Pick up the pace: How speed reading worked for me
How many words can you read per minute? What about at 10 pm at night when faced with a 20 page case study that is due for the next day?[…]
Budget Friendly Eats and Happy Hours for Broke MBA Students
Best Cheap Eats Vancouver is home to some of the best restaurants in North America with over 5000 restaurants in the Greater Vancouver Region alone. As a result, the city is[…]
How to Network Effectively
Business networking is the key component of every business program. The question is how to make it a fun and thrilling experience? Elevator Pitch The most effective tip[…]
Graduate Experience · Student Engagement
My Experience: The Mentors in Business Program
People generally join MBA programs to gain management skills to excel in their career. For me, I want to continue working in Human Resources and was looking to interact with[…]
Graduate Experience · Student Engagement
MSc Finance Students Win 2nd Place at the International PRMIA Risk Management Challenge
On Friday, March 11, four students from the Master of Science in Finance program earned second place in Professional Risk Managers’ International Association (PRMIA) Risk Management Challenge in Chicago, Illinois.[…]
Graduate Experience · Student Engagement
The 2016 “Hult Prize Competition” Experience
After countless ideas, discussions, and hours of work, our team was ready for the big weekend. We finished a marketing class in Vancouver, and then we were off to San[…]
Graduate Experience · Student Engagement
East Meets West: Collaboration & Connections from Coast to Coast
So you may be wondering, what do MBA students do with their free time on weekends? In between studying for our classes, we can be found participating in many case[…]
Extract More Value From Your MBA: Learning to Listen
I could see how a student might approach an MBA as a purely academic exercise and how this could result in missing valuable chances for personal growth that are not[…]
Graduate Experience · Student Engagement
‘Get Warm’ Outreach Day
The Graduate Business Student Association (GBSA) is a student led organization that connects all graduate business students at the Beedie School of Business. The executive team, which consists of: the[…]
Graduate Experience · Student Engagement
The MBA Games: A Bucket List Experience
I totally get it, as an MBA student you’re busy. You’re tackling classes, readings, projects, work, family, kids, pets, hobbies and pretty much everything else in between. It’s not easy[…]
Corporate Impact and Global Development: It Really Is “Our” Time
Reflections on the 2015 International Net Impact Conference How can we use our business careers for “good”? “Net Impact” is an international non-profit enabling business professionals to answer that[…]
Graduate Experience · Student Engagement
The Inaugural BC MBA Games
Connect. Inspire. Impact. That was the theme of this year’s inaugural BC MBA games held in Nanaimo, BC, organized by Omar Karim and Vancouver Island University (VIU). Overall, the weekend[…]
纸上得来终觉浅，绝知此事要躬行
转眼来温哥华已经快一年，MBA 的课业也已接近尾声。这一年里有过想要放弃的冲动，有过欢欣鼓舞的时刻，有过迷茫无措的烦恼，还有一些小小的感悟。于是很高兴有机会写这篇博客。能将这些思考的碎片稍作整理，记录下来与人分享，总是一件开心的事情。
Admissions Tips · Graduate Experience
The Case for Bike Commuting
I have some very important information to share with next year’s MBA cohort: bike commuting is the best way of getting around Vancouver. For those planning on living between 2-10[…]
Graduate Experience · Student Engagement
Importance of Bonding
People come to business schools to improve their careers, not their social life. However, if you really want to live your MBA experience to the fullest, you need to think[…]