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Globe and Mail: Universities that teach you to change the world
Oct 23, 2013
The following extract is from an article published in the Globe and Mail on October 22, 2013, and features commentary from David Dunne, Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Beedie School of Business, and chair of RADIUS. New initiatives are popping up on campuses across the country. This fall, the University of British Columbia in Burnaby, B.C., offered a new course, informally known as Entrepreneurship 101 and developed in collaboration with its Sauder School of Business, for more »More...
Beedie School of Business shows appreciation for Ryan Beedie
Oct 21, 2013
Beedie School of Business students, faculty and staff banded together to pay homage to Ryan Beedie and family, as they showed their appreciation for the $22 million donation the family made to the school in February 2011. The Ryan Beedie appreciation night allowed the students and faculty the chance to network with Ryan, and demonstrate some of the opportunities made possible by the Beedie family’s generous gift. The evening featured speeches from Daniel Shapiro, Dean more »More...
First Nations need to share in B.C.’s future resource boom
Oct 1, 2013
The following article was published by The Vancouver Sun on October 1, 2013 By Mark Selman, Program Director, EMBA in Aboriginal Business and Leadership, Beedie School of Business. The biggest challenge and opportunity facing British Columbia is reconciliation, or the development of respectful relationships and equality between Aboriginal Peoples and the rest of British Columbians. This is not only a social and an ethical challenge and opportunity, it is also an economic challenge and opportunity more »More...
Financial Post: Teaching women to be more confident about their achievements
Sep 26, 2013
The following article was published in the Financial Post on September 25, 2013. Colleen Collins likes to illustrate the difference between men and women moving up the executive ranks with an anecdote. “If a woman sees a job with 12 requirements, and she can meet 10 of them, she won’t think she’s qualified to apply. But a man with only two of [the 12] skills believes he is,” says the former associate dean for Simon more »More...
Beedie set to welcome back CKNW’s CEO Series
Sep 17, 2013
The Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University will this fall team once again with prominent Vancouver radio station CKNW News Talk 980 to bring management and entrepreneurship insights from some of Canada’s leading business minds to the SFU community. “The Chief Executives” program will bring a selection of the country’s top executives – ranging from outdoor equipment retailer Mountain Equipment Co-op to international gold extraction giant Goldcorp – to SFU’s downtown Vancouver campus more »More...
Beedie professor Mark Selman honoured by Industry Council for Aboriginal Business
Sep 3, 2013
The following is an excerpt from the full article published in The Globe and Mail on August 30, 2013. A professor at Simon Fraser University’s Beedie School of Business has been honoured for his work on indigenous issues. Prof. Mark Selman developed Beedie’s Executive MBA in Indigenous Business and Leadership in consultation with First Nation, Metis and Inuit leaders, with the program`s first class of 25 students scheduled to graduate in spring, 2015. The program, more »More...
Hockey’s been good to BBA alumnus and Alpha Technologies CEO Mark Schnarr
Aug 1, 2013
The following article was published by Business in Vancouver on July 31, 2013. Mark Schnarr is a SFU BBA alumnus. It’s been years since Alpha Technologies CEO Mark Schnarr laced ’em up for the Kelowna Buckaroos, but the lessons he learned and connections he made on the ice continue to influence his corporate career today Hockey’s been good to Mark Schnarr. The game has taught the Alpha Technologies president and CEO about fairness, hard work and the importance more »More...
Axiom News: At RADIUS, Students are Launching Social Ventures
Jul 18, 2013
The following article was published by Axiom News on July 15, 2013. Twenty-one-year-old Xinyan Chen took her first social entrepreneurship class at RADIUS (RADical Ideas Useful to Society) last spring. Now, she and four co-founders are launching EnableLife, an online community for people with disabilities and their support network to share tips and tricks to enable easier living. It’s this quick turnaround, from a useful idea to establishing a social venture, that a new Vancouver program more »More...
Beedie sets new standards for case competition training – and results
Jul 8, 2013
In 2012, the spring semester of undergraduate business case competitions saw Beedie School of Business teams achieve relatively strong results, including a podium finish for the APEX Business-IT Global Case Challenge team. Despite the admirable performances, however, the consensus was that the school’s students were capable of achieving even more. Fast forward one year, and the 2013 spring semester saw Beedie School of Business teams achieve podium finishes at every single undergraduate case competition entered: more »More...
Shafik Bhalloo and Anthony Chan announced as TD Canada Trust Distinguished Teaching Award 2013 winners
Jul 5, 2013
Beedie School of Business lecturers Shafik Bhalloo and Anthony Chan have been named as recipients of the 2013 TD Canada Trust Distinguished Teaching Award, the highest teaching honour at SFU’s Beedie School of Business. The TD Canada Trust Distinguished Teaching Awards are presented each year to the two teachers at Beedie who exemplify qualities such as engagement, organization, discipline, enthusiasm and support in their teaching. Since 1990, Beedie School of Business students, faculty and alumni more »More...