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Call for Nominations for 2010 SFU Nancy McKinstry Awards for Leadership in Diversity
May 17, 2010
The 2010 SFU Nancy McKinstry Awards for Leadership in Diversity is issuing a call for nominations for the Corporate Diversity Award. Nominations are open to all companies with operations in British Columbia, and recognizes one that excels in the area of diversity. Nominees will be measured against the attached Nomination Criteria by the Awards Selection Committee, appointed by the University. Nominees are encouraged to provide examples of their accomplishments for each of the Objectives listed more »More...
SFU Business professor Leyland Pitt wins American Marketing Association Innovation in Education Marketing prize
May 10, 2010
Leyland Pitt, Professor of Marketing in the Faculty of Business Administration at Simon Fraser University, has been awarded the 2010 Pearson Prentice Hall Solomon-Marshall-Stuart Award for Innovative Excellence in Marketing Education. The teaching prize is given annually by the American Marketing Association (AMA). Pitt won for his marketing classroom proposal entitled “Case Teaching in the Age of Technological Sophistication.” The competition was open to full-time marketing educators who are also members of the AMA, and more »More...
SFU Business undergrads win big at Apex 2010 Case Competition
May 10, 2010
Singapore— An undergraduate team from SFU Business has garnered a top prize at one of Asia’s most prestigious business school competitions. The SFU team – consisting of students Awin Ye, Matt Baril and William Trudeau – was awarded “Most Innovative Solution” at the Apex Global 2010 Case Competition, held last week in Singapore. APEX Global is an annual international undergraduate business IT case competition hosted by Singapore Management University. A total of 24 teams from more »More...
SFU’s Learning Strategies Group Helps to Facilitate Leadership Exchange
May 6, 2010
Working with the Industry Council for Aboriginal Business (ICAB), SFU’s Learning Strategies Group helped to put together a leadership exchange where four B.C. CEOs and four First Nations chiefs were paired up, and each leader spent a few days at his or her partner’s workplace. To read the complete BC Business article, click here.More...
Lessons From the Financial Crisis: Governance Gaps and Strategies for the Future
May 5, 2010
Presented by SFU CIBC Centre for Corporate Governance and Risk Management and the Shareholder Association for Research & Education Join presenters: Damon Silvers Director of Policy and Special Counsel for the AFL-CIO and Edward Waitzer Jarislowsky-Dimma-Mooney Chair in Corporate Governance at the Schulich School of Business and Osgoode Hall Law School and Senior Partner at Stikeman Elliott LLP With Moderator Robert Adamson SFU CIBC Centre for Corporate Governance and Risk Management For a discussion on more »More...
Bjorn Stigson, President of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, to visit SFU Business on May 10
May 3, 2010
The China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED) Project Presents BUSINESS AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT – THE GREEN RACE IS ON BJORN STIGSON President, World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), Geneva MONDAY, MAY 10, 2010, 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm Room 1300, SFU Segal Graduate School of Business 500 Granville Street, Vancouver The WBCSD is a CEO-led, global association of some 200 international corporations committed to providing business leadership as a catalyst more »More...
Media Matters – SFU Business in the News – April 23
Apr 27, 2010
How SFU Business fared in the news for the week ending April 23, 2010. BC News Two SFU profs were quoted in a story on the news-and-commentary website of TheTyee.ca. It wondered why BC Hydro had paid for a Vancouver hotel room for Energy Minister Blair Lekstrom during the 2010 Winter Olympics—then billed his ministry after TheTyee asked about it. “The general rule would be that if the minister was performing business on behalf of more »More...
Media Matters – SFU Business in the News – April 16
Apr 16, 2010
How SFU Business fared in the news for the week ending April 16, 2010. BC News Business in Vancouver carried a full-page story on how Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal business celebrated a leadership exchange program aimed at reconciling decades of mistrust between industry and First Nations. “In partnership with Simon Fraser University’s (SFU) Segal Graduate School of Business, the Industry Council for Aboriginal Business (ICAB) placed six corporate executives and aboriginal leaders in each other’s seats more »More...
Exchange Program finds Common Ground for Business and Aboriginal Leaders
Apr 15, 2010
Industry Executives and First Nations chiefs switch seats to improve inter‐cultural understanding. By Joel McKay Aboriginal and business leaders gathered in downtown Vancouver recently to celebrate a leadership exchange program aimed at reconciling decades of mistrust between industry and First Nations. In partnership with Simon Fraser University’s (SFU) Segal Graduate School of Business, the Industry Council for Aboriginal Business (ICAB) placed six corporate executives and Aboriginal leaders in each other’s seats for several days last more »More...
Business Undergrads Clean Up
Apr 12, 2010
A team of SFU undergraduate business students won the BC Clean Ventures competition last month at UBC. The competition is the first and only event of its kind in Canada, at which participants solve real-world clean-technology issues by developing green-business venture ideas, presenting them to teams of investors and negotiating financing. The SFU Business team of finance and accounting students—Jamie MacDonald, Kevin Nguyen, Jeremy Poon and Kevin Wang—beat out 34 other teams comprised of 132 more »More...