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Media Matters – SFU Business in the News – Dec. 3, 2010
Dec 9, 2010
How SFU Business fared in the news for the week ending December 3, 2010. Foreign Acquisitions SFU adjunct business professor Steven Globerman had an opinion piece published in the Financial Post about how the term, “strategic asset,” has no obvious meaning when applied to foreign takeovers. Full story: http://at.sfu.ca/QmTUPO B.C. Politics “Good bloody luck” is the response SFU marketing expert Lindsay Meredith gave to 24 Hours when asked to pick a front-runner in the leadership race. “This could go any more »More...
Student Matias Marquez launches digital gift card technology in time for Christmas
Dec 7, 2010
December 6, 2010 Calling all shoppers: gift-giving options are expanding through Buyatab.com, an online gift card company co-created by Simon Fraser University student Matias Marquez. Buyatab.com has joined forces with Cactus Club Cafe and Squirrel Systems to provide instant gift giving technology through the restaurant’s various online channels, just in time for the 2010 holiday season. Online and mobile shoppers can now instantly give a gift card for the restaurant chain with the simultaneous launch more »More...
National Post’s Young Entrepreneur spotlight shines on BBA ’05 Shawn Smith
Dec 7, 2010
December 4, 2010 Name: Shawn Smith (30) (SFU BBA ’05) Business Name: Global Agents Global Agents was founded by a group of young professionals, students and social change agents from Vancouver, Canada. Launched in 2006, the same year Muhammad Yunus received a Nobel Prize for his pioneering efforts in microcredit, the organization was founded to engage a generation in supporting innovative solutions to global poverty. Global Agents’ launch project saw 21 young people cycling 3000 more »More...
Projects go over time, over budget but deliver better value: SFU Business study
Dec 3, 2010
by Bill Goodwin, Computer Weekly.com IT projects are taking longer than planned and are running further over-budget, but are delivering better value to the business, early results from a major study that includes research from SFU Business Professor Blaize Reich reveal. Initial findings from the study by a team of international researchers suggest organisations are prioritising the need for IT projects to deliver sound business benefits over the need to deliver on-time and to budget. more »More...
Business students get creative with Christmas
Dec 1, 2010
Contact: Jennifer Beale, 778.782.7587 Marianne Meadahl, PAMR, 778.782.4323;marianne_meadahl@sfu.ca December 1, 2010 Fourth-year marketing students at Simon Fraser University’s Surrey campus will join with community crafters in peddling their own creative wares at the annual Christmas Market on the Mezzanine Dec. 2, 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. But this year, a group of first-year business counterparts is also getting in on the act. Taking up a challenge from faculty coordinator Jennifer Beale, who is working with more »More...
Media Matters – SFU Business in the News – November 26, 2010
Nov 29, 2010
How SFU Business fared in the news for the week ending November 26, 2010. BC Liberal Leadership Gary Mauser, SFU Business prof emeritus, was on the national news on CBC Radio talking about the change in leadership of the B.C. Liberal party. “When premiers or politicians stay beyond the applause, they risk an ugly exit and that’s exactly what Campbell has done.” Power of Oprah Two Vancouver companies received a huge boost after talk-show maven Oprah more »More...
New research makes the case for customizing service
Nov 22, 2010
November 22, 2010 Shakespeare famously argued that “all the world’s a stage, and all the men and women are merely players.” Similarly, new research from SFU Business uses the metaphor of service experiences as theoretical performances, to explain how employees (the actors) follow or write the scripts for customers (the audience) to consume. The future of service industries lies in customization – at least for those companies catering to the increasingly fickle tastes of today’s more »More...
Shaheen Hirji – Alumni Profile
Nov 18, 2010
BA (Cmns) ’99, GDBA ’03 Founder, Organically Hatched Many new or expecting mothers face a reality they hadn’t previously considered: “I’ve met many moms who feel that the workplace doesn’t allow for the flexibility needed in being a mom. At the same time these women are experts and professionals in their field and don’t want to give up their skills and education to be a stay at home mom.” Shaheen Hirji, BA ’99, GDBA ’03, more »More...
Management of Technology MBAs establish fund to honour memory of classmate and friend Cecelia Suragh
Nov 17, 2010
November 15, 2010 The establishment of a new fund for Management of Technology MBA students at Simon Fraser University will remember a very special member of the 2009 class. Cecelia Suragh, a Management of Technology (Biotechnology) MBA candidate, passed away suddenly on June 16, 2010 at the age of 31. As those within the SFU Business community will attest to, she was a much-admired student, classmate and friend. She was young and full of life, more »More...
Classroom project sends MBAs on viral video adventure
Nov 17, 2010
November 17, 2010 Six MBA students at Simon Fraser University have gained some valuable business insights after their class project went viral on YouTube. As part of their MBA class Marketing 702, taught by Professor Leyland Pitt, the SFU Business students were challenged to create an online video to spoof an existing product or company. The video — by students Michelle Au, Ken Lee, Shell Lau, Weijia Liu, Allan Olson and Tina Sun – is more »More...