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Beedie undergrads examine election’s effect on public transit
Mar 20, 2013
A group of Beedie school of Business undergraduate students explored how the forthcoming provincial elections will affect issues in public transit at an event held at SFU’s Surrey campus last week. The event, Get On Board SFU, featured guest speakers Gordon Price, Director of the City Program at SFU, former Board Member of Metro Vancouver & Translink, and recent recipient of the SFU President’s Award for 2012; City of Surrey councillor Tom Gill; and Nick more »More...
Beedie student Tamara Hombrebueno to judge TalentEgg Awards
Mar 12, 2013
Beedie School of Business undergraduate student Tamara Hombrebueno has been selected as one of 200 top students from across Canada to judge the 2013 TalentEgg National Campus Recruitment Excellence Awards. The TalentEgg National Campus Recruitment Excellence Awards are presented to the employers who best illustrate how to achieve outstanding results in campus recruitment. The awards provide employers who hire Canadian students or recent graduates with student perspective on campus recruitment. Each year TalentEgg selects top more »More...
CKNW CEO Series set to return to Beedie School of Business
Mar 5, 2013
The Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University and prominent Vancouver radio station CKNW News Talk 980 are teaming up once more this spring to bring leadership and entrepreneurship insights from some of Canada’s foremost business minds to SFU. “The Chief Executives” program will bring a selection of the country’s top executives – ranging from Canadian airline WestJet to fashion giant Aritzia – to SFU’s downtown Vancouver campus in an exclusive series of interviews. more »More...
Beedie School’s Sam Thiara receives Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal
Dec 18, 2012
Sam Thiara, Associate Director of Undergraduate Alumni Engagement at Simon Fraser University’s Beedie School of Business, has been awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal, a special commemorative medal honouring the significant contributions and achievements by Canadians. The award is being given to Thiara in recognition of his outstanding engagement and leadership. Thiara has worked with hundreds of students and alumni since joining SFU’s Beedie School in 2004, and has also volunteered countless hours more »More...
Leading the way in diversity
Dec 1, 2012
Annual SFU Nancy McKinstry Awards focus on diversity in business. Since 2009, the Beedie School of Business has hosted the Nancy McKinstry Awards for Leadership in Diversity to recognize organizations that are demonstrating leadership in workplace diversity. Each year an award is presented to the organization which exemplifies the values of diversity in the workplace, and a scholarship is presented to an SFU student who exemplifies leadership in promoting opportunities for women in business. This more »More...
Purdy’s CEO Karen Flavelle wraps up CKNW Series
Nov 8, 2012
The fall series of the Chief Executives at the Beedie School of Business concluded with Karen Flavelle, President and CEO of Purdy’s Chocolates, sharing her experiences as head of Western Canada’s largest chocolate retailer with a live audience at the Segal Graduate School of Business. The event was part of the Beedie School of Business’ partnership with prominent Vancouver radio station CKNW, which sees SFU’s downtown Vancouver campus play host to the series of live more »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...
New Report Helps Municipal Organizations Become Sustainability Leaders
Nov 14, 2011
London, Ottawa, and Vancouver, November 15, 2011—A growing number of municipal governments across the country are aiming to become beacons of sustainability in their communities, but many are struggling to lead by example. A free new report released today, Embedding Sustainability into the Culture of Municipal Government, promises to help municipal change agents advance sustainability in their organizations and become role models for others in the community. Developed as a collaboration between the Network for Business more »More...
Sam Thiara honoured by Vancouver Board of Trade’s Leaders of Tomorrow
Sep 16, 2011
Sam Thiara, Manager of Student Engagement and Recruitment at the Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University, has been recognized for his longstanding engagement and leadership by the Leaders of Tomorrow program (LOT) of the Vancouver Board of Trade.More...