How to Complement your MBA Education with Skills Development Workshops
Do you wish that the skills section of your resume was longer or not filled with super-specific software that you used in an earlier role? Is there an area of[…]
Tagged: MBA Student Life
MBA GAMES: The string that connected MBA students during our most disconnected time
The Olympics of the MBA 2021-2022 has successfully ended with joy on the first weekend of January. As the Coronavirus pandemic continues to evolve, the MBA games, like last year,[…]
Graduate Experience · Student Engagement
Student Stories: How to Make Sustainability a Lifestyle
As we move ahead in this century, new words are being coined, and of all those, the buzzword is Sustainability. The dictionary defines it as “avoidance of the depletion of[…]
Graduate Experience · Student Engagement
Student Stories: My Journey as a Mexican International Student in Vancouver, Canada
I arrived in Vancouver at the end of September of 2019, so I was fortunate enough to know a bit of the city for 6 months pre-covid. I was excited[…]
Graduate Experience · Student Engagement
Pop-up Case Competition Challenge: CECU Marketing Strategy
The break between the Spring and Summer terms of our Full-Time MBA program turned out to be more exciting and challenging than we could have imagined. A pop-up case competition,[…]
Graduate Experience · Student Engagement
5 Scenic Places to go for Walks in Vancouver
Vancouver is well known for its abundance of beautiful nature. Mountains, sea, fields, lakes… we have it all. Accessible and wonderful as they are, we sometimes just want to take[…]
Graduate Experience · Student Engagement
Top 5 Ways to Maximize your MBA Experience (Part II)
In part I, we discussed the first two items of my Top-5 List, and I will continue to talk about my experiences related to student clubs, MBA Games, and the[…]
The Graduate Women’s Council and Making the Most of Your MBA Experience
A few months before my MBA journey at SFU began, I heard about the Graduate Women’s Council (GWC) and felt a jolt of energy course through me as I read[…]
Graduate Experience · Student Engagement
From Networking to Relationships: Graduate Women’s Council Run the World Series
“Networking, again” – ever catch yourself thinking this? The first few networking events were exciting, eye-opening and humbling. But as you attend more events, networking increasingly feels like a routine[…]
Graduate Experience · Student Engagement
The East Meets West Leadership Case Competition 2018: Making Connections & Learning to Collaborate
For those of you who have visited Calgary during the winter, you’ll know that it’s no easy task. But despite the winter storm warnings and freezing temperatures, our SFU Beedie[…]
Leeds School of Business Net Impact Case Competition – Whole Health and the Quest for Cultural Change
Last month I had the pleasure of participating in the Leeds School of Business Net Impact Case Competition: Whole Health and the Quest for Cultural Change: Acer Energy. This was[…]
Life at Downtown Vancouver Residency (or Charles Chang Innovation Centre)
Looking for the right place to stay can be challenging, especially for international students. Being new to Vancouver, I was looking for a place closer to school where I could[…]
Race and Case Competition in Denver, Colorado, USA
What an amazing opportunity it was to participate in the Race and Case Competition hosted by the Daniel’s School of Business in Denver, Colorado. Unlike other case competitions, the Race[…]
Net Impact Case Competition in Boulder, Colorado, USA
On the evening of Friday, February 17th, 2017, four students arrived in Boulder, Colorado for the finals of the 16th annual Net Impact Case Competition (NICC). CU Boulder and the Leeds School[…]
EAST MEETS WEST: A Journey of Collaboration, a Lifetime of Memories
“Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never shall the twain meet.” It’s been over a hundred years since Rudyard Kipling penned these words, but it is unlikely[…]