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Americas MBA cohort converges upon Vancouver
Aug 23, 2012
The Beedie School of Business has this past week played host to visiting students from the USA, Mexico and Brazil, as the Americas MBA for Executives cohort gathers together in Vancouver for the first time. The Americas MBA is an elective stream in the EMBA program at SFU, which brings together students from participating institutions in the four largest economies in the Americas to work together and study business practice and management issues across different 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...
Beedie faculty and alumni engage with Management of Technology sector leaders at PICMET 2012
Aug 15, 2012
Faculty and alumni of the Beedie School of Business engaged with industry and academia in the Technology Management sector at a major conference held in Vancouver recently. PICMET is an annual conference, organized by the Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology, which brings together leading figures from innovation management in a high-impact symposium in order to set the stage for the sector in years to come. The Beedie School of Business was more »More...
4th Annual CIOCAN Leadership Development Program commences in September
Aug 10, 2012
“The quality of the instruction was first class, and the overall cohesiveness of the program was impressive. The amount of prep and assignment work struck the right balance – not so onerous that you were dreading the next class. I have come away with many new insights and will definitely recommend the program to colleagues…in fact, I already have!” Director, Business Solutions, Information Services (previous program participant) This popular program, offered in partnership with the CIO 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...
Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator brings student concepts to reality
Aug 3, 2012
Over the last semester, students at the Beedie School of Business have been bringing to life projects to address tomorrow’s social, environmental and economic challenges with help from the new Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator (SEA) program. The brainchild of Beedie lecturer Shawn Smith, the program ran for six weeks at the SFU Surrey campus, with $10,000 in support from Vancity, and allowed students to enter as teams or individuals in order to generate a feasible business more »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...
Italian fashion students learn what it means to be a Canadian
Jul 31, 2012
Business students from Italy spent July in Vancouver as part of a unique collaboration between SFU’s Beedie School of Business and the Università Bocconi – and were given a crash course in Canadian culture as part of their visit. The visiting students from Bocconi, located in the fashion capital of Italy, Milan, and regarded as Italy’s top business and economics school, were paired with SFU students from the “Business 492: Management of Fashion Companies,” class more »More...
SFU MBAs showcase social entrepreneurship projects at Opportunity Fest Fair
Jul 27, 2012
Students from the MBA program at Simon Fraser University’s Beedie School of Business last week demonstrated their social entrepreneurship business plans at the Opportunity Fest Fair. The exhibition, held in the atrium of the Harbour Centre towers on Wednesday, 18 July, was part of Beedie Professor Eric Gedajlovic’s MBA Entrepreneurship class. Students were split into groups and tasked with creating their own business plans before presenting to a panel of judges consisting of members of more »More...
CMA and Beedie School of Business team up to offer SFU CMA/MBA Combined Program
Jul 26, 2012
The Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University and Certified Management Accountants of British Columbia have come together to deliver the SFU CMA/MBA Combined Program – an innovative and unique program that combines the strategic leadership core of CMA and the results-focused curriculum of the SFU MBA. The curriculum will allow qualified applicants to expedite and reduce the cost of working towards their CMA designation upon completion of their MBA. The highly-regarded designation is more »More...