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[…]
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Tips for Managing Multicultural Teams
Diverse teams can be challenging and in today’s multicultural workplaces, managers need to know how to leverage differences to maximize performance outcomes. As MBA candidates at the Beedie School of[…]
How to Make Group Meetings More Efficient?
Group meetings play an important role in almost every course in the MBA program. Efficient group meetings help you better understand the course content and give you more time to[…]
My Transition to the MBA Program from the Graduate Diploma in Business Administration (GDBA) Program
Transferring into the MBA program was easy and welcoming, and I want to share that experience with you. I went through the Graduate Diploma in Business Administration (GDBA) before transferring[…]
Graduate Experience · Student Engagement
The Success of the Second Annual SFU Beedie Net Impact Sustainability Challenge
On April 18, 2015, the Second Annual SFU Beedie Net Impact Sustainability Challenge was held at the Segal Graduate School in downtown Vancouver. This competition is the only one of[…]
Graduate Experience · Student Engagement
Student MBAs Host the Second Annual SFU Beedie Net Impact Sustainability Challenge
The SFU Beedie Sustainability Challenge will be held on April 18, 2015 at the SFU Segal building in downtown Vancouver. This case competition presents an opportunity for MBA students from[…]
Graduate Experience · Student Engagement
MBA Games – More than just winning
Travelling to Hamilton to compete in the MBA Games was not just about having a great time; it had begun much earlier than that. This year’s theme for the MBA[…]
Graduate Experience · Student Engagement
What the MBA Games meant to me
It has been less than a week since the MBA Games and I still feel the energy from an event that shaped my MBA experience within the full time program.[…]
Beedie School of Business Admissions Tips
I still remember the angst I endured during the admission process. A huge part of it was the comprehensive set of requirements that must be met coupled with the uncertainty[…]
Wahiba Chair – The Stars of Science and “CarrotLines”
Wahiba Chair (SFU MBA ’08) is nourishing the Vancouver Technology scene with her fantastic new mobile application “CarrotLines“. Wahiba is one of these individuals who has entrepreneurism in her blood,[…]
EPIC Vancouver – Sustainability Advice for MBA Students
Ethical. Progressive. Intelligent. Consumer. (Company). EPIC is Western Canada’s largest sustainable living and working expo. In a city with a plethora of green space, one of the largest inner-city parks[…]
MBA Stress? Canadian Business has a Lot to Offer
In my opinion, Canadian MBA students and students in Vancouver are studying in one of the least stress conductive environments that exist in North America. I’d like to speak for[…]
SFU MBA Student Testimonial – Why SFU MBA Program
I chose to apply to the Simon Fraser University (SFU), Master of Business Administration (MBA) program for a number of reasons. When I first attended the information session for the[…]
New to the SFU Student Blog – Start Here">New to the SFU Student Blog – Start Here
Hello, and welcome to A Few Good Minds, the SFU MBA Student Blog, written here in Vancouver by current students and Alumni of SFU’s MBA programs. We understand that if[…]
SFU Vancouver MBA Admission Criteria – “Compensatory Model”
The admission’s department at SFU’s Segal School of Graduate Business calls it “recruiting”, but I call it helping out someone in the same position as I was once in –[…]