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Beedie hosts HootSuite CEO Ryan Holmes
Sep 27, 2012
Ryan Holmes, founder and CEO of social media management system HootSuite, sat in front of a live audience at Simon Fraser University’s Beedie School of Business on September 27 to share his experience as head of one of Canada’s largest tech start-ups. The event was part of the Beedie School of Business’ partnership with prominent Vancouver radio station CKNW, which sees SFU’s downtown Vancouver campus play host to “The Chief Executives”, a series of live more »More...
Ryan Beedie: Independent Spirit
Sep 21, 2012
A historic and record-setting $22 million gift from alumnus Ryan Beedie and his father Keith underscores Ryan’s longstanding relationship with Simon Fraser University and the Beedie School of Business. — On February 11, 2011, when Ryan Beedie and his father Keith made a record $22 million gift to Simon Fraser University’s business school, a bold statement was made not only about the future of the newly-named Beedie School of Business, but also about the school’s more »More...
Beedie School of Business set to host CKNW CEO Series
Sep 4, 2012
The Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University is partnering with prominent Vancouver radio station CKNW News Talk 980 to bring some of British Columbia’s top business minds – ranging from the president of Lululemon Athletica to the founder of HootSuite – to SFU in a forthcoming series of exclusive CEO interviews. “The Chief Executives”, a series profiling some of the country’s top executives, will be held at SFU Vancouver. Hosted by CKNW host more »More...
SFU student swaps professional football for an MBA
Aug 1, 2012
With the Canadian Football League season back in full swing, one of its former stars is embarking on a new chapter in his life. Javier Glatt has swapped locker rooms, training sessions and footballs for lecture rooms, study sessions and books. After eight years of playing pro football as a linebacker for the CFL’s BC Lions and Edmonton Eskimos, Glatt is now in the final stages of the MBA program at Simon Fraser University’s Beedie more »More...
BC Business: Carolyn Egri on the case for more social entrepreneurship
Jul 16, 2012
The following article was published by BC Business on July 3, 2012. Traditional sources of revenue for charities are drying up, but putting society’s biggest issues in the hands of socially minded entrepreneurs is a tricky business. On the cheery, yellow walls of the Downtown Eastside’s Potluck Café are the faces of several of its customers, captured in a black-and-white instant. Their complicated eyes and the deep lines in their faces tell sad stories of more »More...
Work-study abroad sets business students apart
Jul 13, 2012
The following article was published by The Globe and Mail on July 12. As a third-year commerce student at Simon Fraser University’s Beedie School of Business, Marcel Glaesser spent an academic semester at the University of Mannheim last year. After completing his studies in Germany, he decided to stay longer and landed a six-month contract with BMW in Munich. “The coolest thing is that I got to do so many things,” he recalls, citing marketing-related assignments more »More...
Internet start-up an early winner for SFU student and colleagues
Jul 12, 2012
The following article was published by The Vancouver Sun on July 11, 2012. VANCOUVER — Last month it was Silicon Valley, next week it’s New York and after that – the world? Penyo Pal, a mobile app project by a group of Canadian university students including Jessica Fan of Simon Fraser University, is one of the leading entries in a national program called The Next 36 that’s helping to develop the business skills of 36 more »More...
BC Business: David Thomas on the economics of embracing workplace diversity
Jul 10, 2012
The following article was published by BC Business on July 3, 2012. When John Rose, CEO of Nuheat Industries Ltd. in Richmond, learned that the mother of a Sudanese employee had suffered a stroke and the man had not seen her in years, he arranged to fly the employee home. When the executive asked what Singa – the man’s remote village of 3,500 people in the Sudan – needed, his employee told him: a well. more »More...
Students create a recipe for success
Jul 6, 2012
The following article was published by Burnaby Now on July 6, 2012. Two Simon Fraser University students have created a business where immigrant women host cooking classes; gaining work experience while sharing their cultures. Surrey resident Chantelle Buffie and New Westminster’s Sonam Swarup – both in their early 20s – came up with Fusion Kitchen in a social entrepreneurship class at SFU. “It was just natural for us to gravitate towards working with immigrant women. more »More...
SFU Beedie PhD alumnus on the appetite for business education in China
Jul 6, 2012
The following article was published by The Globe and Mail on July 5, 2012. Unlike in North America where students typically look like they want to leave 10 minutes before the scheduled end of a class, in Beijing Majid Ghorbani’s lectures often run 10 minutes overtime, or longer. “Students in China can’t seem to get enough. They make me feel like they really want to learn,” says the recently transplanted Vancouverite, now an assistant professor more »More...