SFU Beedie offers many extra-curricular activities that enhance your overall experience; one of these opportunities is to be a part of a student-led club. I was privileged to have been[…]
Graduate Experience · Student Engagement
Living in Vancouver City, one of the most culturally diverse cities globally, is an enriching experience in itself. Our MBA cohort has students from 19 different countries, and it presents[…]
Graduate Experience · Student Engagement
The MBA program at SFU’s Segal Graduate School of Business presents unique opportunities for students to interact with renowned professors, eminent business professionals, guest speakers for various events, and the[…]
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.”[…]
It was a sunny afternoon when I attended a workshop hosted by SFU Net Impact, featuring Dr. Andrew J. Hoffman—a leader in using organizational, network and strategic analyses to assess[…]
The PRMIA Risk Management Challenge (PRMC) is organized by the renowned Professional Risk Managers’ International Association each year. It provides students from different parts of the world the opportunity to[…]
One of the key aspects of the SFU MBA experience is the program’s cohort-based learning structure in which a group of students are assigned to specific teams for an entire[…]
“Vancouver? But that’s halfway across the world from here!” That was one of the remarks that some of my friends and family in Poland would make upon hearing that I[…]
Graduate Experience · Student Engagement
Purpose, meaning, impact—finding holistic fulfillment through your career has become an increasingly popular area of discussion for both corporations and university students. Net Impact’s 2017 conference (NI17) brought together industry[…]
With the first year of my Executive MBA (EMBA) experience now complete, I believe it’s only natural to take stock and reflect upon the lessons learned from the first 12[…]
Alumni Experience · Graduate Experience
We completed our Executive MBA at SFU in June 2017 after almost 2 years of hard work—classes every other weekend, lots of group work, presentations, papers, and travels (for those[…]
“Make the most of your MBA” was the advice that someone gave me before moving to Vancouver from Lima, Peru, my home country. At the time, I thought that meant[…]
Articles proclaiming the benefits of exercise and the importance of work-life balance are not new. An article published in the Harvard Business Review stated that exercise reduces stress and helps[…]
Graduate Experience · Student Engagement
The Japanese term ikigai frames one’s reason for being as a combination of what one loves to do, what one is good at, what one can be paid for, and[…]
A few of my colleagues and I hosted an event last week called “Planting the Seeds of Hope”* — a fundraiser for the Alan & Ghalib Kurdi Foundation. This[…]
