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Novel, inexpensive hearing aid wins SFU’s Coast Capital Savings Venture Prize

Feb 22, 2017

A Simon Fraser University venture that is poised to disrupt the global hearing aid market has taken the best overall $30,000 prize at the University’s annual Coast Capital Savings Venture Prize competition.

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Beedie students raise over $25,000 for Canadian Cancer Society

Jan 25, 2017

A group of Beedie students raised $25,800 for the Canadian Cancer Society last semester, in an initiative run as part of a project management class at the school.

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Businesses exploring new frontiers, says Beedie professor

Jan 10, 2017

Against a global backdrop of reduced economic growth, multinational companies are increasingly seeking profits in “low-income, high-risk countries”, according to an article co-authored by Beedie professor Eric Werker. Published in the Harvard Business Review, Mapping Frontier Economies identifies 19 “frontier countries”, characterized by political and legal uncertainty, and low per capita income – but potential for high growth.

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Georgia Straight: SFU instructors show some entrepreneurial zeal as they reinvent business education in Canada

Jan 4, 2017

The following article was published by the Georgia Straight on November 9, 2016. By Charlie Smith. Shawn Smith didn’t follow a conventional path to becoming a business-education innovator. Growing up in White Rock, he took the B.C. secondary-school curriculum by correspondence while working full-time, starting at the age of 15.

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Non-profit co-founded by Beedie student shortlisted for Democracy Innovation Award

Nov 29, 2016

Beedie School of Business PhD student Simon Pek has recently returned from the Council of Europe’s World Forum for Democracy, where work done by Democracy in Practice, the non-profit organization he co-founded, earned them a place as one of three finalists in the Democracy Innovation Award.

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Bocconi Campus Abroad program builds cross-cultural connections

Aug 2, 2016

The Beedie School of Business continues to build strong ties in international business education through the Bocconi Campus Abroad program. For three weeks in July a cohort of 29 students from the Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi in Milan traveled to Vancouver to take a condensed course in marketing with a select number of Beedie students. The Bocconi Campus Abroad program has been active for nine years, with a different topic being co-taught by two Bocconi […]

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Charles Chang: Entrepreneurial instinct

Jun 20, 2016

A historic gift from SFU Beedie School of Business alumnus Charles Chang underscores the School’s commitment to entrepreneurship and innovation.

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SFU receives $10 million donation to establish new institute for entrepreneurship

Jun 17, 2016

Vega founder Charles Chang makes one of the largest gifts in SFU history.

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First year Beedie “twins” find success on national stage

Jun 9, 2016

First year Beedie School of Business undergraduate students Stefanie Huffman and Kimberley Venn could pass for twin sisters. The pair not only share an uncanny resemblance, but also an inherent ability to think alike and work together – one that made them a force to be reckoned with at this year’s Enactus National Exposition.

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First year Beedie “twins” find success on national stage

Jun 9, 2016

  First year Beedie School of Business undergraduate students Stefanie Huffman and Kimberley Venn could pass for twin sisters. The pair not only share an uncanny resemblance, but also an inherent ability to think alike and work together – one that made them a force to be reckoned with at this year’s Enactus National Exposition.

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