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Will Mitchell’s Winding Road
Dec 12, 2012
Distinguished business professor’s path – from industrial smelter to some of the world’s most prestigious business faculties – was guided by non-traditional start at SFU. Will Mitchell didn’t come by his decision to attend business school lightly. As an 18 year old, he was pouring lead slag into a furnace for a living at a lead-zinc smelter in Trail, BC when he decided to heed the call of higher learning – from Simon Fraser University. more »More...
Beedie team nets silver at IIBD case competition
Dec 4, 2012
A team of Beedie School of Business students today captured silver in one of Asia’s most rigorous case competitions, the International Institute for Business Development (IIBD) Case Competition. The team, consisting of BBA students Iris Luong, Renee Chau, and Stefanie Klein, along with MBA student Rob Graham, was one of six teams selected to compete in the final from an initial field of 28 entrants from 12 different countries worldwide. The team was awarded a more »More...
MBA connection plants seeds for Saltworks founders
Nov 30, 2012
The following article was published by the Financial Post on November 27, 2012. BY DENISE DEVEAU, FINANCIAL POST MBA programs build entrepreneurs’ bonds Since graduating from the Richard Ivey School of Business’s Certificate in Entrepreneurship program in 2006, Bill Hennessey has opened a number of ventures, including an online lobster company, a cleaning products packaging operation and an experiential marketing firm. In fact, he’s a true dyed-in-the-wool entrepreneur having run his first “business” at the more »More...
MBA Elizabeth Velasque joins Mitacs Accelerate program
Nov 28, 2012
The following article was published by the Vancouver Sun on November 24, 2012. BY GILLIAN SHAW, VANCOUVER SUN For some, inventing is easier than selling Mitacs Accelerate program is a national partnership that aims to develop Canada’s next generation of innovators Michael Gilbert is waging a war on bedbugs. And he’s winning. The president and chief scientific officer of the British Columbia biotech start-up SemiosBio has figured out how to keep the pesky parasites at more »More...
Tackling business head-on
Nov 27, 2012
Former Canadian Football League star discovers a passion for international business With the Canadian Football League (CFL) season in full swing, one of its former stars is embarking on a new chapter in his life. Javier Glatt has swapped the CFL for an MBA – and discovered a passion for international business in the process. After eight years of playing pro football as a linebacker for the CFL’s BC Lions and Edmonton Eskimos, Glatt has more »More...
Nancy McKinstry award pays dividends for Alice Longhurst
Sep 12, 2012
No one could ever accuse Alice Longhurst of being indecisive. In spring 2011 she was working at the Women’s Executive Network (WXN), with no plans to return to higher education. One month later, she was enrolling in the MBA program at SFU’s Beedie School of Business. The Beedie School of Business is the national education partner for WXN, and it was through her director-level position at the WXN in Toronto that Longhurst was first introduced more »More...
Alannah Cervenko aims high after MBA experience
Aug 24, 2012
Beedie School of Business MBA student Alannah Cervenko has accomplished a lot in the last year of her life. But as she prepares to move on from the MBA program to one of the world’s largest mining companies, she intends to use the experience she has gained from it in order to accomplish even more in the future. Cervenko graduated from UBC in 2006 with a degree in Psychology, before going on to work as more »More...
Rachelle Hay parlays MBA journey into new career
Aug 16, 2012
For Beedie School of Business student Rachelle Hay, SFU’s MBA program has delivered everything that she hoped for and more. And as the end of the program approaches, she is looking forward to taking her career to the next level. Hay recently learned that she has been successful in obtaining a role at Orbis Access (Canada) Limited, and will start the position immediately after the MBA program concludes later this year. Yet like many students, more »More...
First Nations trip a transformational experience for SFU MBAs
Aug 9, 2012
This past April, five of them, along with SFU MBA alumnus Lerato Chondoma and MBA Academic Director Dave Hannah, explored and engaged Vancouver Island Indigenous communities in the context of not only business development, but also their traditions, beliefs and customs. The group set off on April 23 to visit Nuu-chah-nulth communities on Vancouver Island – including Tseshaht, Ucluelet and Ahousaht – over the course of six days. The latter First Nation is the largest Nuu-chah-nulth Nation and home to Shawn Atleo, recently re-elected as national leader of Canada’s Assembly of First Nations. During the excursion, the students visited a myriad of leading Indigenous entrepreneurs, small- and medium-sized businesses and government agencies. These included Nuu chah nulth Economic Development Corp., First Nations Wildcrafters, Ucluth Development Corp., Iisaak Forest Resources, Tseshaht Market, White Raven Consulting and Les Sam Construction. They also met First Nations leaders, including Michelle Corfield, an Executive in Residence at the Beedie School of Business and Chair of the Legislature at Ucluelet First Nation and Trevor Jones, CEO of Ucluelet Economic Development.More...
SFU student swaps professional football for an MBA
Aug 1, 2012
With the Canadian Football League season back in full swing, one of its former stars is embarking on a new chapter in his life. Javier Glatt has swapped locker rooms, training sessions and footballs for lecture rooms, study sessions and books. After eight years of playing pro football as a linebacker for the CFL’s BC Lions and Edmonton Eskimos, Glatt is now in the final stages of the MBA program at Simon Fraser University’s Beedie more »More...