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Beedie students spread United Way cheer at SFU Surrey
Nov 28, 2011
Beedie School of Business BusOne students at Simon Fraser University’s Surrey campus will spread some Christmas cheer for the United Way on Friday, Dec. 2. The students, all in their first year of study, are putting their business creativity to the test to raise money, doing everything from photos with Santa to a “Rent-a-Biz-Kid” opportunity, during the special United Way event on the Mezzanine from 2:30 – 5:30 p.m. Among other ideas, shoppers can purchase prize-popping more »More...
Beedie hosts Candid Conversation with Walmart Canada about Sustainability
Nov 24, 2011
SFU’s Beedie School of Business hosted “A Candid Conversation with Walmart Canada about Sustainability” on Monday, November 21 at the Segal Graduate School of Business in downtown Vancouver. The event was co-sponsored by SFU Beedie’s CMA Centre for Strategic Change and Performance Measurement and SFU Beedie’s NetImpact Chapter. A diverse and engaged audience — consisting of SFU MBAs and BBAs, plus students, faculty and industry professionals from across the Lower Mainland — joined the Beedie School to learn more more »More...
Beedie undergrad is SFU’s Student Entrepreneur of the Year
Nov 24, 2011
The founder of a burgeoning online instant gift card company is Simon Fraser University’s newest Student Entrepreneur of the Year. Matias Marquez, an undergraduate student in the Beedie School of Business, took the honour at the Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) annual competition held on Nov. 19. His company, Buyatab.com, Canada’s leading digital gift card processor is a “software-as-a-service” digital gift card processing technology that becomes embedded onto its customers’ websites. According to Marquez, thousands of merchant locations across more »More...
Vancouver Startup Weekend brings BC entrepreneurship community to SFU
Nov 22, 2011
Vancouver Startup Weekend, sponsored by the Beedie School of Business and hosted at the Segal Graduate School in downtown Vancouver, brought together entrepreneurs from across the region to develop their business ideas from early-stage conceptualization to real-world viability. A panel of local entrepreneurs and investors awarded first place to “My Best Helper” at the Vancouver Startup Weekend. “My Best Helper” is a web-based service that matches caregivers with people who need their services. Nannies, babysitters, more »More...
AACSB BizEd Magazine profiles Beedie Mobile: What’s App-enin’ At B-Schools
Nov 21, 2011
That was the case for the Beedie School. A team of five SFU computer science and business students created Beedie's app as a 13-week project for an interdisciplinary course, "Foundations of Innovation" in 2010. Jan Kietzmann, who teaches the course, planned to make iPhone app design a general focus for the course. But he says it was a "natural progression" to shift the focus to creating a Beedie School app. The team was guided in the project by Kietzmann; Moscato; Dan Shapiro, the dean; and Andrew Gemino, associate dean of undergraduate programs and associate professor of management information systems. After the course ended, Moscato continued to work with the students to perfect the app before its release five months later in spring 2011. "Although the project was introduced to the students from 'up top,' the students really loved the idea and took it upon themselves to identify where and how an app could help improve their lives as students," says Kietzmann. The students decided that the Beedie School app should be an information hub. They wanted it to integrate the school's Twitter and Facebook feeds with links to announcements about current research from school faculty and graduate students, says Justin Lee, a member of the student team.More...
SFU & UBC students pitch social ventures to top entrepreneurs for seed funding
Nov 18, 2011
(Vancouver) November 11, 2011 – Ashoka Canada, in partnership with the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University, will find the top student changemakers at the end of this month. The two schools co-launched the Be A Changemaker Challenge, powered by Starbucks, to find the best student-led social initiatives coming out of Vancouver. The components of the Challenge are a bootcamp, which took place at SFU on Oct. 1st and a venture pitch selection more »More...
Youth Venture Changemaker Challenge brings together business leaders on Nov. 23rd
Nov 17, 2011
Watch UBC and SFU students pitch their social ventures to win up to $1,000 in seed funding! We invite you to The Be a Changemaker Challenge Selection Panel to watch the top teams of SFU and UBC students pitch their ideas for creating their own social ventures. The Selection Panel will bring together six business and social entrepreneurs who will select the winners. Panelists include: James Tansey (ISIS, Sauder School of Business, UBC), Tom Lawrence more »More...
Burnaby advertising company meets with Dragon’s Den
Nov 17, 2011
BY JANAYA FULLER-EVANS, BURNABY NOW Ads on Naps co-founders Jag Manhas and Phil Chow entered the Dragon’s Den voluntarily, and survived. Manhas, a British Columbia Institute of Technology student and Chow, a Simon Fraser University alumnus, took part in a mini Dragon’s Den at SFU’s Surrey campus on Sept. 9. The advertising company sells high-definition ad space on napkins, which are supplied free of charge to businesses in Canada. The Ads on Naps team went more »More...
New study finds women not well represented on Canadian corporate boards
Nov 16, 2011
CBDC issues call to action to replace retiring directors with diverse candidates TORONTO , Nov. 16, 2011 /CNW/ – Some disconcerting findings on the lack of diversity in the boardrooms of Canada’s largest corporations were released today in the Canadian Board Diversity Council’s Second Annual Report Card, produced in partnership with the Beedie School of Business. While 73 per cent of corporate board members feel their boards are diverse, the reality is that women are more »More...
Digital Dialogue: Ashish Gurung on incorporating social media in the classroom
Nov 15, 2011
The following was originally published on Invoke’s blog and authored by Justine Yu. Ashish Gurung teaches an undergraduate social media course at SFU Beedie School of Business. He is also involved with a bunch of other stuff ‚ some startups, some consulting and lots of non-profits. Find him@ashishgurung and http://www.ashishgurung.ca Tell us a bit about the social media course you created. What motivated you to create an entire course about social media at SFU’s Beedie School of more »More...