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Media Matters – SFU Business in the News – June 4
Jun 7, 2010
How SFU Business fared in the news for the week ending June 4, 2010. BC News The Vancouver Sun reported a dip in real estate prices and sales in the Fraser Valley. “Andrey Pavlov, a business professor at Simon Fraser University, said this spring’s slowdown in the Fraser Valley has not been particularly startling considering . . . developers (last year) stopped building new homes and possible vendors of existing homes became reluctant to sell just more »More...
Accelerating Social Innovation highlights faculty research and industry impact from SFU Business
Jun 7, 2010
The Faculty of Business Administration at Simon Fraser University has produced Accelerating Social Innovation, an externally-focused booklet that provides research and analysis from SFU Business researchers – in the realm of sustainability, corporate social responsibility (CSR), and business ethics. Produced as part of SFU Business’ sponsorship of the Business in Vancouver Colour Series (Green edition: Sustainability), held this year at SFU’s Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue, Accelerating Social Innovation offers insights into a number more »More...
SFU Business names Leyland Pitt to Dennis F. Culver EMBA Alumni Professorship
Jun 1, 2010
Leyland Pitt, Professor of Marketing in the Faculty of Business Administration at Simon Fraser University, has been appointed as the Dennis F. Culver EMBA Alumni Professor. Dennis Culver, who passed away on February 7, 2010, graduated from the first class of Executive MBAs at SFU, where he forged an enduring relationship with the institution. The EMBA alumni endowment – a fund Culver helped establish – created the EMBA professorship for which he is named. “Leyland more »More...
Kaplan’s Business School Insider – July 8 at Segal Graduate School of Business
May 31, 2010
At this free event, learn about business school first-hand from admissions officers and MBA alumni! A panel of experts will cover insider tips on the application process and discuss business career opportunities. The event will include a business school fair with representation from Vancouver-area and national business schools. Date: Thursday, July 8th Location: Segal Graduate School of Business – 500 Granville St, Vancouver, BC Event Agenda 5:30pm – 6:30pm – MBA Program Fair and Networking more »More...
Media Matters – SFU Business in the News – May 28
May 31, 2010
How SFU Business fared in the news for the week ending May 28, 2010. National and World News The Canadian Press reported on a study from SFU Business prof Peter Tingling that found rich NHL clubs don’t necessarily draft better. “The conclusions of Tingling and co-researcher Kamal Masri aren’t going to make NHL scouts happy. They conclude being able to spend a lot of money on scouting doesn’t make a team more successful at the more »More...
Executive MBA student takes home “Best Cash Budget” honours
May 31, 2010
SFU Business student Jordan Marr is this year’s winner of the “Best Cash Budget” competition, part of the Bus653 Managerial Accounting course in the Segal Graduate School’s Executive MBA program. The course is one of two at SFU Business allowing selected EMBA potential and recent graduates to partake in the CMA Executive Student Program. Marr, who will earn his EMBA this term, is no stranger to success in accounting. When taking the accounting component of more »More...
SFU Business Alumnus Awarded Action Canada Fellowship
May 27, 2010
Seventeen exceptional Canadians have been selected as the 2010/2011 Action Canada Fellows. They include SFU Business alumnus Terry Beech as well a physicist, a neuroscientist, a nurse and a First Nations management consultant. Selected to join Action Canada’s prestigious 11-month leadership development and public policy program, the 17 new Fellows will attend six working conferences across Canada, work on public policy projects and learn from mentors who are current leaders in government, business, academia and more »More...
SSHRC and NSERC Grants Awarded to SFU Business Faculty
May 25, 2010
Congratulations to the following members of the SFU Business Faculty on their successful grant applications. NSERC Discovery Grant: Andrew Gemino (User-centred Design of Requirements Engineering Techniques) SSHRC Standard Research Grants: Evan Gatev (The Impact of Pension Fund Governance on Investment Performance and Risk Management) Eric Gedajlovic (The Effects of Top-Management Social Capital on Corporate Entrepreneurship and Internationalization in Developing Economies) Nilesh Saraf (Firm-Performance Impacts of IT Implementation and IT Capabilities) David C. Thomas (Bi-cultural Individuals more »More...
Media Matters – SFU Business in the News – May 21
May 25, 2010
How SFU Business fared in the news for the week ending May 21, 2010. BC News Marketing prof Lindsay Meredith was quoted by The Vancouver Sun in a story about Tiger Woods’ rejection of a $100-million sponsorship deal from an online gambling company that offered to leave him free to be “bad”. Meredith called the proposal “bogus”, and from a company that was simply trying to drum up publicity for itself. He said there’s still more »More...
Global experts dissect investment environment in wake of financial meltdown
May 21, 2010
Vancouver— A leading figure in the fight for financial regulation reform in the United States made his case for sweeping changes to an audience of pension funds managers, institutional investors and business academics at SFU’s Segal Graduate School of Business in downtown Vancouver yesterday. Damon Silvers, the Deputy Chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), argued for broad U.S. legislative introductions in the wake of the global financial crisis more »More...