Monthly Archives: March 2013

Excel Training: Working Session

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Do you need/want to enhance your excel skills for the summer, and or any excel tests that may be coming up as part of future applications for the summer?

We are offering this “hands-on” training session for students, maximum of 40, to work through exercises to apply and test your skills. Students will work at their own pace, and will get as far as they can based on ability level in 2 hours.

Specific skills you can expect to be covered include: “if” statements, various reference tools, application of vlookup, hlookup and pivot tables, among other things.

Date: Tuesday, May 7                                                                                                             Time: 4:00-6:00 pm                                                                                                         Location: HA 132

Bring your own laptop with Excel installed (can be Mac or PC) and come ready to get down to work!  Sign up on COOL if you are interested in attending this session.

Important note: If you attended the MDA session last fall, don’t attend, as there won’t be new learning for you.

P4 Exam Week- Room Designations

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P4 Exam Week is just around the corner. For next week’s exams you will all be designated into rooms for BA 561- Global Issues and Macroeconomics. The rooms will be separated alphabetically. Please review the attached documents before the exam so you know which room you will be writing the exam in. There will be copies posted on doors for your own reference.

Room Designations:
BA 561 Room List HA132

BA 561 Room List HA133

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to email askmba@sauder.ubc.ca

Key Dates for P4 – P7, Business in Society Project information

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Just a reminder about Key Program Dates for P4-P5 and announcing program dates for P6-P7, which are also on your Connect site in the Program Calendar page: myMBA Program > Schedules & Registration > Program Calendar:

  • P4 – Feb 25 – Apr 6
  • Holiday Break Week – Apr 7 – 12
  • P5 – Apr 15 – May 25
  • Business in Society Project – May 27 – 30th (required component of your MBA Program – falls under BA 507 Context Integration)
  • Summer Experiential Learning – May 31 – Sept 1
  • P6 – Sept 3 – Oct 12
  • Job Search Week – Oct 14 – 18 – optional BCC programming this week
  • P7 – Oct 21 – Nov 30 – required BCC event on Friday Oct 25
  • Capstone – Dates TBD
  • MBA Gala Dinner – Friday Dec 6th

Also a reminder about the Business in Society Project that will take place at the end of P5 for 4 days. This project is worth 1.5 credits, and falls under the BA 507 Context Integration course code. It’s a required component of your MBA program, and will be led by Moura Quayle and James Tansey, who have now provided our office with the outline for this course: BA 507 – Business in Society Project Outline.
If you have any questions about the above please direct them to askmba@sauder.ubc.ca

MBA Students with Healthcare background-trip to Warwick Business School

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An invitation from the Sauder EMBA Program to MBA students  who have a healthcare background and may be interested in attending:

EMBA 526 International Health Care Systems
2013 WBS Europe Trip Flyer

We are very excited to be taking our EMBA in Health Care students to a new destination in Europe.  Attached is the course outline for our trip to Warwick Business School in Coventry, England.

We are pleased to offer an opportunity for MBA students who are in healthcare to attend.  The cost for non-EMBA students is $2000.  This includes:

  • participation in the course (as a credit or audit student)
  • accommodation for six nights (June 22 – 28 or June 23 – 29)
  • daily breakfast at the residence
  • meals that require attendance (e.g. the opening dinner)

All other meals and expenses are your responsibility.  Here is a link to the accommodation on the campus: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/conferences/ourvenues/radcliffe/

The course will officially begin with the opening dinner at 5PM on Sunday June 23rd.  There is an optional tour of Warwick Castle prior to the dinner.  All students are required to attend the dinner so please ensure your travel plans allow you to arrive in Coventry with time to check-in and get ready.  The program will run until approximately 4PM on Friday June 28.    It is 1 hour by train from London to Coventry.  There is also coach service.  Please see this link for details: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/about/visiting

On Wednesday June 26 we will have a site visit in the morning and will then be dropped at a tube station on the outskirts of London.  You will have the afternoon and evening at your leisure.  Plans will be made for the coach to pick-up students at a designated time and location, although students are welcome to make their own way back (travel options/directions will be provided).

All students on the trip must complete all the required readings.  All student are also required to attend all lectures, site visits, planned functions and stay until the program closes.  Dress for functions and site visits is business casual.  It is recommended you have business attire for the Tuesday dinner with the Dean if possible.

There will be no spousal program for this trip.  Coventry is a small city with little entrainment or tourism.  We suggest that you make plans with family before or after the trip.  We can book double occupancy accommodation at WBS should you require it.  Any additional expenses are your responsibility.

Please let Imogene know by April 5th if you would like us to reserve a spot for you on the trip and which dates you would like the accommodation.  Also indicate whether or not you will be taking the trip for credit and whether or not you would like to participate in the optional castle tour.

Payment in full is due by April 15th. Please send payment to Imogene (Imogene.huxham@sauder.ubc.ca)

C-Lab Project

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Sauder School of Business is trying to reach out the business community and showcase the interesting things that your MBA class is doing.  We want to help you connect to the Vancouver community through the C-Lab Project.  We would like to share your Global Immersion adventures, club events, and general interests and activities on the C-Lab.  You all have already written posts for Global Immersion and your award winning stories, and they should be apart of the C-Lab! Please visit http://c-labproject.com/ to share your stories, or contact Mark Huvenaars, mark.huvenaars3@gmail.com or Haley Shoemaker, haleyshoemaker@gmail.com about sharing your MBA experiences.

HKCBA “Hong Kong Connection” Annual Spring Dinner

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2013 VOLUNTEER RECRUITMENT

Interested in meeting many influential people at this gala event? The Hong Kong Canada Business Association  is hosting their annual spring dinner event with over 600 guests. If you  would like to volunteer, and meet many in our local community, respond to the contact email below. Please note the timing of the commitment is for the better part of the day.

Each year this signature dinner attracts over 600 guests and is being recognized as one of Vancouver’s most successful and premier business networking functions.  Join as a volunteer will certainly provide you great opportunities to make friends and gain valuable business contacts in the local Canadian and Chinese business community.  After this event, all volunteers will also be invited to join the “Volunteer Appreciation Dinner” to meet and greet our HKCBA Board of Directors!  Click here to view our board of directors list.  Don’t forget to circulate this to your friends who are interested to volunteer too!

Time: Full Day Availability Preferred (1:00pm to 9:30pm)

Dress Code: Business Formal Attire

Meeting Location: 3rd Floor Oxford Room, Hyatt Regency Hotel in downtown Vancouver

**Dinner will be provided during the event day.

Please CONFIRM your availability and interest to vancouver@hkcba.com

An official HKCBA thank you letter will be presented to you as a token of our appreciation.

More Information about the event: http://vancouver.hkcba.com/cgi/page.cgi?aid=212&_id=1&zine=show

Key Deadlines: Mar 25-28

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Happy Friday! We hope that you have been able to enjoy the sunshine today.

Below are some key program/internship deadlines that we would like to highlight for you. You will find application details for each posting below on COOL.

Brand Management Mentorship Program 2013– Monday, March 25 by 2:00 pm

The Canadian Council for Public-Private Partnerships (CCPPP)– Monday, March 25

PenderFund Capital Management- Tuesday, March 26

Seaspan (2 postings)- Wednesday, March 27

Genome British Columbia/Smartt /VCH- Thursday, March 28

Have a great weekend!

 

ePortfolio

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Hello all,

I have a two follow-ups on the ePortfolio.

  • In a previous post, I had asked you to change your privacy settings in your portfolio. However, I notice that many portfolios are still not viewable. If you have not done so already, could you please navigate to Dashboard > Settings > Reading and change the setting to: “I would like my site to be visible only to Registered network users.” This will allow staff and faculty with CWL’s to view your posts.
  • At present, there are only 4 students who have published their posts to the ubcmbasmakeadifference (aggregator) site. When you create a post, if you feel that it is something you are proud of and you want to showcase, then you need to send that post to ubcmbasmakeadifference. To do so, on the top right of your “Add New Post” page (where you write your post), under the “Publish” section, please click the area directly under “Publish Immediately” – there you will have the option of also publishing your post to an external site, in this case ubcmbasmakeadifference.
  • At present, ubcmbasmakeadifference is viewable only by people within the UBC network. Once we have enough strong examples of work, we will then make it public.

If you are having difficulty, or have questions, please get in touch with myself, Rodrigo or Carly and we will be pleased to assist you.

Paul Stothart Memorial Scholarship in Mineral Economics

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Each year, the Mining Association of Canada (MAC) will award $3,500 to a
recipient of the Paul Stothart Memorial Scholarship. Candidates must be enrolled
in a Canadian university studying either a Bachelor or Master of Economics, or a
Master of Business Administration (MBA), and must demonstrate an interest in
mineral economics.

ELIGIBILITY
Candidates must be enrolled full-time in their second, third or fourth year of a Bachelor of Economics degree or in their first or second year of a Master of Economics or MBA program. Applicants must also demonstrate an interest, supported by current or intended course work, in mineral economics or mining commerce.

HOW TO APPLY
Send completed application packages by April 15 to:
The Mining Association of Canada
350 Sparks Street, Suite 1105
Ottawa, ON K1R 7S8
For further information, please contact: Marilyn Fortin
at mfortin@mining.ca or 613-233-9392 ext. 322.

Click here for additional information

Internships/Entrepreneurial Projects: Required Documentation

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Regarding summer internships and entrepreneurial projects, we have posted all the documentation on Connect > My MBA Career under the tab “Internships 2013”. As the summer experience is a for-credit component of the program, all students need to be aware of and take action on these documents.

While we shared this information at the Welcome Back in January, we wanted to reiterate some of the key details:

  • Your summer internship/entrepreneurial project is worth 1.5 credits
  • As an academic component, there is required documentation before, during and after the summer. Please review the documentation. Carly Boettcher is your go-to-person for collecting documents and fielding questions.
  • Whether you are pursuing an internship or entrepreneurial project, you are required to have a faculty supervisor. Please review the documentation. Once you have secured your internship, or decided on an entrepreneurial project, you need to approach your Track Champion, who will assign you an appropriate faculty person and in the case of entrepreneurial projects, Paul Cubbon.
  • The deadlines for when they are due are included in the Guidelines document posted. (The guidelines explains everyone’s responsibility in the process, from faculty to employer, to yourself.)
  • If you are pursuing there is no action item until you have secured your internship.

As we need to account for everyone in the class, all of you will need to fill in one of two forms, the internship agreement form, or the entrepreneurial agreement form. You may also be asked by an internship employer to sign a NDA, or confidentiality agreement form and this is found in this folder too.

If you need any clarity about the forms, please set up a meeting with your career advisor.  For those of you who have secured an internship, please reach out to your Track Champion, as they are responsible for assigning you to an appropriate faculty person.  We look forward to helping you through the process.