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Silver finish for BBA alumnus Chris Velasco at cross-cultural business competition
Jul 17, 2012
Brainstorming into the wee hours of the morning with students from across the globe helped BBA alumnus Chris Velasco achieve a prestigious silver finish in a unique international enterprise competition. He recently took part in the Global Enterprise Experience Competition, an international business competition which develops students’ skills in managing across cultures and time zones by placing them in teams with students from other universities across the globe. Velasco, who graduated from SFU shortly after more »More...
BBAs gear up for JDC West
Jun 27, 2012
The 2013 JDC West business schools showdown is six months away, but the SFU Beedie team is already hard at work to prepare for the prestigious competition. Over the past few weeks, candidates for SFU Beedie’s JDC West academic team partook in the new case competition cohort, taught by instructor Tara Immell. The students did practice cases and presentations to develop their understanding of how to analyse cases and work as a team. The team more »More...
Students Pluck Management Case from Vancouver Hockey Riot
Jun 22, 2012
Undergrads parlay business lessons from post-Stanley Cup mayhem into victories at global ethics competition. For British Columbia hockey fans and observers of civic affairs, 2011 will be remembered for the troubling Stanley Cup riots in the aftermath of the Vancouver Canucks’ Game 7 loss to the Boston Bruins. The event is something many of the city’s residents would like to forget. But for a team of students from the Beedie School of Business, the riots more »More...
Emily Chen parlays global exchange into Tsinghua Cup victory and prestigious internship
Jun 11, 2012
A Beedie School of Business undergraduate student has won a prestigious Chinese case competition while on exchange at Tsinghua University in Beijing – flying the flag for Simon Fraser University in the process. BBA fourth year student Emily Chen was a member of the team which placed first in the Tsinghua Cup Case Competition on May 27. Their presentation earned them the top spot out of a field of 32 teams. Chen and her three teammates were more »More...
Beedie students in podium finish at APEX
May 24, 2012
Students from SFU’s Beedie School of Business finished amongst the top three teams at the recent APEX Biz-IT Global Case Challenge. The competition, hosted by Singapore Management University from 29 April to 3 May, featured 19 teams from top universities across the globe. Each team was tasked with developing working strategies for growth for Brand Karma, a tech start-up company based in Singapore. The Beedie team finished in third place in this year’s competition and more »More...