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Elicia Maine and Lisa Papania earn 2017 TD Canada Trust Distinguished Teaching Awards
Oct 5, 2017
Beedie School of Business faculty members Elicia Maine and Lisa Papania have been named winners of the TD Canada Trust Distinguished Teaching Award for 2017. This award is the highest teaching honour of its kind at the Beedie School. Every year, students, faculty, and alumni of the Beedie School of Business nominate instructors teaching in both undergraduate and postgraduate programs for this prestigious award. Up to two awards are presented each year to instructors based more »More...
Gervase Bushe named one of HR’s Most Influential Thinkers
Sep 28, 2017
Beedie School of Business professor Gervase Bushe has made the list of the 30 Most Influential Thinkers in the field of Human Resources for the second year in a row, after being named at number seven in the 2017 rankings. Britain’s HR Magazine has published its annual HR Most Influential Rankings for the past 12 years recognizing some of the top practitioners and thinkers in HR. This list draws attention to individuals whose ideas and more »More...
Sustainability network aims to advance globally with $2.45 million SSHRC Partnership Grant
Sep 26, 2017
The Embedding Project, a global sustainability initiative founded by Stephanie Bertels, a SFU Beedie School of Business professor, has received a $2.45-million, seven-year Partnership Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). The project will use the funding to further its work in developing a new global forum for knowledge-sharing and dialogue on sustainability. The goal: to become a globally recognized knowledge resource for organizations seeking to advance their sustainability performance. The Embedding Project more »More...
Remembering Keith Beedie (1926-2017)
Sep 25, 2017
Statement from Ali Dastmalchian, Dean of the Beedie School of Business, on the passing of Keith Beedie, business and community leader and benefactor It is with deep sadness and a great sense of loss that we announce the death of Keith Beedie (Doctor of Laws, honoris causa), a chief benefactor of the Beedie School of Business and a dear friend of Simon Fraser University. Keith passed away peacefully in hospital on Wednesday, September 20. He will more »More...
SFU alumnus Frode Strand-Nielsen delivers presentation on digital disruption
Sep 18, 2017
One of SFU’s most successful alumni, Frode Strand-Nielsen, delivered a presentation to students, faculty and other guests at the Beedie School of Business on September 8, 2017. Strand-Nielsen is the Managing Partner of FSN Capital, a leading Nordic private equity investment company, which he founded in 1999 and has successfully grown into a firm with over €2 billion of assets under management. The presentation, entitled Digital Innovation and Disruption in Mature Industries, focused on the more »More...
SFU Beedie partners with Bank of Canada and Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco to host conference
Sep 7, 2017
Senior central bankers and leading academic researchers in finance from around the world congregated at the SFU Beedie School of Business’s Segal Graduate School in downtown Vancouver on August 17 and 18, to participate in a conference examining Advances in Fixed Income and Macro-Finance Research. SFU Beedie hosted the conference in partnership with the Bank of Canada and the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, and welcomed several senior figures from those institutions, including Carolyn more »More...
Is workaholism bad for your health? It depends how engaged you are in your job, finds SFU Beedie study
Aug 31, 2017
A new study investigating the phenomenon of ‘workaholism’, whose sufferers feel compulsively driven to work long hours and feel guilty when they are not working, has found that – as might be expected – it can have negative impacts on both mental and physical health. What is more surprising, however, is that these health issues are correlated to workaholism only when a person has low engagement in their work; for those who feel highly engaged more »More...
Technology Entrepreneurship@SFU Class of 2017 makes final presentations
Aug 24, 2017
In front of a sellout audience of 200 business experts, investors, instructors, students and alumni at the Westminster Savings Theatre at SFU’s Surrey Campus on August 3, students in the Technology Entrepreneurship@SFU (tech e@sfu) 2016/2017 cohort made their final presentations of the business ideas they have been developing over the past year. Tech e@SFU is a high-tech entrepreneurship program, funded by BCIC and the SpencerCreo Foundation, offering students hands-on training and support as they go more »More...
SFU Beedie Alumnus Matias Marquez named in Canada’s Top 40 Under 40
Jul 27, 2017
Beedie Alumnus and founder and COO of Buyatab Online Inc, Matias Marquez, has been named in Canada’s Top 40 Under 40® list for 2017, which recognizes outstanding young innovators making significant impacts on their organizations and in their communities. Buyatab is a leading provider of advanced online gift card infrastructure solutions for medium- and large-sized businesses. “This is a wonderful accolade. It’s gratifying to be recognized alongside so many respected and experienced individuals who are more »More...
Joseph Caron appointed to Advisory Council of the Jack Austin Centre
Jul 19, 2017
Former ambassador and experienced business leader Joseph Caron has been appointed to sit on the Advisory Council of the Jack Austin Centre for Asia Pacific Business Studies. Joseph Caron has more than 40 years’ experience in connecting Canada with Asia, serving at the highest levels of government and business. Mr. Caron has served as Canada’s Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China, Canada’s Ambassador to Japan, and High Commissioner to the Republic of India. Following more »More...