Beedie School of Business

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SFU's Beedie School of Business
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Type Public
Established1965
Accreditation AACSB, EQUIS
Dean Carolyn Egri
Academic staff
250
Undergraduates 3,800
Postgraduates 800 (MBA, EMBA, IBL EMBA, MSc Fin, MOT MBA, PhD, GDBA)
Location,
British Columbia
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Canada

49°16′47″N122°55′08″W / 49.2796°N 122.91875°W / 49.2796; -122.91875 (Burnaby campus)
Website http://beedie.sfu.ca/

SFU's Beedie School of Business ("SFU Beedie") is the business school at Simon Fraser University (SFU) with multiple campuses across the Lower Mainland in British Columbia, Canada. Simon Fraser University was founded in 1965 and by 1982, the business discipline had grown to sufficient size to become its own distinct faculty, and the Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) degree was established. [1] In 2022, SFU Beedie celebrates its 40th anniversary.

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SFU Beedie operates on all three SFU campuses, with over 3,800 undergraduate BBA students in the Vancouver suburbs of Burnaby and Surrey; over 800 MBA and graduate students in SFU Beedie's Segal Graduate School in downtown Vancouver and SFU Surrey; non-credit programs at the director, executive and management levels; and a PhD program.

In 1968, SFU Beedie established the Executive MBA (EMBA) program, the first of its kind in Canada. Since 2000, the school has launched the Management of Technology MBA, the Master of Science in Finance program, and a full-time and part-time MBA. In 2011, the school launched the world's first Executive MBA for the Americas in partnership with graduate business schools at Vanderbilt University (U.S.), Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (Mexico) and Institute of Management Foundation (Brazil). That same year, it launched Canada's first Indigenous Business Leadership Executive MBA, the first accredited MBA program in North America addressing Indigenous business, economic development and entrepreneurship. In 2011, the school received a donation in the amount of $22 million from alumnus Ryan Beedie and his father Keith, establishing SFU's Beedie School of Business. In 2014, the school introduced the Graduate Certificate in Science and Technology Commercialization, a full-time certificate program providing research scientists and engineers with the frameworks, perspectives, and techniques needed for fostering product development and commercialization. In 2016, SFU Beedie alumnus Charles Chang presented a $10 million gift to Simon Fraser University to establish SFU's Charles Chang Institute for Entrepreneurship. SFU Beedie partnered with Mitacs in 2019 to develop the Mitacs Invention to Innovation (i2I) skills training program, now a national program with regional delivery partners Queen’s, Polytechnique, Memorial and Dalhousie Universities.

SFU's Beedie School of Business is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) and the European Quality Improvement System (EQUIS). SFU Beedie is ranked among the top ten business schools in Canada by Maclean's.

Campuses

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SFU's Burnaby campus

Burnaby

SFU Beedie's Burnaby campus is home to the Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) undergraduate program, which hosts over 3,800 students.

Surrey

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SFU's Surrey campus

SFU Beedie's Surrey campus is a 30,000 square-metre institution located at Central City in Surrey. The building, designed by architect Bing Thom, has won numerous national and international awards. SFU's Beedie School of Business offers the undergraduate Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program and the Part-Time MBA Program at the Surrey campus.

Downtown Vancouver: SFU Beedie's Segal Graduate School

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SFU Beedie's Segal Graduate School campus

A 1916 building located at the corner of Granville and Pender Streets in downtown Vancouver, SFU Beedie's Segal Graduate School is home to SFU's graduate business programs. It honours the university's former chancellor and SFU Beedie supporter Joseph Segal.

Opened in 2005 and previously the Western Canada headquarters for the Bank of Montreal, the building underwent a $20 million renovation under architect Paul Merrick. The designers were able to retain many of the building's original features and materials, including marble columns, decorative plaster mouldings and stair balustrades. Two of the original vault doors were refurbished and installed as a decorative feature at the entrance to the student commons area.

The downtown campus of SFU's Beedie School of Business is home to all graduate programs, including: the Executive MBA, MBA, Indigenous Business Leadership Executive MBA, Management of Technology MBA, Master of Science in Finance, Graduate Diploma in Business Administration, and PhD.

Jack Austin Centre for Asia-Pacific Business Studies

The Jack Austin Centre for Asia-Pacific Business Studies is a joint venture of SFU's Beedie School of Business and the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada to provide research, outreach and training activities on business issues that are relevant to Canada's interests in the Asia Pacific region with a focus on innovation and entrepreneurship. The centre was named for Jack Austin, in recognition of his work in Asia–Canada relations. [2]

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References

  1. "SFU Beedie: Our History". Simon Fraser University. Retrieved 11 December 2019.[ third-party source needed ]
  2. "Jack Austin Centre for Asia Pacific Business Studies". SFU Beedie. Retrieved December 11, 2019.