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SFU Beedie’s CaseIT thrives in first online edition

Mar 12, 2021

The student organizing committee behind CaseIT, the leading international case competition focusing on management information systems (MIS), faced a daunting challenge as they planned the 2021 event. The competition attracts top business students from high-calibre business schools all over the world to compete and network with one another in close collaboration. With international travel and in-person meetings impossible, the organizers were sent back to the drawing board with no precedent to follow, as they created […]

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SFU Beedie undergraduates triumph in major case competition

Jan 28, 2021

A team of undergraduates at SFU’s Beedie School of Business delivered another outstanding performance at the JDC West case competition, the most prestigious event of its kind in Western Canada, to be named both School of the Year and Academic School of the Year. JDC West has run since 2006, bringing together around 600 undergraduate delegates from the leading business schools across BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba to compete in a range of disciplines, including […]

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SFU Beedie welcomes virtual international exchange students

Nov 26, 2020

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, international travel was one of the first activities to be halted. That created a challenge for the Office of International Programs (OIP) at SFU’s Beedie School of Business, which oversees international student exchange—but also an opportunity to try something new. Helping students to develop a global perspective is a core pillar of SFU Beedie’s mission, and the team wasn’t willing to give up on offering international students the experience of […]

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SFU Beedie alumnus Emily Davies helps students find their passions

Oct 15, 2020

On paper, Emily Davies’ (BBA ’15) career path looks like a business student’s dream. After graduating from SFU’s Beedie School of Business, Davies secured a coveted role with RBC Capital Markets, working in equity research and investment banking. Just over two years later, she joined boutique investment management firm Linde Equity, where she is now a Partner. But it could all have been very different. Davies attended an art school and was active in a […]

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Investment challenge goes virtual

Sep 25, 2020

The Linde Davies Investment Challenge, co-founded by SFU Beedie alumnus Emily Davies (BBA ’15), will be going ahead in an online format for 2020. The challenge offers undergraduate students an opportunity to gain experience of the investment world, while competing for a prize pool of $10,000. Applications are open until October 1, 2020, but spaces are limited to 30 teams of three students. Each team must include at least one female student. Students my register […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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SFU Beedie’s unique orientation experience aims to help increase success for its new students

Sep 19, 2019

In early September, Simon Fraser University’s Beedie School of Business hyped up 300 of its students at a pep rally as they broke up into teams and faced off against one another in a unique cross-campus competition at SFU’s Burnaby Campus. The pep rally and cross-campus competition is a part of SFU Beedie Launch—a three-day orientation program designed to help ensure student success at the university. The new students, coming directly from high school, learned […]

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Aspiring entrepreneurs in high school can now get a head start on earning university credits

Jun 28, 2019

Youth Entrepreneurship Leadership Launchpad (YELL) Canada has teamed up with Simon Fraser University (SFU)’s Chang Institute for Entrepreneurship (CIE) to develop and deliver a unique initiative for aspiring entrepreneurs in high school looking to get a head start with their SFU education. Students graduating from YELL with a B or higher will receive high school credit and are eligible to apply for SFU university credit. This collaborative initiative is a Canadian first that gives university […]

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SFU Beedie students victorious at Oxford competition

Jun 12, 2019

A multidisciplinary team of SFU business and environment undergrads extinguished their global competition to take first place in the finals of the global Map the System competition held at Oxford University on June 9. This is the third consecutive year that an SFU team has made it to the top three in the final round in the U.K. The competition challenges students to explore societal and environmental change through a research lens. Team Inferno comprises […]

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