Category Archives: Extracurricular Event

Sauder Ethics Initiative

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Are you a leader in business ethics?

The Sauder Ethics Initiative is looking for current MBA students that want to have an impact on the role of business ethics at Sauder. There is strong support from the school’s leadership for an increased emphasis on ethics in the MBA program, and we are looking for students to help us move towards that goal.

Last year’s class organized “Ethics In Action” events and sent a team to Texas for a case competition in ethical leadership. These opportunities and more are open to the class of 2015. We have a budget available to support ethics-focused initiatives; all we need is for one or more students to step up and take the lead.

If you are interested in getting involved, contact Chris de Eyre at cdeeyre@gmail.com

Screening of Story of India (optional)

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Centre for India and South Asia Research

Screening of Story of India: A documentary by Micheal Woods (BBC)
Friday, March 14th , 2014
2:00 pm-3:30 pm
Boardroom #231, C.K. Choi Building, 1855 West Mall

India’s history is a ten thousand year epic but for over two millennia, India has been at the center of world history. It has seen successive invasions from Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan to Tamburlaine and the British, all of whom left their mark but all of whom succumbed, in the end, to India herself. For all that time India has been famous for its spiritual traditions; it gave birth to two world religions, one of which-Buddhism-had a profound impact on all of East Asia, China, Japan and Korea, and in modern times has found root even in the US and Europe. The subcontinent is home to one of the world’s greatest-and least understood-artistic traditions and to an extraordinary spectrum of music, dance and literature. India was also, and still is, a great center for technology and science, inventing-for example-the decimal system with zero, which is the basis of all modern science, mathematics and economics. India gave birth to some of the most remarkable characters in world history, including the Buddha, the Mauryan emperor Ashoka, and the Moghul emperor Akbar the Great, not to mention the likes of Nehru and Mahatma Gandhi.

Institute of Asian Research, 1855 West Mall, C.K. Choi Building, Vancouver, B.C., V6T1Z2
Tel: (604) 822-4688 Fax: (604) 822-5207 E-mail: iar@mail.ubc.ca

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

 

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.

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

 

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)

 

2014 P3 Student Summit

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If you are interested in learning more about the contributions public-private partnerships (P3s) have made to western Canada’s infrastructure and economy, meet students from different disciplines related to P3, hear about the latest developments and network with industry professionals, then you should apply now. Limited spots are still available.

The Canadian Council for Public-Private Partnerships (CCPPP) is inviting university and college students located in western Canada to apply to attend the Western Canada Student Summit on P3 to be held in Vancouver on March 6-7, 2014.

This leading edge event will take place at the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia. This is a limited enrolment event which will accept a maximum of 50 students. Students will be selected from upper year undergraduate and graduate programs from western Canadian universities and colleges. P3 related disciplines which will be considered include finance, engineering, business, law, public administration, economics, political science, planning and construction management.

To ensure a broad range of representation of students from all relevant disciplines and western Canadian academic institutions, applicants will be evaluated based on the quality and thoroughness of their application. An academic reference will be required. Subsidies will be made available to qualified candidates attending from outside of the Vancouver area.

Please fill out the application form and submit to Christian Bauer at cbauer@pppcouncil.ca.

Reminder: CSM Speakers Event Tomorrow

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The Consulting and Strategic Management MBA club would like to invite you to a speaker session featuring Boris Lepinskikh, the founder and CEO of eCommerce company e96.ru. Established in 2006 as a small regional on-line retailer of consumer electronics and home appliances, the company has grown to become one of the largest eCommerce companies in Russia. The company generated more than $150 million in sales in 2013 and has over 600 employees. Boris will be sharing his experiences and answering questions at 12:30 pm on February 4th in HA 132. In order for us to arrange for refreshments, please RSVP by February 3 to Kirill.

Sauder’s Rewrite the Rules Campaign and GIE

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A reminder that we will be hosting a casual learning session on Wednesday, February 5 12:30 – 1:30 in the MBA Lounge with Sauder’s Marketing and Communication team. This will be your opportunity to learn about the Rewrite the Rules campaign, its strategy, channels and the more details into the way we hope you will engage with it during your Global Immersion Experience.

Please RSVP by emailing Shannon Sterling (shannon.sterling@sauder.ubc.ca) to confirm numbers by 9 am Wednesday.  Lunch will be provided for students in attendance.

Dean’s Office Funding Website Now Available

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We are excited to launch the new online form and resource tool for UBC Sauder MBA students to access Dean’s Office Funding. Please explore the website and consider the Personal and Professional Development Opportunities you may want to explore during your MBA journey. Some new content and resources are still to come, but for now, you can review everything here.

If you have any questions about the fund, please connect with Shannon Sterling, Manager, Student Development at shannon.sterling@ubc.ca