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Ahp-cii-uk partnership seeks to build build ocean-going canoe for Tseshaht community
Nov 2, 2011
The Nuu-chah-nulth community of Tseshaht is the first aboriginal community to pursue funding under a system developed by the Aviva Insurance Company which involves online voting to select finalists for community grants. Tseshaht has proposed the a project to build an ocean-going canoe and a canoe shed, thereby reviving important traditions within the community (carving, paddling, visiting its traditional territories, interchanges with other coastal communities) and engaging its young people. Although Tseshaht was a whaling community in the past, for the last generation or so, Tseshaht has not had a canoe that is seaworthy enough to take on the ocean. This is an opportunity to renew that tradition.More...
Globe and Mail: Beedie to offer an Indigenous Executive MBA
Oct 31, 2011
by Jennifer Lewington, Globe and Mail In a 40-year history of executive MBA education at Simon Fraser University, only 10 indigenous students came to the program. The abysmal record is typical of the under-representation of First Nations, Metis and Inuit students in higher education in Canada.More...
Certificate of Business Technology Management (BTM) addresses labour market needs
Oct 31, 2011
The recently-launched Certificate of Business Technology Management (BTM) - a program that enhances academic and career opportunities for business undergraduates immersed in the realms of technology and innovation - continues to garner significant student body interest at SFU's Beedie School of Business.More...
Banner project lands Green City award
Oct 27, 2011
They’ve saved more than 1,500 pounds of nylon from landfills and in the process, taught hundreds of teens how simple sewing could help the environment. Now a student team from Simon Fraser University is being honored with a Top 3 Green City Award from the City of Surrey for their creative environmental efforts. Their Banner Bags project was chosen in the community group category (one of three categories) at the Surrey 2011 City Awards, held at the new City Centre Library Oct. 25. The student project was created three years ago by a team from Students In Free Enterprise (SIFE), based at SFU Surrey. Students Lauren Watkin, project manager, Sonam Swarup, director of community development, and Beedie alumnus Ashish Gurung, project advisor accepted the award from Mayor Dianne Watts.More...
Beedie prof. Michael Parent ponders low social media usage in municipal politics
Oct 26, 2011
Few candidates for city council have taken to social media despite it being a great way to engage voters, according to one expert. “What surprises me more (than candidates’ lack of use) is that they haven’t realized the power of being able to tap into communities through social media,” said Michael Parent, a business professor at Simon Fraser University. Just seven of 19 candidates for city council have accounts on Twitter—an online social networking service allowing users to send and read short posts. Five have tweeted less than 50 times.More...
Beedie alumni join VANOC, VPD CEOs to share ideas at TEDxSFU
Oct 26, 2011
Sam Thiara, Student Engagement Manager at SFU’s Beedie School of Business, is slated to speak at the upcoming TEDxSFU, the first event of its kind hosted at Simon Fraser University. Thiara, who is also an alumnus of the business school, will be joined by fellow BBA alumnus Shawn Smith, who is co-founder of Global Agents for Change and an instructor of social entrepreneurship at the Beedie School. The TEDxSFU organizing committee is also pleased to more »More...
Executive MBA in Aboriginal Business and Leadership reflects Canada’s new business environment
Oct 25, 2011
The Executive MBA in Aboriginal Business and Leadership cohort at Simon Fraser University’s Beedie School of Business is responding to a growing need by Aboriginal managers and entrepreneurs, as well as individuals and organizations collaborating with Aboriginal communities, for senior-level management education. With classes commencing in 2012, the EMBA cohort is the first of its kind in the country, and will provide executive-level education that reflects the growing role of business development for First Nations. more »More...
Jack Austin Centre analysis: The US/China Currency Dispute, and its Impact on Canada
Oct 24, 2011
Few things rankle Americans more than the sense of dependence on other nations. Dependence creates power in inverse measures. The Chinese government exacerbates this unease by voicing its unhappiness with the central role of the US dollar in the world’s economy. Its vast US dollar holdings – approximately $1.5 trillion – are affected by US monetary policy. As the world’s reserve currency, the US can fund deficits by easing its monetary policies, as the Federal Reserve did in its QEI and QEII efforts to refloat the American economy. A cheaper US dollar means Chinese dollar holdings become less valuable. The Chinese government has indicated that it expects the Yuan to become a reserve currency in the not-too-distant future, and that such a move would be beneficial in that it would reduce the vulnerability of the global economy to the US. China is the second largest economy in the world and there is a sense of inevitability to its increasing economic power. China would like to expand its role in financial markets, building off its economic strengths.More...
BC Business: Schooling Italia: Vancouver’s Fashion Industry
Oct 19, 2011
Visiting fashion students learn a thing or two about la dolce vita in Vancouver. Fashion is born from a region’s distinctive character. That’s the take-away message from a group of Italian students who came to Vancouver for a lesson in fashion management. Last July, 31 undergraduate business students from Milan’s Bocconi University travelled here for the Management of Fashion Companies course offered jointly by Bocconi and SFU’s Beedie School of Business. Six SFU students also took part in the more »More...
Vancouver Sun: Beedie School of Business launches careers and ventures
Oct 19, 2011
Ideas and entrepreneurship are at the heart of the student experience at Simon Fraser University’s Beedie School of Business. In recent years, a number of successful new ventures have been launched by students and alumni – startups that have gone on to local acclaim or global acquisition.More...