Graduate Experience · Student Engagement
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[…]
Stephen Hawking rightly said, “Work gives you meaning and purpose, and life is empty without it.” However, I’d revise that to say that “Meaningful work gives us direction in life.”[…]
Graduate Experience · Student Engagement
Amidst the recent news of the discovery of mass and unmarked graves at multiple residential schools, you may be feeling wary about participating in your usual Canada Day celebrations. You[…]
Graduate Experience · Student Engagement
As cliché as it may sound, these are unprecedented times. But as they say, time and opportunities wait for no one. In the past year, many of us have lived[…]
Graduate Experience · Student Engagement
I worked at summer camps and in the outdoor education industry for nearly a decade. I started as a camp counsellor and kept working at various camps until my most[…]
Graduate Experience · Student Engagement
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
If you have read previous case competition reflections on this blog, you will know that competing is no small task. As a member of the Beedie School of Business’ Net[…]
Alumni Experience · Graduate Experience · Student Engagement
The Career Journey Series is aimed at learning more about the career experience of leaders at our school. We hope to present their leadership lessons, principles and values. This would[…]
Graduate Experience · Student Engagement
Carrying forward my experience of interviewing two very different CEOs, for my second blog, I am presenting the excerpts from the interview that I conducted with Gordon Keep – CEO,[…]
Graduate Experience · Student Engagement
I used to work as a busy auditor. Taking about two years off to sit in a classroom might seem unreal as compared to my previous deadline-driven life. It seems[…]
Last week I had the pleasure to attend the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing held in Houston, TX. This conference is the world’s largest gathering of women technologists.[…]
Admissions Tips · Graduate Experience
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
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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
