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Executive MBA In Indigenous Business And Leadership
Vancouver Sun: Aboriginal-focused MBA links western business ideas with First Nations perspectives
Jun 8, 2015
The following article was published by the Vancouver Sun on June 5. By Tracey Sherlock.More...
Globe and Mail: Beedie initiatives to lift next generation of First Nation entrepreneurs
Jun 1, 2015
The following article was published by the Globe and Mail on May 29.More...
BC Business: SFU’s new MBA in aboriginal business
Mar 30, 2015
The following article was published by BC Business on March 30, 2015. By Jessica Barrett.More...
Globe and Mail: Departing dean reflects on his legacy
Jul 28, 2014
The following article was published in the Globe and Mail on July 28, 2014.More...
AQ Magazine: Aboriginal Leadership
Apr 8, 2014
The following article was published in the April 2014 issue of SFU’s AQ Magazine. By Diane Luckow. Vancouver-based Taseko Mines has long proposed a $1.5 billion open-pit gold and copper mine in B.C.’s Cariboo. But the company continues to encounter significant opposition from the region’s First Nations, and the project’s future continues to hang in the balance.More...
Student project helps land Juno nomination
Mar 16, 2014
Beedie School of Business teachers have a reputation for innovative class assignments with an emphasis on experiential learning. One such group project in the Executive MBA in Aboriginal Business and Leadership has resulted in an outcome that will be familiar to those with an interest in music – a Juno Awards nomination.More...
Top MBA: The First Nations and Business in Canada
Feb 27, 2014
The following article was published by TopMBA.com on February 27, 2014, and features comment from Ulrike Radermacher, Associate Director of the Executive MBA in Aboriginal Business and Leadership at the Beedie School of Business. The welfare and rights of the indigenous people of Canada – or First Nations, as they are collectively referred to – are of pressing concern at a time when many companies wish to develop Canada’s wealth of natural resources. Recent oil […]More...
First Nations need to share in B.C.’s future resource boom
Oct 1, 2013
The following article was published by The Vancouver Sun on October 1, 2013 By Mark Selman, Program Director, EMBA in Aboriginal Business and Leadership, Beedie School of Business. The biggest challenge and opportunity facing British Columbia is reconciliation, or the development of respectful relationships and equality between Aboriginal Peoples and the rest of British Columbians. This is not only a social and an ethical challenge and opportunity, it is also an economic challenge and opportunity […]More...
Beedie professor Mark Selman honoured by Industry Council for Aboriginal Business
Sep 3, 2013
The following is an excerpt from the full article published in The Globe and Mail on August 30, 2013. A professor at Simon Fraser University’s Beedie School of Business has been honoured for his work on indigenous issues. Prof. Mark Selman developed Beedie’s Executive MBA in Indigenous Business and Leadership in consultation with First Nation, Metis and Inuit leaders, with the program`s first class of 25 students scheduled to graduate in spring, 2015. The program, […]More...
EMBA in Aboriginal Business and Leadership boosts First Nations postsecondary enrollment
Aug 26, 2013
The following article was published by The Georgia Straight on August 21, 2013. When Eldon Yellowhorn attended Simon Fraser University in the early 1990s, he was one of two First Nations graduate students, and he says he was among fewer than a dozen indigenous people enrolled at the institution. Now the chair of the department of First Nations studies at SFU, Yellowhorn notes that a lot has changed since then. The university now has more […]More...