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Case competition success for SFU Beedie undergraduates
Feb 8, 2018
Simon Fraser University’s Beedie School of Business won a total of eight podium places in this year’s JDC West case competition. JDC West is Western Canada’s largest business case competition, hosting almost 600 undergraduate delegates from twelve of Western Canada’s leading post-secondary institutions. Delegates compete in a number of disciplines, including academics, debate and athletics. This year’s competition took place over the span of three days from January 12 to 14, 2018, at the University more »More...
SFU Beedie hosts Nobel Peace Prize winner
Feb 7, 2018
Nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus addressed an audience of more than 300 people at Simon Fraser University’s Beedie School of Business at a special event on February 5, 2018. Professor Yunus, who founded microfinance organization Grameen Bank, is the winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, among many other international honours and awards, for his pioneering work in developing microfinance to help people lift themselves from poverty. SFU Beedie hosted the event at the Segal more »More...
SFU Beedie student selected for entrepreneurial leadership initiative
Feb 2, 2018
Rachel Chase, an undergraduate student at Simon Fraser University’s Beedie School of Business, is among three SFU students to be selected for the 2018 cohort of The Next 36 a national initiative aimed at transforming Canada’s most promising post-secondary student innovators into leading entrepreneurs. Rachel was selected alongside Ardalan Benam,a recent MSc graduate from the School of Computing Science, and Nell Du, an undergraduate in the School of Mechatronic Systems Engineering. With three students accepted, SFU has more students more »More...
SFU Beedie appoints Joy Cramer to lead Indigenous programs
Jan 16, 2018
SFU’s Beedie School of Business has appointed Joy Cramer, a former Deputy Minister with the Province of Manitoba, to the newly created position of director, Indigenous Programs. In her new role, Cramer will lead the school’s strategy to grow Indigenous programming, integrate Indigenous learning into the mainstream curriculum, and increase engagement with Indigenous communities. To reach these goals, Cramer has several priorities. She aims to attract investment from corporate donors to support new research and more »More...
Beedie partnership in Peru promotes community engagement for social change and globally responsible leadership
Jan 9, 2018
Beedie faculty June Francis and Kristina Henriksson have launched the new Co-Laboratorio AQP program in partnership with Universidad Catolica San Pablo in Arequipa Peru (UCSP), sharing Beedie’s philosophy of experiential learning and promoting socially responsible business on a global platform. The first class of 36 students, drawn from across UCSP, recently completed the 20-week, innovative design “lab course” embedded in UCSP’s undergraduate curriculum. Through the program, students worked closely with community stakeholders to develop sustainable more »More...
Beedie’s Executive MBA in Indigenous Business and Leadership featured in Globe and Mail
Nov 16, 2017
The Executive MBA in Indigenous Business and Leadership program at the Beedie School of Business, the first of its kind in Canada, has been featured in an article in the Globe and Mail. Director of the Executive MBA in Indigenous Business and Leadership program, Mark Selman, discusses how the launch of the program in 2012 came after years of consultation with Indigenous communities. Click here to read the article in full at the Globe and more »More...
Long-time SFU friends Joe and Rosalie Segal honoured for lifetime of leadership
Nov 16, 2017
Joseph (Joe) and Rosalie Segal are legendary philanthropists whose generosity has touched countless lives and organizations—and had a transformative impact on Simon Fraser University. In honour of National Philanthropy Day (Nov. 15), the distinguished couple is being honoured for their extraordinary community leadership by the Association of Fundraising Professionals Vancouver Chapter and its first Giving Hearts Lifetime Achievement Award. The recognition does not stop there. Joe and Rosalie have fostered the same spirit of giving more »More...
Beedie professor elected to Vancouver School Board
Oct 23, 2017
Judy Zaichkowsky, University Professor of Marketing at SFU’s Beedie School of Business, has won election to the Vancouver School Board. Zaichkowsky, representing the Green Party, secured a seat on the nine-strong board at Vancouver’s byelection on October 14, 2017, after receiving the second highest number of votes among the 19 candidates. Zaichkowsky received 23,383 votes, representing 7.14% of total votes cast. “This foray into politics was a very gratifying experience, as I got to connect more »More...
Inaugural recipients of Ryan Beedie Leadership Awards named
Oct 13, 2017
The first five students to receive the new Ryan Beedie Leadership Awards have been named. Mia Dommann, Musa Fortin, Katie Low, Bradley Ma and Kirsten Milic will each receive support of $20,000 over four years, in recognition of their commitment to leadership while at high school. Each of the recipients has demonstrated leadership through remarkable achievements, both academic and extracurricular, prior to joining the Beedie School of Business. Mia Dommann, who attended Sentinel Secondary in more »More...
Wearable tech and carbon capture companies win SFU science and tech start-up competition
Oct 12, 2017
Start-up companies FlexiPatchR, which makes wearable technology to monitor Parkinson’s disease symptoms, and Flow-Through Solutions, which helps mining companies capture CO2 emissions, were the winners in their respective categories at the second annual “Invention to Innovation” venture pitch competition. The event, which took place on October 11, 2017, brought together six scientist-entrepreneurship students in the second cohort of the i2I program at SFU’s Beedie School of Business. This Graduate Certificate in Science and Technology Commercialization more »More...