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Ian McCarthy ranked among Top 50 Professors on Twitter

Aug 26, 2014

Ian McCarthy, associate dean of graduate programs at SFU’s Beedie School of Business, has for the second year in a row been included on a prestigious list of the top 50 professors using Twitter.  

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CMA Innovation Centre: Measuring entrepreneurial resilience in five brothers

Aug 13, 2014

Over the course of a decade, five brothers in Bavaria, Germany all started business ventures in the food service industry with varying degrees of success. Given their near-identical backgrounds, what are the psychological and micro-social factors that affected the subjects’ entrepreneurial resilience, ultimately leading to their success and failure? Jessica Di Bella, Head of Mannheim Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Mannheim in Germany, explored this topic in a fascinating presentation in […]

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Remembering Alan Rugman, 1945-2014

Jul 31, 2014

It is with great sadness that we announce that Professor Alan Rugman passed away on the morning of July 8, 2014, after a brief battle with cancer.

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Beedie Prof. Irene Gordon awarded double accounting honours

Jul 23, 2014

Beedie School of Business accounting professor Irene Gordon has been honoured with two awards in tribute to her longstanding contribution to the field of accounting.

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Academy of International Business: Local Contexts in Global Business

Jun 24, 2014

As the host school of the Academy of International Business (AIB) 2014 Annual Meeting, the Beedie School of Business has partnered with the Globe and Mail to publish a special business report highlighting a small selection of the research papers that will be presented at the event.

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Vancouver Sun: Secrets to building business in China

May 13, 2014

Huge potential for B.C. companies that are willing to invest the time and adapt to culture differences.

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From Textbook to Tablet

Dec 17, 2013

Ian McCarthy on the value of using social media in academia. 

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Beedie Alumni Saving the Planet: one drop of water at a time

Apr 18, 2013

By Remy Scalza. That the planet’s supply of freshwater is dwindling is little surprise.  Just where it’s going, however, is eye opening.  It takes roughly 1,500 liters of water to make a pair of jeans, as much as 5,700 liters to grow and process the ingredients needed for a fast-food combo meal and about 120,000 liters to make a car – enough water to fill half an Olympic-sized swimming pool. “If you consider the volume […]

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Beedie mentor Poh Tan excels in stem cell research

Mar 15, 2013

The following article was published by Burnaby now on March 15, 2013. BY JENNIFER MOREAU, BURNABY NOW The drive to succeed. City woman’s childhood leads her to excel in the expanding field of stem cell research. Living at home wasn’t easy for Burnaby resident Poh Tan, but one thing she knew for certain – she would never be like her parents. Tan came from a broken home, with her mother and father constantly fighting and […]

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Beedie Professor Dianne Cyr nets prestigious Most Cited Paper Award

Mar 11, 2013

Dianne Cyr, a professor of management information systems at the Beedie School of Business has received an award for most cited paper from the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies. The prestigious award is given to the paper with the highest number of citations (excluding self-citations) between 2010 and 2012, and is a strong measure of the paper’s reach within the academic community and beyond. The winning paper, ‘‘Colour appeal in website design within and across […]

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