David Mindell Award in Entrepreneurship – Reminder

Reminder – the Deadline for application for this award is:
8:00am, Tuesday, May 6, 2014

An Award of $10,000 has been established in the name of David Mindell for a student entering or currently enrolled in the full-time MBA program at the Sauder School of Business.

Eligibility Criteria:

Criteria for the award includes entrepreneurial achievement or potential, demonstrated leadership, initiative and innovativeness and academic achievement. Due consideration will be given to the financial need of the student selected.

Consideration is not restricted to only those students in the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Track, but rather is open to all full-time MBA students with strong track record/potential in entrepreneurship and innovation.

Submit application to: askmba@sauder.ubc.ca
Application procedures: Announcement – David Mindell Scholarship 2014

MBAS Great Gatbsy Gala

MBA Society and the MM Society invites you and a guest to “The Great Gatsby Gala:

Celebrate the end of the school year and bid our classmates going on exchange a “farewell”.

Photobooth to capture the evening and dance floor with DJ Rusty McDouble

Date: Friday, May 2nd at 9:00pm
Location: Cecil Green Park House – 6251 Cecil Green Park Road, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1
Dress: your finest roaring 20’s attire
Tickets: $15.45

Available through the following link: https://mbasociety.ca/products-page/tickets/great-gatsby-gala/

Looking forward to celebrating our hard work at a beautiful venue overlooking the water!

C2MTL: May 27-29th, 2014

C2MTL is an immersive three day event that takes place in Montreal May 27th to 29th, 2014. It combines world-renowned speakers, interactive exhibits, collaborative workshops and a creativity Boot Camp, all of which takes place in a custom-designed Innovation Village.

This event which involve hundreds of international business leaders from Google, The Boeing Company, Deloitte, Ford Motors, GE, ING Direct, Microsoft, Apple, NFL, Walt Disney, Marriott and Walmart. These students could listen to Speakers such as Director James Cameron, Fashion Designer Christian Louboutin, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus and many many more!

If you are interested, you are invited to look at the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3p7DLrDRAU

Click here for more Information.

 

RSVP: Summer Experience & Summer Kick-off Celebration

The Graduate Programs Office would like to invite all the FT MBA students to come out to the Penthouse for cool drinks and to hangout for about an hour.  This is to celebrate the completion of the first academic year and to officially welcome the Summer Experience component of the program.

Please come up to the Penthouse with your classmates immediately after the P5 presentations and join staff and faculty to celebrate this important milestone.

Once summer starts, there won’t be any official meetings with the whole class until September.  And for those students going on exchange, we won’t be seeing you until graduation day in 2015.

We hope you can come out to the celebration. Please RSVP here.

Event: FT MBA Summer Internship & Summer Kick-off Celebration
Date: May 2nd, 2014
Time: 5:00 pm ~ 6:00 pm
Location: Penthouse (9th Floor)
Drinks and light refreshments will be served

Any questions, please email askmba@sauder.ubc.ca

David Mindell Award in Entrepreneurship

An Award of $10,000 has been established in the name of David Mindell for a student entering or currently enrolled in the full-time MBA program at the Sauder School of Business.

Eligibility Criteria:

Criteria for the award includes entrepreneurial achievement or potential, demonstrated leadership, initiative and innovativeness and academic achievement. Due consideration will be given to the financial need of the student selected.

Consideration is not restricted to only those students in the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Track, but rather is open to all full-time MBA students with strong track record/potential in entrepreneurship and innovation.

Deadline for application: 8:00am, Tuesday, May 6, 2014
Submit application to:
askmba@sauder.ubc.ca
Application procedures: Announcement – David Mindell Scholarship 2014

Period 5: Schedule and Course Materials

Period 5 (April 21 – May 2, 2014) is quickly approaching and the Graduate Programs Office would like to remind you of some important details for the upcoming period.

Update: No classes on Monday, April 21, 2014.

This period is intense, it covers 2 modules (BA 560 & BA 563) in 2 weeks and we expect the pace to be fast. Please prepare yourself by reviewing both the course outline and your schedule in advance.

-Note that there will be a briefing for Integrated Live Case Day on May 1st until 5:00 pm after the regular class.

Here are the links to the course outlines:
BA 560: Ethics and Sustainability
BA 563: Decision Making for Managers

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

MBA Lounge Carpet Cleaning

Please be advised that the quarterly carpet cleaning for the Henry Angus and David Lam facilities will be taking place during the evenings (starting at 4:30 pm) for the next two weeks from Friday April 4th until Saturday April 12th.

  • The cleaning of the MBA Lounge is scheduled for: Monday April 7th. Please try and ensure that all easily moved objects are removed from the carpeted surfaces.
  • The cleaning of the area outside of DL 125 is scheduled for: Saturday, April 12th.

Research Assistant for the UBC Community-Based Research Working Group

Message below sent on behalf of the Community-Based Research Working Group. Please forward to the students in your departments. 

Research Assistant for the UBC Community-Based Research (CBR) Working Group

The UBC Community-Based Research Working Group is seeking a research assistant (RA) to assist with organizing facilitated discussions, conduct background research on community-based research (CBR) issues and support the organization of CBR interest groups on campus. The RA will also work on developing a UBC CBR website.

The student should be a graduate student in the social sciences, familiar with community-based research as a methodology. A student who is organized and highly motivated is desirable. Strong communication and networking skills are also desirable.

The UBC CBR Working Group seeks to investigate ways to develop and foster meaningful community-university engagement and collaborations by supporting, enabling and enhancing CBR at UBC. The student will be working in a multidisciplinary environment that will provide an opportunity to learn valuable skills in community engagement techniques and policy development. The project team involves academics from across campus with linkages with community groups from both non-government and government sectors. The project offers the student a valuable opportunity to see academic/community partnerships in play and to appreciate the complexity and excitement of multidisciplinary research.

To apply, please submit a cover letter and CV to: WL S14 Research Assistant for the UBC Community-Based Research (CBR) Working Group (CareersOnline Job ID: 806599) by Wednesday, April 2