Looking to engage in a dynamic startup environment that fosters entrepreneurial learning?

The AECOM Ventures A-Lab is looking for Business Master’s students to serve as consultants to their teams to evaluate ideas, create strategic action plans, and conduct required market and business analyses. While gaining experience working with an integrated global infrastructure firm, this opportunity for students is a significant part of the AECOM Global Challenge, an open call to all AECOM employees to propose innovative solutions for complex challenges facing the company. The 25 semi-finalists of the challenge would be assigned a team of business students to tackle issues such as:

• improved air quality
• environmental remediation
• complex site management
• technology in support of connected and autonomous vehicles
• innovations that drive efficiencies in the semiconductor industry.

You can find more details about the program schedule here. If you are selected, you would be assigned a team with other graduate business students.

If you are interested in applying, please send your resume and answers to the application questions to askmban@sauder.ubc.ca by December 15, 2017.

Hello everyone,

We are aware that the Breakout Rooms do not have very much availability this coming weekend on November 18th and 19th due to bookings for BASM 580B. As an alternative, we have booked the following rooms this weekend that MBAN and MM students may use as group study space in Henry Angus.

• Saturday, November 18: HA 232, 332, 432 from 8am-8pm
• Sunday, November 19: HA 232, 292, 293, 332, 339, 432, 437 from 8am-12:30pm. (Breakout Rooms are available after 1pm).

Additionally, below is a notification from the UBC Sauder Facilities Operations Management Office.

Please be aware that there will be scheduled maintenance work being performed on the Henry Angus Building as follows:

• Saturday, November 18^th, 7 am until 10 am: Work will be done on the south (University Boulevard) side of the office tower. Some noise will be involved with this work.
• Sunday, November 19^th, 8 am until 4 pm: Work will be done to the Henry Angus sanitary system. This work will require all washrooms in the Henry Angus building to be closed down. All washrooms in the David Lam building will remain open. Below is a list of nearby washrooms that can be used during the maintenance time.
• Ground floor David Lam washrooms – 7 am until 11 pm
• 2^nd and 3^rd floor CLC washrooms – 12 pm until 5 pm
• Triple O’s washrooms – 9 am until 10 pm

Have a great weekend!

Clement

This is a reminder that Darren Dahl, Director of the Robert H. Lee Graduate School, will be hosting a Town Hall for the MM, MM DD and MBAN students. You will have an opportunity to learn about the School’s strategic vision and initiatives.

Location: HA337
Date: Friday, November 24, 2017
Time: 12:00-1:00pm

Light snacks and refreshments will be provided. 

Please RSVP here by Friday, November 17, 2017 at 12:00pm.

A representative from Vancouver Coastal Health Communicable Disease Control has advised that there have been three confirmed cases of mumps at UBC Sauder reported to their office. The cases are all students in the BCom program at UBC Sauder.

Although RHL Graduate students will not have had courses with BComs, there are still common areas of the building where contact may occur.  We strongly encourage all students to review the letter and fact sheet which provide more information about mumps exposure, symptoms, and vaccination.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact our office or the number listed in the letter.

Dear MBAN students,

Over the past five years, the UBC Sauder School has enjoyed gratifying success: growth in innovative programs, a stellar global reputation, recognition for world-leading research, continued esteem among the best students, and a place alongside the very best of our peers.

It is from this enviable position of strength that we set ourselves to the task of developing a refreshed strategic plan to help guide priorities and decision-making over the next five years.  Our goal was to craft a strategic plan that would hold true to the defining characteristics that have long been core to the school’s mission and culture, but that would also advance the school’s impact in emerging areas of societal importance.

What more might be possible if we choose to focus our efforts on how business excellence can serve the public interest?  What role should an internationally renowned business school play in the face of monumental and complex challenges facing society?  How do we equip leaders with the values, courage and wisdom to identify problems, work collaboratively, and seek innovative solutions?  These questions have been a source of much discussion and debate among faculty, students, staff, alumni, and corporate and community partners over the past year.  The new UBC Sauder Strategic Plan 2017-2022 is our collective response.

I am very grateful for the time and engagement that so many members of the Sauder community provided to this process.  The next phase of our work involves the development of actions that will implement the mission, vision and principles of the plan and be the subject of ongoing measurement, review and reporting to you and others in our community.

Thank you, and best regards,

Bob

Robert Helsley
Dean, UBC Sauder School of Business
Grosvenor Professor of Cities, Business Economics and Public Policy

Darren Dahl, Director of the Robert H. Lee Graduate School, will be hosting a Town Hall for the MM, MM DD and MBAN students. You will have an opportunity to learn about the School’s strategic vision and initiatives.

Location: HA337
Date: Friday, November 24, 2017
Time: 12:00-1:00pm

Light snacks and refreshments will be provided. 

Please RSVP here by Wednesday, November 15, 2017.

Hello Everyone,

We hope you all had a great week! This is a reminder that the UBC campus will be closed this coming Monday, November 13th for the Remembrance Day Long Weekend. This is a memorial day to honour the members of our armed forces who have died in the line of duty. Please click here if you would like to learn more about how UBC is commemorating this day.

As classes will be cancelled this coming Monday, please note that your make-up classes for BAMS 508 and BAIT 508 will be held on Friday, November 17th from 8am to 10am and 10am to 12pm, respectively.

Have a great weekend!

Clement