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Ryan Beedie among special guests at 2011 SFU BASS Banquet
Mar 2, 2011
March 2, 2011 Ryan Beedie, who recently made the largest gift to Simon Fraser University, will be a special guest and speaker at this year’s student-organized BASS Banquet on March 9. Along with his father Keith, Ryan Beedie, an alumnus of SFU’s business school, donated $22 million to his alma mater — which will now be named the Beedie School of Business. SFU will use the gift to create an endowment supporting students, professorships and more »More...
SFU recognizes outstanding alumni
Feb 28, 2011
Familiar faces to SFU’s Beedie School of Business, both nationally and internationally, were the recipients of the 2010 SFU Outstanding Alumni Awards. Jim Chu and Alan Rugman were recently honoured during an awards dinner at the Four Seasons Hotel Vancouver earlier this month. The recipients have made their marks in the categories of Public Service and Academic Achievement: Public Service Jim Chu, who completed Bachelor of Business Administration in 1986 at Simon Fraser University, is more »More...
Hiring: gut feelings or hard numbers? SFU Beedie’s Michael Brydon and Peter Tingling weigh in
Feb 28, 2011
Mike Brydon and Peter Tingling are decision theory specialists at Simon Fraser University’s Faculty of Business, and they have a question they like to ask when giving presentations to senior management groups, especially to human resources managers. “How many here have taken golf lessons to improve their game?” A lot of hands go up. Then they ask: “How many have had instruction to improve their decision making?” No one raises a hand because, as Brydon more »More...
Creative Consumers: What’s your stance?
Feb 22, 2011
The following is an excerpt from Ian McCarthy’s blog entitled It Depends: A few years back I wrote a paper with colleagues (Pierre Berthon, Leyland Pitt and Stephen Kates) on the phenomenon of creative consumers. These are individuals, or communities of individuals, who adapt or modify a proprietary product offering. They tinker and experiment with almost any product, ranging from automobiles to cell phones. Traditionally, companies have disliked consumers messing with their products. They have got annoyed more »More...
SFU Beedie students launch The Big Book Drive to improve youth literacy
Feb 22, 2011
Richmond, BC – Three Simon Fraser University students – Joseph Choi, Alex Venetis and Steffi Chua – have organized a book drive named “The BIG Book Drive” to collect books for the Salvation Army. Started by SFU Beedie School of Business project management students, the team aims to collect 2,000 books over the next five weeks with two separate book drives happening in both Richmond and Burnaby. The first book drive will take place on more »More...
Record $22-million donation establishes Beedie School of Business at SFU
Feb 9, 2011
Contacts: Ryan & Keith Beedie: Contact Mat Wilcox, 604.828.7007; mwilcox@wilcoxgroup.com Andrew Petter, SFU President, 604.808.6530; petter@sfu.ca Daniel Shapiro, Dean of SFU Business, 778.782.4183; daniel_shapiro@sfu.ca Derek Moscato, Director, Marketing and Communications, SFU Business, 604.671.4567; derek_moscato@sfu.ca Don MacLachlan, PAMR, 604.763.3929; donmac@sfu.ca February 9, 2011 Ryan and Keith Beedie have donated $22 million to Ryan’s alma mater—SFU Business, which will now be named the Beedie School of Business. This is the largest gift that Simon Fraser University has more »More...
Media Matters – SFU Business in the News – February 4, 2011
Feb 7, 2011
How SFU Business fared in the news for the week ending February 4, 2011. Bauer Goes Public Strong brand power in Canada should make hockey-equipment Bauer a popular buy when the company goes public, said SFU marketing expert Lindsay Meredith. “The advantage of that kind of a market – and this doesn’t apply to a lot of products out there – is that if you get these kids hooked at a young age … that will more »More...
Turning checkmate into a business winner
Feb 1, 2011
Contact: Maxim Doroshenko, 604.565.3319; maxim_doroshenko@sfu.ca Carol Thorbes, PAMR, 778.782.3035; cthorbes@sfu.ca January 31, 2011 Maxim Doroshenko, a Simon Fraser University student who is as strategic in making career moves as he is in playing chess, tied for first-place in the 2011 B.C. Active Chess Championship. The B.C. Chess Federation hosts the annual competition — one of the top provincial chess showdowns — in Vancouver in January. Ending a 15-year hiatus from the world of bishops, knights more »More...
Business News Network kicks off search for best new entrepreneur by interviewing SFU’s Terry Beech
Jan 25, 2011
In the first of an ongoing series BNN speaks to Terry Beech: CEO of the crowd-sourcing company, hiretheworld.com. Click here to watch the interview.More...
Media Matters – SFU Business in the News – January 21, 2011
Jan 24, 2011
How SFU Business fared in the news for the week ending January 21, 2011. Support Local Businesses It’s important to shop local, SFU marketing expert Lindsay Meredith told the Burnaby NewsLeader, otherwise small businesses will disappear. “If you don’t supply some business to your local business infrastructure, that basically means that store is not going to be there when you do decide you want it,” he said. Full story: http://at.sfu.ca/cbDqCA Violence on the River Glenn Sigurdson with SFU more »More...