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Beedie social enterprise Fusion Kitchen hosts Pakistani culinary class
Feb 13, 2013
Fusion Kitchen, a community-minded entrepreneurship initiative that was founded by two Simon Fraser University students and fostered in the Beedie School of Business Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator, recently hosted a special event focused on the culinary traditions of Pakistan. Entitled “A Taste of Pakistan”, the gathering of gourmands took place on February 8. In groups of three, Beedie students, and alumni, as well as newcomers to Fusion Kitchen, worked together to cook up a five-course Pakistani meal more »More...
Nelson Lah named Chair of Beedie’s Business Technology Management Advisory Board
Feb 7, 2013
The Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University has announced the appointment of Nelson Lah, Partner and Director of leading IT and business process services provider CGI, as Chair of the Business Technology Management (BTM) Advisory Board. Lah has a history of strategic leadership, innovative approaches, mentorship, and community-university service. Before joining CGI, he worked as Chief Technology Officer and Executive Director at the BC Ministry of Citizens’ Services. The BTM certificate is aimed more »More...
SFU establishes academic partnership with Canadian entrepreneurship program The Next 36
Feb 7, 2013
Simon Fraser University has become an official academic partner of The Next 36, Canada’s leading undergraduate entrepreneurship development program. The partnership further solidifies SFU’s reputation as a Canadian leader in fostering entrepreneurship and innovation, and for developing the next generation of founders and leaders of new ventures. As academic partner of The Next 36, SFU will support the organization’s vision of increasing Canadian prosperity through the creation of high impact entrepreneurs, and encourage its top more »More...
Beedie students and alumni vie for Coast Capital Savings Venture Prize
Feb 6, 2013
Students and alumni from the Beedie School of Business will put their business development skills to the test as they compete for $5000 of cash prizes in the annual Coast Capital Savings Venture Prize Competition. The Beedie School of Business will once again be strongly represented in the competition, which is open to the public and will be held from 2 – 5pm on February 13 in room 4600 of the Segal Graduate School, with more »More...
Professor Blaize Horner Reich to receive Influential Women in Business award
Feb 1, 2013
Blaize Horner Reich, the RBC Professor of Technology and Innovation at SFU’s Beedie School of Business, has been chosen as a 2013 recipient of Business in Vancouver’s Influential Women in Business award. The Influential Women in Business (IWIB) awards are presented to women in BC who are leaders in their industry and the business community at large, who are in charge of corporate entities and not-for-profit organizations and who commit time and resources to mentor more »More...
Beedie School’s Rosanne Wan receives AIESEC Canada award
Feb 1, 2013
Rosanne Wan, Manager of Student Engagement and Recruitment at the Beedie School of Business, has been awarded the prestigious AIESEC Canada Lewis Perinbam Alumni Award at the AIESEC Canada 2013 National Congress. The Lewis Perinbam Alumni award is presented each year to the most passionate and helpful mentor in AIESEC Canada. Wan was nominated for the award based on her passion and commitment to the growth of the SFU chapter, and was presented with the more »More...
Beedie named Academic School of the Year at JDC West
Jan 23, 2013
SFU’s Beedie School of Business captured the Academic School of the Year award at the prestigious JDC West case competition, held from January 18 to 20 at the University of British Columbia, edging out stiff competition from 11 other leading Canadian business schools to claim the title. The Academic School of the Year award is presented to the team which achieves the highest overall finish in the JDC West competition’s ten academic categories. In addition, the more »More...
Dragon’s Den-like B.C. tech contest taps local talent
Jan 18, 2013
The following article was published by the Province on January 17, 2013 BY SAM COOPER, THE PROVINCE Firm’s desalination process making a splash A unique contest for tech startups in B.C. is getting credit for fostering innovation and catalyzing some major success stories. The BCIC New Ventures Competition runs annually from April to September, giving entrants a chance to move through stages to meet a final jury that somewhat resembles the panel of venture capitalists in more »More...
Jim Sibley delivers Team Based Learning session
Jan 11, 2013
Our November 22nd workshop on Team Based Learning (TBL) was excellent. Jim Sibley, Director of the Centre for Instructional Support at the Faculty of Applied Science at University of British Columbia and a strong advocate for TBL, did an excellent job modelling how this pedagogy can be used in the classroom. Team-Based Learning was born in the University of Oklahoma Business School. The methodology focuses on having teams make difficult decisions and then publicly report more »More...
Harper Doctrine a diving catch for Canada’s future: Op-Ed by Jack Austin
Jan 3, 2013
Opinion: Issue of state-owned enterprises erratic, unpredictable. By Jack Austin, Vancouver Sun At a recent symposium hosted at SFU’s Beedie School of Business and the Jack Austin Centre for Asia Pacific Business Studies, I invoked the baseball analogy of a “diving catch” to describe the Harper government’s recent response to offshore bids for Canadian assets, including the somewhat contentious takeover by Chinese government-controlled CNOOC of Calgary’s Nexen. That’s because the issue of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) more »More...