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Category: Graduate Experience

Graduate Experience

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Supply chain challenges between the Andes and the ocean: Notes from the Chile MBA trip

  • May 27, 2011

We landed in Santiago, Chile on Sunday, May 22, 2011 for a weeklong field study trip as part of the SFU Beedie School of Business MBA program. The first thing[…]

Graduate Experience

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Chile – So far so good!

  • May 26, 2011

It’s Tuesday night, and the Canucks just won the conference finals. There is a group of 15 SFU MBA students in Chile, and we’re having a blast! So far we[…]

Graduate Experience

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A glass of Viña Errazuriz to cap off MBA ride

  • May 13, 2011

And then there was one. One semester left, that is. It’s hard to believe that we are approaching the home stretch of this intensive one-year MBA program and that in[…]

Graduate Experience

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Politics, business, and the U-Pass: Get to know the Graduate Student Society

  • April 20, 2011

After a successful campaign, I was elected to be the Operations and Finance Officer of Graduate Student Society (GSS). GSS is a student-run, not-for-profit organization, and the official representative body for all Masters and PhD students at SFU. The GSS represents over 4,400 graduate students for SFU’s decision-making bodies.

Graduate Experience

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My Life as an International Student in Canada and SFU by Elif Boz (Edited by Lauren Looi)

  • April 8, 2011

My name is Elif Boz. I am an international student from Turkey, and I am a candidate of Master of Financial Risk Management (MFRM) at SFU.

Our program welcomes students from all around the world, which is indicative of the fact that 80% of the students are international. SFU offers an international student office on the Burnaby campus that provides mentorship programs and advisory services. You can always find a helping hand at SFU.

Graduate Experience

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Business Career Expo 2011 by Michelle Au

  • April 4, 2011

Wow! I just got back from the 2011 Business Career Expo, and it was an amazing experience. As an MBA student, I was able to attend the luncheon before the[…]

Graduate Experience

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Job finding in the financial industry; challenges and resolutions. By Sara Moghaddamjoo (Edited By Lauren Looi)

  • March 25, 2011

As part of the upcoming Business Career Expo on March 25, we are running special commentaries from our graduate business students on the hunt for the best jobs in the worlds[…]

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Information Interviews – You gotta do it! by Michelle Au

  • March 24, 2011

As part of the upcoming Business Career Expo on March 25, we are running special commentaries from our graduate business students on the hunt for the best jobs in the worlds[…]

Graduate Experience

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Student-Managed $10 Million Fund Soars, by Lauren Looi, edited by Derek Wong

  • March 15, 2011

On February 24, 2011 finance professionals and students alike gathered in the foyer of the Segal Graduate School campus in downtown Vancouver. As they walked into the building, they were greeted with[…]

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MBAs make a meal out of multiculturalism by Taralyn Day

  • March 10, 2011

As part of the MBA curriculum, we recently completed a six-week course in cross cultural management taught by Dr. Anne Marie Francesco. The course focused on strategies and frameworks used[…]

Graduate Experience

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Taking you to the front row: SIAS 2010 Performance Overview (By Meadow Wu, edited by Lauren Looi)

  • March 4, 2011

Starting at $7 million in 2003, the SIAS Fund has grown to over $10 million after years of hard work by SFU’s GAWM and MFRM students. On February 21st 2011,[…]

Graduate Experience

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The MBA Games Experience Revisited by Lee O’Donnell

  • February 22, 2011

Vancouver at four in the morning in the wintertime looks a lot like an alien planet: Closed shops, vacant streets, and dimly lit homes all bathed in a gray lunar[…]

Graduate Experience

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SFU SIAS: North America’s best student-run value investment fund. (By Sara Moghaddamjoo, edited by Lauren Looi.)

  • February 18, 2011

As a candidate in the Master of Financial Risk Management (FRM) program, one of the most rewarding experiences has definitely been the unique opportunity to attain a real understanding of[…]

Graduate Experience

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Introducing the Beedie School of Business by Taralyn Day

  • February 16, 2011

February 9 was an exciting day for SFU Business—we were re-named the Beedie School of Business in recognition of an extremely generous gift from Ryan and Keith Beedie. The $22 million[…]

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A sneak peak into MFRM by Lauren Looi, edited by Simon Hutchison

  • February 11, 2011

Hello Everyone! Welcome to the inaugural post from the Master of Finance Risk Management (MFRM) program. We are very excited to be a part of the ‘A Few Good Minds’[…]

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