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SFU Beedie’s CaseIT thrives in first online edition
Mar 12, 2021
The student organizing committee behind CaseIT, the leading international case competition focusing on management information systems (MIS), faced a daunting challenge as they planned the 2021 event. The competition attracts top business students from high-calibre business schools all over the world to compete and network with one another in close collaboration. With international travel and in-person meetings impossible, the organizers were sent back to the drawing board with no precedent to follow, as they created more »More...
SFU cleans up at the 2021 BC Cleantech Awards
Mar 12, 2021
Simon Fraser University received multiple accolades at the 2021 BC Cleantech Awards, which was hosted online this year by Foresight Cleantech Accelerator Centre in February. SFU was honoured as the 2021 Top Education Institute. Elicia Maine, special advisor on innovation to SFU’s vice-president, research and international; and the VanDusen professor of innovation and entrepreneurship at the Beedie School of Business, took home 2021 Top Educator honours. The Top Educator award recognizes Maine’s work in taking an innovative and leading approach more »More...
SFU Beedie and the Vancouver Economic Commission launch new industry-academia research lab
Mar 5, 2021
The Vancouver Economic Commission (VEC) and Simon Fraser University’s Beedie School of Business (SFU Beedie) today launched the Economic Transformation Lab (ETL), a platform for collaboration between industry and academia that researches the seismic trends anticipated to impact Vancouver’s economy in the coming decades. The program’s objective is to develop actionable goals, programs, or insights that shape policy advocacy and will help future-proof Vancouver against these trends. “The Economic Transformation Lab builds on VEC’s foundational more »More...
SFU Beedie successfully renews prestigious AACSB accreditation
Feb 3, 2021
SFU’s Beedie School of Business has succeeded in earning renewed accreditation from AACSB International, the world’s largest business education alliance, for another five-year period. AACSB’s accreditation is highly prestigious, and the extended recognition places SFU Beedie alongside the world’s best business schools, including Harvard Business School, Yale School of Management and London Business School. SFU Beedie also holds the respected EQUIS accreditation from EFMD, making it one of less than one percent of business schools more »More...
SFU Beedie undergraduates triumph in major case competition
Jan 28, 2021
A team of undergraduates at SFU’s Beedie School of Business delivered another outstanding performance at the JDC West case competition, the most prestigious event of its kind in Western Canada, to be named both School of the Year and Academic School of the Year. JDC West has run since 2006, bringing together around 600 undergraduate delegates from the leading business schools across BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba to compete in a range of disciplines, including more »More...
SFU Beedie partners with Vancouver Economic Commission to produce affordability guide
Dec 17, 2020
SFU’s Beedie School of Business has collaborated with the Vancouver Economic Commission (VEC) to produce an affordability guide for businesses and professionals seeking information about relocating to the Vancouver area. While affordability and cost of living in Vancouver is a much-discussed topic, finding reliable and comprehensive data has historically been a challenge. SFU Beedie professor Andrey Pavlov has worked with VEC’s team to collate a large amount of data from a variety of sources, presenting it in more »More...
Ali Dastmalchian Memorial Fund honours late SFU Beedie dean’s memory
Dec 14, 2020
SFU’s Beedie School of Business has launched the Ali Dastmalchian Memorial Fund, an endowment that will support international learning experiences for the school’s students. The fund honours the memory of Ali Dastmalchian, the school’s late dean, who was a passionate supporter of international education and cross-cultural understanding. Under Dastmalchian’s leadership, SFU Beedie adopted a new vision statement, including a focus on helping students to develop a global perspective, which continues to guide the school’s strategy more »More...
SFU’s largest gift creates unprecedented scholarship to empower equity-deserving students
Dec 8, 2020
Simon Fraser University is pleased to announce that alumnus Lance Uggla and his family are committing $34.1 million to support 10 exceptional undergraduate students per year to study at SFU. This is the largest gift ever received in the university’s history and the largest gift of its kind ever given to a Canadian university. The gift will establish the Uggla Family Scholarship for students who may not otherwise be able to afford a university education more »More...
SFU Beedie welcomes virtual international exchange students
Nov 26, 2020
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, international travel was one of the first activities to be halted. That created a challenge for the Office of International Programs (OIP) at SFU’s Beedie School of Business, which oversees international student exchange—but also an opportunity to try something new. Helping students to develop a global perspective is a core pillar of SFU Beedie’s mission, and the team wasn’t willing to give up on offering international students the experience of more »More...
Winners named in first virtual i2I Venture Pitch competition
Nov 5, 2020
The annual i2I Venture Pitch Competition went ahead in a virtual format for the first time this year, as scientist-entrepreneurs graduating from the Invention to Innovation program at SFU’s Beedie School of Business pitched their research-based innovation ideas to a panel of judges with science commercialization, seed investment, and legal expertise. The year long, part-time Invention to Innovation (i2I) program develops entrepreneurial mindset in graduate scientists and engineers and enables them to create and commercialize solutions more »More...