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Financial services industry and Human Resources leader Zabeen Hirji joins SFU Beedie as Executive in Residence
Mar 3, 2020
Zabeen Hirji (MBA ’94), has been appointed Executive-in-Residence at SFU’s Beedie School of Business where she will share her experience and knowledge with the school’s leadership team and community. Based in Toronto, Hirji is a strategic advisor to business, government and academia, and a director on corporate and not-for-profit boards. In her current role as Executive Advisor, Future of Work at Deloitte, Hirji advises the firm and its clients on the changing nature of work, more »More...
International experience inspired bank chief’s diversity push
Feb 12, 2020
Sandra Stuart (BA ’16), HSBC Canada’s President and CEO, can point to the experience that inspired her to fight for greater diversity and inclusion at the bank. “It was when I went to Brazil, and I recognised the challenges faced by women,” she says. “I was one of the few senior women—there was me and another lady, that was it. And it just struck me like a bolt of lightning: ‘This isn’t right’.” Stuart worked more »More...
SFU Beedie students raise nearly $20,000 for Canadian Cancer Society
Jan 15, 2020
A group of SFU Beedie students raised $19,733 for the Canadian Cancer Society last semester, in an initiative run as part of a project management class at the school. Students enrolled in the Bus 361 Project Management class, taught by Beedie lecturer Dr. Kamal Masri, raised the funds through the 25toLife initiative, a joint project between the class and the Canadian Cancer Society. This is the sixth year that Masri has run the project in the fall more »More...
SFU names Joy Johnson as its 10th president and vice-chancellor
Jan 8, 2020
Following an extensive community consultation and international search process, Simon Fraser University’s Board of Governors has named professor Joy Johnson as the university’s next president and vice-chancellor. Johnson, SFU’s current vice-president, research and international, takes office on September 1, 2020. She succeeds professor Andrew Petter, who completes his term on August 31 after a decade of distinguished service. “Over the course of this competitive process, professor Johnson stood out from other candidates for her depth more »More...
SFU Beedie alumnus takes healthy eating to the great outdoors
Dec 16, 2019
From tree planting in remote areas of BC to pitching his start-up business on CBC’s Dragons’ Den—via the European Union and a stint in corporate banking—Denis Mikhailov’s career path has been anything but orthodox. Mikhailov, a graduate of SFU Beedie’s Full Time MBA program, is the Founder and CEO of Nomad Nutrition Ltd, a venture that creates healthy dehydrated meals aimed at outdoor enthusiasts. A keen climber and adventurer who would take week-long excursions into more »More...
SFU Beedie hosts interdisciplinary analytics hackathon
Dec 9, 2019
Data-savvy students from across Simon Fraser University competed in SFU Beedie School of Business’s fourth annual business analytics hackathon on November 16, 2019. The interdisciplinary competition, sponsored by Vesta Properties, brought together 26 teams of three students to compete in analyzing data and presenting their findings. Of the 78 total students taking part, 32 were business students or business joint majors, while the remaining 46 were from other faculties, studying subjects including statistics, economics, data more »More...
Former advisor to Barack Obama hosts leadership conversation at SFU Surrey
Dec 4, 2019
A former senior advisor to U.S. presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, Betsy Myers recently shared her expertise with an audience of students and the local community at SFU. A renowned leadership expert, author and advocate, she discussed six emerging leadership trends for the 21st century. Myers, who was most recently the chief operating officer of the Obama presidential campaign and chair of Women for Obama, visited SFU’s Surrey campus on November 6. She spoke more »More...
SFU Beedie hosts Indigenous leadership courses
Nov 29, 2019
Leading figures in Indigenous business and politics gathered at the Segal Graduate School in October and November, 2019, for the Indigenous Leadership Series, hosted by Simon Fraser University’s Beedie School of Business. The series comprised two credit courses delivered in partnership with the University of Arizona, and two SFU executive courses. The credit courses were offered from October 18-20, covering Building Native Nations and Making Change Happen, and were taught by Stephen Cornell and Miriam more »More...
Creating an entrepreneurial mindset through community
Nov 13, 2019
Many people hold a misconception of entrepreneurs as lone pioneers, working in isolation on their business ideas. It is a romantic and enduring image, but it is also largely a myth. The reality is that most successful entrepreneurs are supported by communities and networks of peers and established business people, and learn by hearing about the experiences they share. This was certainly the case for SFU Beedie alumnus Charles Chang, BBA’95, President & Founder of more »More...
Scientist entrepreneurs pitch ideas at venture competition
Nov 4, 2019
Entrepreneurs in the Invention to Innovation program at SFU’s Beedie School of Business pitched their science-based ventures to a team of expert judges, vying for prizes at the i2I Venture Pitch Competition. The event, which took place on October 23, 2019, brought together six scientist-entrepreneurship students who have recently graduated in the fourth cohort of the invention to Innovation (i2I) program at SFU Beedie’s Segal Graduate School. This graduate certificate program aims to equip scientists more »More...