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Beedie alumni put applications in spotlight with AppTV
Apr 8, 2011
Innovative new weekly digest to feature the useful and the fun from the world of apps VANCOUVER– Two alumni from Simon Fraser University’s Beedie School of Business — Maryam Mehrtash (BBA ’06) and Andy Baryer (MBA ’08) — are leading an effort to bring mobile applications to the living rooms of television viewers across Canada. Mehrtash — an expert in social media, marketing and entertainment — will host the program along with Mike Agerbo. Baryer more »More...
Better Off Guessing? Measuring the Quality of NHL Draft Decisions
Apr 8, 2011
Watch video of Beedie professor Peter Tingling’s presentation to the MIT Sloan Sports Conference. Click here.More...
Students innovate for society and enterprise at first-ever Opportunity Fest
Apr 8, 2011
An innovative social enterprise aiming to provide people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) with meaningful employment opportunities was the big winner at a Beedie School of Business entrepreneurship competition held at SFU’s Surrey campus. The business model was put forth by Team “Aspire” – consisting of Beedie School undergraduate students Alice Chen, Matt Armstrong, Joanne Chen, Robbie Hsieh, Justin Findlay. Their idea leverages the characteristics of autism as a competitive advantage in the software testing more »More...
Opportunity Fest highlights student ventures
Apr 7, 2011
Contact: Eric Gedajlovic, 778.782.5168; erg@sfu.ca Marianne Meadahl, PAMR, 778.782.3210;marianne_meadahl@sfu.ca April 4, 2011 Student entrepreneurs are preparing to showcase their class-produced ventures to the wider business community as part of Simon Fraser University Surrey’s Opportunity Fest on April 7 from 7 – 9 p.m. They’re also vying for the chance to be crowned Mr. and Ms. Opportunity. “This is like a Capstone experience for these undergraduate students,” said Eric Gedajlovic, a professor at SFU’s Beedie School of Business, which is more »More...
Marketing PhDs awarded scholarships for upcoming AMS Conference in Coral Gables, Florida
Apr 5, 2011
Anjali Bal, Kirk Plangger and Adam Mills — all marketing PhD students at Simon Fraser University’s Beedie School of Business — have been awarded scholarships by the Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) to attend the Academy’s upcoming conference in Coral Gables, Florida. The Academy of Marketing Science is the largest marketing association in North America that caters only to marketing academics, and will be celebrating its 40th anniversary at the Coral Gables Conference, which will more »More...
SFU launches Americas MBA program with top business schools
Apr 5, 2011
FIA (Brazil), ITAM (Mexico) and Vanderbilt University (USA) team up with SFU’s Beedie School of Business to partner on new executive program focused on the Americas VANCOUVER– Four of the most widely respected graduate business schools in North and South America are partnering to offer an innovative new Master of Business Administration program for international executives starting in August 2011. Called the Americas MBA for Executives, the two-year degree program provides 60 students with the more »More...
MBA students win big at social finance showdown
Apr 1, 2011
Matt Harris and Dave Crozier, students in Simon Fraser University’s full-time MBA program, were the winners of the Vancouver for Acumen Fund Team Social Finance Case Challenge (MBA division) held on March 26 at SFU’s Surrey campus. A total of 25 MBA teams competed in the competition. In the final round, Harris and Crozier edged out a team from the University of British Columbia to take the top prize. The social finance showdown is geared more »More...
Andrew Gemino on his Excellence in Teaching award
Mar 28, 2011
March 24, 2011. SFU News Online It’s not unusual for business professor Andrew Gemino to encounter former students who still remember the concepts he taught them almost 20 years ago.His quirky demonstrations of abstract concepts are always engaging and are one of the reasons he received a 2010 SFU Excellence in Teaching award last month. He recalls, for example, a rainy summer semester when he told students of the uncanny correlation he had noticed between more »More...
SFU Excellence in Teaching Award winner Andrew Gemino on sharing with students
Mar 28, 2011
Good instructors recognize that sometimes simply knowing the content is not enough. You also need to understand how to effectively share your knowledge with your students. For Andrew Gemino, one of this year’s three Excellence in Teaching Award recipients, being a good teacher is about, “creating an environment where students want to learn and have fun learning.” He makes a point of engaging his students by adopting a friendly attitude, breaking the ice with ‘fireside more »More...
Beedie School students collect over 10,000 books to increase literacy skills in BC
Mar 23, 2011
Burnaby, BC – The BIG Book Drive team made up of three Simon Fraser University students, Joseph Choi, Alex Venetis and Steffi Chua would like to thank the residents of BC for their incredible support and generosity on February 26th and March 19-20, 2011 in Richmond and Burnaby, respectively. Altogether, these communities donated more than 10,000 books to The BIG Book Drive, all of which is benefiting the Salvation Army’s Family Services to provide low-income more »More...