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Canadian Universities Sweep 10th International CaseIT Competition
Feb 26, 2013
The following article was published by the CIO Association of Canada “The Future of Canadian IT is in Good Hands.” For the first time since its inception in 2004, the International CaseIT competition, hosted annually by MIS (Management Information Students) at Simon Fraser University’s Beedie School of Business, and co-sponsored by the CIO Association of Canada – Vancouver Chapter, three Canadian teams have captured all three podium spots. This year’s sixteen qualifying teams hailed from more »More...
Beedie Senior Lecturer Anne Macdonald wins SFU Excellence in Teaching Award
Feb 21, 2013
Anne Macdonald, a senior lecturer of accounting at the Beedie School of Business, has been named recipient of Simon Fraser University’s 2012 Excellence in Teaching Award, the highest honour of its kind awarded to faculty at the university. The Excellence in Teaching award is presented annually to three teachers from across the university who possess the ability to stimulate students creatively and critically, are enthusiastic about student learning and innovation in teaching, are able to more »More...
Nelson Lah named Chair of Beedie’s Business Technology Management Advisory Board
Feb 7, 2013
The Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University has announced the appointment of Nelson Lah, Partner and Director of leading IT and business process services provider CGI, as Chair of the Business Technology Management (BTM) Advisory Board. Lah has a history of strategic leadership, innovative approaches, mentorship, and community-university service. Before joining CGI, he worked as Chief Technology Officer and Executive Director at the BC Ministry of Citizens’ Services. The BTM certificate is aimed more »More...
SFU establishes academic partnership with Canadian entrepreneurship program The Next 36
Feb 7, 2013
Simon Fraser University has become an official academic partner of The Next 36, Canada’s leading undergraduate entrepreneurship development program. The partnership further solidifies SFU’s reputation as a Canadian leader in fostering entrepreneurship and innovation, and for developing the next generation of founders and leaders of new ventures. As academic partner of The Next 36, SFU will support the organization’s vision of increasing Canadian prosperity through the creation of high impact entrepreneurs, and encourage its top more »More...
Beedie named Academic School of the Year at JDC West
Jan 23, 2013
SFU’s Beedie School of Business captured the Academic School of the Year award at the prestigious JDC West case competition, held from January 18 to 20 at the University of British Columbia, edging out stiff competition from 11 other leading Canadian business schools to claim the title. The Academic School of the Year award is presented to the team which achieves the highest overall finish in the JDC West competition’s ten academic categories. In addition, the more »More...
Dragon’s Den-like B.C. tech contest taps local talent
Jan 18, 2013
The following article was published by the Province on January 17, 2013 BY SAM COOPER, THE PROVINCE Firm’s desalination process making a splash A unique contest for tech startups in B.C. is getting credit for fostering innovation and catalyzing some major success stories. The BCIC New Ventures Competition runs annually from April to September, giving entrants a chance to move through stages to meet a final jury that somewhat resembles the panel of venture capitalists in more »More...
Looking South: Beedie teams up with b-schools in Brazil, Mexico and the U.S. to offer Americas MBA
Dec 14, 2012
By Remy Scalza On a Sunday evening in late August, 53 business executives from as far as São Paulo, Brazil, and as near as Delta, B.C., gathered in the Bill Reid Gallery in downtown Vancouver. In the shadow of totem poles, they bowed their heads for a welcome song and prayer, feasted on traditional barbecued salmon and marveled at masterworks of aboriginal art. Then, they got down to business: a lecture from a leading legal more »More...
Alumnus Ivan Wong wins CA Canada gold medal
Dec 7, 2012
A recent graduate of the Beedie School of Business has topped the National Honour Roll for the 2012 Uniform Evaluation (UFE) in Western Canada. Ivan Wong, having completed his BBA degree in accounting with first class honours in June 2012, has earned the Chartered Accountants of Canada Gold Medal and cash prize of $2,500 for the highest standing in Western Canada. A current articling student with KPMG in Vancouver, Wong has achieved an impressive 4.26 more »More...
MBA connection plants seeds for Saltworks founders
Nov 30, 2012
The following article was published by the Financial Post on November 27, 2012. BY DENISE DEVEAU, FINANCIAL POST MBA programs build entrepreneurs’ bonds Since graduating from the Richard Ivey School of Business’s Certificate in Entrepreneurship program in 2006, Bill Hennessey has opened a number of ventures, including an online lobster company, a cleaning products packaging operation and an experiential marketing firm. In fact, he’s a true dyed-in-the-wool entrepreneur having run his first “business” at the more »More...
Fusion Kitchen wins BC social innovation competition
Nov 28, 2012
A Beedie School of Business student social enterprise start-up has been selected as one of three university project winners in new province-wide community engagement competition, BC Ideas. The start-up, Fusion Kitchen, was chosen in the BC Ideas University Solutions Investment category, for putting forth an idea which creates positive social impact in BC communities. Fusion Kitchen employs immigrant women to lead cooking classes, in the process sharing their food and cultures, while learning transferable skills more »More...