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Hub International’s Tina Osen kicks off fall CKNW CEO Series
Oct 1, 2013
Why would a leading insurance organization look to McDonalds, Starbucks and Ikea for potential employees? Tina Osen, President and CEO of global insurance brokerage HUB International revealed the answer, along with other fascinating management insights, in the first interview of the fall 2013 series of CKNW 980’s “The Chief Executives”. The event is the result of an ongoing partnership between the Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University and prominent Vancouver radio station CKNW more »More...
First Nations need to share in B.C.’s future resource boom
Oct 1, 2013
The following article was published by The Vancouver Sun on October 1, 2013 By Mark Selman, Program Director, EMBA in Aboriginal Business and Leadership, Beedie School of Business. The biggest challenge and opportunity facing British Columbia is reconciliation, or the development of respectful relationships and equality between Aboriginal Peoples and the rest of British Columbians. This is not only a social and an ethical challenge and opportunity, it is also an economic challenge and opportunity more »More...
Financial Post: Teaching women to be more confident about their achievements
Sep 26, 2013
The following article was published in the Financial Post on September 25, 2013. Colleen Collins likes to illustrate the difference between men and women moving up the executive ranks with an anecdote. “If a woman sees a job with 12 requirements, and she can meet 10 of them, she won’t think she’s qualified to apply. But a man with only two of [the 12] skills believes he is,” says the former associate dean for Simon more »More...
Vancity wins Nancy McKinstry Corporate Diversity award
Sep 25, 2013
Vancity was today announced as the winner of the Simon Fraser University Nancy McKinstry award for leadership in diversity. The SFU Beedie School of Business Corporate Diversity award recognizes an organization that exemplifies the values of diversity in the workplace. Vancity, Canada’s largest community credit union, was recognized for its commitment to diversity, in particular their extensive community efforts, and their well-rounded approach to addressing the needs of the different identity groups. The award was presented to more »More...
RADIUS hosts first-ever Social Entrepreneur Failure Wake
Sep 20, 2013
RADIUS, the Beedie School of Business’ interdisciplinary social innovation lab and venture incubator, has teamed with Vancity to co-host British Columbia’s first-ever Social Entrepreneur Failure Wake, a celebration of the failures and mistakes made by entrepreneurs trying to accomplish great things. The Social Entrepreneur Failure Wake has been organized in order to build an entrepreneurial community that celebrates audacious attempts, with mistakes and failures shared openly in order for others to learn from the experience. more »More...
Beedie set to welcome back CKNW’s CEO Series
Sep 17, 2013
The Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University will this fall team once again with prominent Vancouver radio station CKNW News Talk 980 to bring management and entrepreneurship insights from some of Canada’s leading business minds to the SFU community. “The Chief Executives” program will bring a selection of the country’s top executives – ranging from outdoor equipment retailer Mountain Equipment Co-op to international gold extraction giant Goldcorp – to SFU’s downtown Vancouver campus more »More...
Higher learning offered in Surrey city centre by Beedie School of Business
Sep 6, 2013
The following article was published by BC Business on September 3, 2013. The Surrey campus opens its doors to the city’s first graduate business program. After years of asking for more local business programs, Surrey will see its first MBA program launch in January. The part-time degree was created for SFU’s Surrey campus after years of consulting with local business organizations and businesses themselves, according to Colleen Collins, associate dean of the Segal Graduate School more »More...
Beedie professor Mark Selman honoured by Industry Council for Aboriginal Business
Sep 3, 2013
The following is an excerpt from the full article published in The Globe and Mail on August 30, 2013. A professor at Simon Fraser University’s Beedie School of Business has been honoured for his work on indigenous issues. Prof. Mark Selman developed Beedie’s Executive MBA in Indigenous Business and Leadership in consultation with First Nation, Metis and Inuit leaders, with the program`s first class of 25 students scheduled to graduate in spring, 2015. The program, more »More...
Business school scholarships offered to LGBTQ community
Aug 27, 2013
The following is an excerpt from the full article published in The Globe and Mail on August 2, 2013. Building on an established relationship with those who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) – and others who are their advocates – HSBC Bank Canada has established new scholarships at four Canadian business schools worth $80,000 and potential employment over the next four years. The announcement comes on the eve of the Vancouver more »More...
EMBA in Aboriginal Business and Leadership boosts First Nations postsecondary enrollment
Aug 26, 2013
The following article was published by The Georgia Straight on August 21, 2013. When Eldon Yellowhorn attended Simon Fraser University in the early 1990s, he was one of two First Nations graduate students, and he says he was among fewer than a dozen indigenous people enrolled at the institution. Now the chair of the department of First Nations studies at SFU, Yellowhorn notes that a lot has changed since then. The university now has more more »More...