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B-Clinic Opportunities

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Posted on behalf of Murali:

Hi all,

Hope you have had a super break after a productive GIE!

As you return, we are pleased to be able to offer you 5 b-clinic opportunities. We were initially going to hold the b-clinic projects for the P6 and P7, but owing to requests from many of you and the availability of several projects, we are offering them now for P4 leading into the summer.

Attached you will find two documents. The first outlines what the b-clinic projects are, work-load requirement, credit offering, and processes. The second outlines the five opportunities available.

Business Clinic Projects
b-clinic 2014 Spring opportunities

If you are interested in any of these projects, you will need to do the following:
• Send an email to Eveline Lam (eveline.lam@sauder.ubc.ca) with subject line reading “Interest in b-clinic project”
• In the email clearly specify the project in which you are interested
• Attach a copy of your resume
Each team will be no more than 4 students — if more than 4 students apply for a project, Murali, in conjunction with the client, will make the decision on the team composition.

We will be aiming to kick off the projects in the week of March 17.

If you have any questions that need answering before you throw your hat into the ring, send an email to Murali Chandrashekaran (murali@sauder.ubc.ca)

Best,
Murali

Financial Times MBA Challenge

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The FT MBA Challenge is an annual challenge inviting MBA alumni and students to consult on problems faced by FT seasonal appeal partners. The challenge launches every January in the FT MBA magazine and runs until September with winners announced in October and interviewed for ft.com.

Teams can be made up of between three and eight students, of whom at least one must be studying at a university of business school in Europe, a second in the Americas and a third in Asia or Africa. At least one participant in each team must be studying for an MBA at the point of registration. If you are looking for partners FT does coordinate a matching process.

This year’s seasonal appeal partner is World Child Cancer.

To register for the challenge, email mba.challenge@ft.com. The deadline to register is 31 March 2014.  Further details are available on these FAQs.

Have your say on Twitter #FTchallenge

 

P4 Course Registration

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Welcome Back from GIE!

Please advised that the first day of Period 4 is Monday, March 10, 2014.

Course Registration:
Instructions: You can register for modules by logging into the SSC with your CWL. There are video tutorials at the bottom left side of the SSC website to guide you on how to register for modules; if you need a refresher.

Here is the link to the most updated schedule, outlines and track sheets: http://www.sauder.ubc.ca/Programs/MBA/MBA_Full_Time/Current_Students


You are able to add/drop modules right through the first week of classes for each period.The last day to add/drop modules is Friday, March 14th.

*Note: You will need to change your ‘Session’ year if you would like add/drop modules for P4. To change your ‘Session’ year, please click on the right hand corner and change it to 2013 Winter.

If you have any questions, please email askmba@sauder.ubc.ca

Show Us Your Best Sauder Pitch!

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Sauder is about transformation and thinking about things differently. It’s about pushing boundaries and rewriting the rules of traditional business practices through innovation, creativity, and leadership.Call it a mantra, a motto, a muse – whatever it is, let Rewrite the Rules inspire the filmmaker in you.

You have 60 seconds or less, using a camera and your story, to capture how you’re carrying the Sauder way of thinking. Video submission deadline: Sunday May 4, 2014 at 11:59 p.m.  For those of you where capturing your #GIE2014 experience you may have some interesting experiences and content to draw on!

To participate, upload your work to a video-sharing website such as YouTube and send the link to events@sauder.ubc.ca. Make sure that your video is set as “public” so everyone can see it. Note that this is open to all Faculty, Staff and Students. Submission guidelines are available here.

The videos will be judged by a panel of experts at Alumni Weekend, May 24, 2014. The winner will receive a movie-themed prize pack and their video will be featured on the Sauder website.

Please see submission guidelines for more information. All inquiries can be directed to events@sauder.ubc.ca.

Leading High Performance Teams

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The Invitation:
An exciting professional development opportunity from Sysco Foodservices who would like to invite 3 or 4 UBC MBA students to join 15 senior HR managers from various Vancouver businesses in a two day leadership development program. Sysco will cover the $3,500 program fee.  You only need to pay $50 for lunch and dinner.  The theme for the two days is (1) Creating High Performance Teams, and (2) Leading Change.   It is a highly experiential, high energy two days. Guaranteed you will enjoy it and go home with many valuable learnings.

 The Competencies:

  1. Building Effective Teams
  • Builds and sustains high performance in permanent ongoing teams
  • Quickly gets new project teams to a high level of productivity
  • Creates effective teamwork between different groups and departments
  1. Leading Change: Dealing with Ambiguity
  • Effective in unfamiliar, challenging and changing situations
  • Quickly grasps underlying essence, structure, patterns and themes
  • Decides and acts without having complete information
  • Effectively manages organizational polarities and tensions

 Your Workshop Leader, Andrew Miller

Andrew Miller has 25 years of experience in leadership development.  His incredible depth and breadth of expertise makes him an extraordinary facilitator and coach.  For the last ten years, as Senior Director of Talent Management, Andrew has led the design of Sysco’s award winning leadership development programs.   He has undergraduate degrees in Business and Psychology, is a Ph.D. candidate, and a Harvard Business School alumni.    He is an experienced executive coach, graduating from both the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland and Fielding Graduate University’s coaching programs  He has worked with faculty from the best executive education programs including Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Columbia, Michigan, Chicago, Duke, Warden, and Darden.  He has taught leadership to students from seven of the top MBA programs in Canada.

Andrew’s work has been recognized for quality and innovation with awards from The International Coach Federation, HRPA, and the Chief Learning Officer magazine.  Andrew has been featured in numerous publications on executive development including articles in the Globe & Mail “Report on Business” and Canadian Business Magazine.

Date: March 13 – 14, 2014
Location: Sutton Place, Vancouver

Interested?  You must email Shannon Sterling (shannon.sterling@sauder.ubc.ca) by 9:00 am PST Friday, Feb 28. Confirmation of enrolment will be sent by end of day Friday.

Global Immersion and the Rewrite the Rules Campaign

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At the February 1 Global Immersion Experience training Murali spoke to how he hoped the class would engage with the Rewrite The Rules Campaign.  The following week, the Marketing and Communications team held an information session that provided more context. If you weren’t able to attend (or even if you did and need a reminder) please review the info below and keep this top of mind when in Denmark, China or India!

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In order to take your experience further, as well as support our marketing pieces that promote the UBC MBA and your GIE …Apply the Rewrite the Rules / Fresh Perspectives lens to your Global Immersion Experience and engage in real-time.

As you travel about your city and meet with businesses, work with people and generally travel about, think about the key campaign themes and how you can tell your experience through them: #innovation #creativity #leadership. Consider, how is Global Immersion changing your outlook on or understanding of these important aspects of business?

  • capture quotes, images, video; talk to people, look around  – immerse yourself and reflect and share
  • Take photos or video (Instagram, Twitter, Facebook all will do, just be sure to use the hashtags!)
    • how do locals view each of these concepts within a business environment?
    • what does each them look like in Copenhagen? Bangalore? Shanghai?
    • what are you or others around you doing that’s creative, innovative, or expressing leadership quality?
    • how is what you’re experiencing changing your perspective on business given any one of these themes, or the #rewritetherules attitude in general?

Use #GIE2014 and #rewritetherules and and let us know which city you’re in and what theme you’re exploring with the post – tweet to @UBCSauderSchool  or post to your MBA Facebook group.  Marketing and Communications  will be watching the feeds to aggregate the best into a roundup to be presented at the March Wrap Up and via a campaign story to be profiled on site.

If you’ll be tweeting, please email Kristina Baric (kristina.baric@sauder.ubc.ca) with your @handle so we can keep track of you that way as well.

Each of the staff leads will have “business cards” that you will be able to take with you to give to people you meet, use as a talking point.  We can’t wait to see your interpretation and understanding of rewriting the rules!

Happy Early Valentine’s/ End of Exam Week/ Leaving for GIE Day!

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We know this past week has been quite hectic for your class, therefore we are providing free hot chocolate and Baileys flavoured marshmallows on Thursday, Feb 13, 2014 from 11:00am-12:30pm in the Graduate Programs Office.

Good luck on your exams!
Happy Early Valentine’s Day!
Safe travels!

From the Student Experience Team

 

Alternate Study Space Across Campus

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During exam week there is a lot of demand for the Graduate Breakout Rooms. If there is no availability in the Graduate Breakout Rooms, as reminder the following study spaces are available for your use:

  1. Canaccord Learning Commons has a range of breakout rooms for use by all Sauder students. Please click here for more information/or to book a breakout room at the Canaccord Learning Commons.
  1. The Irving K Barber Learning Centre Group Study Rooms
  2. The Koerner Library Public Study Rooms
  3. The Woodward Library Public Study Rooms

To book a room at these locations, please click here. For other, more informal study spaces around campus, please click here.

Just a refresher about the Graduate Breakout Room Policy: https://blogs.ubc.ca/2015ftmba/2013/10/03/breakout-room-usage-policy-reminder/

Questions? Email askmba@sauder.ubc.ca.

 

Need money for a good cause – just ask for it

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Note: Please be advised that you do not need to attend the information sessions. We also understand that this is a busy time for your class, especially with exam week and GIE, however we wanted to promote this opportunity to you in case anyone was interested.

CI Grants promo 2014 

If you’ve got an idea for a project that meets a community organization’s needs, but need some money to get it off the ground, apply for a community grant (up to $10,000) to transform and idea into action. Info sessions and application deadlines in February. Learn more about Community Grants

Information sessions: February 13, 12pm – 1:30pm or February 19, 3pm – 4:30pm (RSVP here)