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Marketing Project Pays Offs
Jul 26, 2008
A case analysis prepared by five of SFU’s full-time MBA students entitled: “Selling the Canadian Armed Forces Brand to Canada’s Youth” received the Pearson Education Prize for the Best Case Study on the case track of the 2008 Academy of Marketing Conference, the UK’s largest academic marketing conference.More...
SFU Students Weather the Investment Storm
Jul 25, 2008
Operating within a volatile economic climate, SFU’s Global Asset and Wealth Management MBA (GAWM), Master of Financial Risk Management (MFRM), and business undergrad students were able to test their mettle and showcase their risk management and decision making skills in generating a positive annual return in the 2007 Redefining Investment Strategy Education (RISE) Forum, held at the University of Dayton.More...
Working in Partnership with Other Nations
Jul 14, 2008
SFU Represented at Worldwide Business Competition Sixty-six teams comprised of seven contestants in four countries went head to head at the 2008 Global Enterprise Experience, an international business competition aimed at developing skills in managing across cultures, time zones, world views and levels of wealth and poverty.More...
SFU Graduates to Appear in CBC Program “Dragons’ Den”
Jul 8, 2008
Sliced Tomatoes, Vancouver’s first ready-to-cook meal delivery service, will be vying for investments from an illustrious panel of savvy Canadian venture capitalists on Season Three of the CBC television program “The Dragons’ Den.”More...
BC Innovation Council Awards BC MBA Access to Commercialization Scholarships
Jul 3, 2008
The BC Innovation Council has awarded 10 graduate business students from Simon Fraser University with BC MBA Access to Commercialization Scholarships (valued at up to $15,000).More...
UNITED NATIONS PRINCIPLES FOR RESPONSIBLE INVESTING AT SEGAL
Mar 12, 2008
On March 12, 2008, the CIBC Centre for Corporate Governance and Risk Management, in collaboration with the Shareholders Association for Research and Education, hosted a breakfast for 150 at SFU’s Segal Graduate School of Business, to hear representatives from three organizations speak about the UN-initiated Principles of Responsible Investing (PRI). The speaker panel consisted of Donald McDonald, a trustee with British Telecom Pension Plan; David Russell, Co-head of Responsible Investing for the Universities Superannuation Scheme more »More...
Adam Cotterall Nominated as “Rising Star” by BC HRMA
Feb 28, 2008
Adam Cotterall, Associate Director at the Learning Strategies Group, was nominated as a finalist for the annual British Columbia Human Resources Management Association (BC HRMA) “Rising Star Award”. Please join us in congratulating Adam. More informationMore...
XBRL International Conference
Dec 3, 2007
December 3 – 6, 2007 Vancouver, Canada XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) is an XML-based, royalty-free, open standard for business reporting. XBRL was developed by XBRL International, a not-for-profit consortium of over 400 leading companies and organisations around the world.More...
EIASM 4TH WORKSHOP ON CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
Nov 15, 2007
BRUSSELS, NOVEMBER 15-16, 2007 The first workshop, which took place November 4-5, 2004 in Brussels with participants from 21 countries dealt mainly with the challenges of corporate governance in the context of social, political and economic environments prevailing in different parts of the world. The second workshop took place November 24-25, 2005 with participants from 23 countries addressed international aspects of corporate governance. The third workshop with participants from 26 countries addressed recent developments in more »More...
Faculty Kudos
Jul 1, 2007
SFU’s new tagline “Thinking of the World” is reinforced by what the world thinks of our faculty. Here’s what some of them are up to:More...