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MBA alumnus Darrell Burnham receives SFU Outstanding Alumni Award
Dec 9, 2014
Darrell Burnham, Beedie School of Business alumnus and executive director of Coast Mental Health, has been announced as the winner of the Service to the Community Award in Simon Fraser University’s 2014 Outstanding Alumni Awards.More...
SFU’s RADIUS awarded new grant to drive social change
Nov 14, 2014
A major new award will see the Beedie School of Business’ social venture lab and incubator RADIUS strengthen its position as a thought-leader in changing higher education in Canada and launching high-impact solutions to social challenges.More...
MOT MBA grad pioneers new transportation mode
Oct 9, 2014
Kody Baker has parlayed his Beedie School of Business education into a new venture – one that could revolutionize transportation around Vancouver.More...
Students weave web to promote community engagement
Mar 24, 2013
A group of Beedie School of Business MBA students weaved a web of yarn in a guerilla marketing campaign to raise awareness for isolated seniors and older adults who live alone and find themselves disconnected from the community. The web was part of a wider project that required the students to design a social media strategy for a local nonprofit organization as part of their marketing and management information systems classes. The group, consisting of more »More...
Beedie undergrads examine election’s effect on public transit
Mar 20, 2013
A group of Beedie school of Business undergraduate students explored how the forthcoming provincial elections will affect issues in public transit at an event held at SFU’s Surrey campus last week. The event, Get On Board SFU, featured guest speakers Gordon Price, Director of the City Program at SFU, former Board Member of Metro Vancouver & Translink, and recent recipient of the SFU President’s Award for 2012; City of Surrey councillor Tom Gill; and Nick more »More...
Beedie profs engage with next generation of entrepreneurs
Dec 14, 2012
A group of middle school students engaged with leading business professors from the Beedie School of Business this week to showcase some innovative new products – made entirely from duct tape, paper clips and popsicle sticks. The students – from Citadel Middle School in Coquitlam’s Middle Age Cluster Class program – visited SFU’s Segal Graduate School in downtown Vancouver to pitch their creations to a panel of guest judges, including Beedie professor Eric Gedajlovic and more »More...
MBAs partner with Five Hole for Food to fight hunger
Dec 12, 2012
MBA students from the Beedie School of Business put their studies on hold in favour of some street hockey recently, at the SFU MBA Five Hole for Food charity street hockey event. The event was organized by SFU’s full-time and Management of Technology MBA students in partnership with Five Hole for Food, and took place at the Jack Poole Plaza (near the Olympic cauldron) in downtown Vancouver on 15 December. Five Hole for Food is more »More...
Will Mitchell’s Winding Road
Dec 12, 2012
Distinguished business professor’s path – from industrial smelter to some of the world’s most prestigious business faculties – was guided by non-traditional start at SFU. Will Mitchell didn’t come by his decision to attend business school lightly. As an 18 year old, he was pouring lead slag into a furnace for a living at a lead-zinc smelter in Trail, BC when he decided to heed the call of higher learning – from Simon Fraser University. more »More...
Fusion Kitchen wins BC social innovation competition
Nov 28, 2012
A Beedie School of Business student social enterprise start-up has been selected as one of three university project winners in new province-wide community engagement competition, BC Ideas. The start-up, Fusion Kitchen, was chosen in the BC Ideas University Solutions Investment category, for putting forth an idea which creates positive social impact in BC communities. Fusion Kitchen employs immigrant women to lead cooking classes, in the process sharing their food and cultures, while learning transferable skills more »More...
Purdy’s CEO Karen Flavelle wraps up CKNW Series
Nov 8, 2012
The fall series of the Chief Executives at the Beedie School of Business concluded with Karen Flavelle, President and CEO of Purdy’s Chocolates, sharing her experiences as head of Western Canada’s largest chocolate retailer with a live audience at the Segal Graduate School of Business. 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 series of live more »More...