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Alumna Frenny Bawa explains the technology distribution model in India
Aug 1, 2013
The following article was published by Business in Vancouver on June 11, 2013. Frenny Bawa is a SFU BBA alumna. Business in Vancouver’s “How I Did It” feature asks business leaders to explain in their own words how they achieved a business goal in the face of significant entrepreneurial challenges. In this week’s issue, Frenny Bawa describes how, in her previous role as Research in Motion’s (RIM, now BlackBerry) vice-president and managing director for India, she more »More...
Aboriginal Business Champion distinction for SFU trailblazer in management education
Jul 26, 2013
Mark Selman, director of the Executive MBA in Aboriginal Business and Leadership at Simon Fraser University’s Beedie School of Business, is the 2013 recipient of the Industry Council for Aboriginal Business (ICAB) award for Aboriginal Business Champion of the Year. The Aboriginal Business Champion award is given to a non-Aboriginal individual who exemplifies leadership and best practices in Aboriginal engagement and business relationship development. The honour is a part of the ICAB Recognition Awards, which more »More...
SFU Executive Education marks five years of developing IT business leaders
Jul 24, 2013
This fall marks the latest installment of the CIOCAN Leadership Development Program, an annual professional development program for senior IT leaders offered by SFU Executive Education at the Beedie School of Business in partnership with the CIO Association of Canada’s Vancouver chapter. The program, now in its fifth year, supports IT leaders who want to take their careers to the next level and become true business leaders. “We are listening to the business needs of more »More...
Axiom News: At RADIUS, Students are Launching Social Ventures
Jul 18, 2013
The following article was published by Axiom News on July 15, 2013. Twenty-one-year-old Xinyan Chen took her first social entrepreneurship class at RADIUS (RADical Ideas Useful to Society) last spring. Now, she and four co-founders are launching EnableLife, an online community for people with disabilities and their support network to share tips and tricks to enable easier living. It’s this quick turnaround, from a useful idea to establishing a social venture, that a new Vancouver program more »More...
Beedie sets new standards for case competition training – and results
Jul 8, 2013
In 2012, the spring semester of undergraduate business case competitions saw Beedie School of Business teams achieve relatively strong results, including a podium finish for the APEX Business-IT Global Case Challenge team. Despite the admirable performances, however, the consensus was that the school’s students were capable of achieving even more. Fast forward one year, and the 2013 spring semester saw Beedie School of Business teams achieve podium finishes at every single undergraduate case competition entered: more »More...
Shafik Bhalloo and Anthony Chan announced as TD Canada Trust Distinguished Teaching Award 2013 winners
Jul 5, 2013
Beedie School of Business lecturers Shafik Bhalloo and Anthony Chan have been named as recipients of the 2013 TD Canada Trust Distinguished Teaching Award, the highest teaching honour at SFU’s Beedie School of Business. The TD Canada Trust Distinguished Teaching Awards are presented each year to the two teachers at Beedie who exemplify qualities such as engagement, organization, discipline, enthusiasm and support in their teaching. Since 1990, Beedie School of Business students, faculty and alumni more »More...
MBAs tackle iconic West Lion peak for BC charity
Jul 5, 2013
A team of adventure-seeking MBA students from SFU’s Beedie School of Business geared up in July to ascend one of the most iconic mountain peaks in the Vancouver area to raise funds for youth and family nature programs in British Columbia. They are the first MBA group in the province to have led this kind of charity-focused climb. The challenging day hike and scramble took students to the West Lion – a famous peak on more »More...
Beedie’s Business Technology Management Certificate awarded first national accreditation
Jun 18, 2013
The Certificate in Business Technology Management at Simon Fraser University’s Beedie School of Business is the first Business Technology Management program in Canada to be awarded national accreditation. The accreditation is the result of a rigorous process of program evaluation conducted by the Canadian Information Processing Society (CIPS), and the Canadian Coalition for Tomorrow’s ICT Skills (CCICT). “This is a milestone achievement in the development of the BTM program at SFU,” said Dr. Dianne Cyr, more »More...
Beedie School’s RADIUS appoints Director of Ventures
Jun 17, 2013
RADIUS, the Beedie School of Business’ new interdisciplinary social innovation lab and venture incubator, has appointed Donovan Woollard as Director of RADIUS Ventures. RADIUS Ventures aims to become a world-leading incubator and accelerator program for impact-focused ventures, nurturing the best and brightest ideas from SFU and around the globe. With financial support from Vancity Credit Union and SFU, it will seed the ecosystem with high potential social ventures, and help to maximize the collective impact more »More...
Prof. Gervase Bushe brings organizational development insights to Korea
Jun 13, 2013
Gervase Bushe, Professor of Leadership and Organization Development at the Beedie School of Business, recently touched down in Seoul, Korea for a series of talks and seminars on leadership and organizational change. Bushe spoke to some of Korea’s most prominent academic and business leaders, delivering lectures and workshops at Kyung Hee University and to the Korean CEO’s Association of Multinational Corporations, as well as the leadership team of Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices Korea. Attendees more »More...