Education
BCBusiness + University Canada West Having a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree is not a prerequisite to becoming a successful entrepreneur. However, it will give you an edge over your contemporaries as you gain the knowledge and skills to make critical...
Life Story: Before travelling to Costa Rica last summer, Clinton Large made a six-page spreadsheet to plan out the trip. “I don’t think I’ve always been entrepreneurial, but I think I’ve always been good at organizing and logistics,” he says. Providing...
Life Story: Franco Ng guesses that he might’ve been a teacher in a past life—but he hates marking things, so in this life it simply wasn’t an option. “My core of who I am has always been about youth leadership,” he...
Life Story: When Sabrina Rai says “education is really important to me,” it’s easy to believe her. After graduating from UBC Sauder, Rai, who grew up in Prince George and Abbotsford, went on to a master’s in accounting at the...
Life Story: Marzia Sager grew up in the Phillipines but moved to Vancouver when she was nine. At first, she thought she’d follow in the footsteps of her mom or grandma, a pharmacist and doctor, respectively. At least up until...
First of all, it's grown. We have almost twice as many faculty and staff as we had when I joined. But we've also sharpened the positioning and approach of the school quite significantly, really leaning in on issues around organizational...
BCBusiness + Douglas College The veterinary medicine field in British Columbia is facing a shortage of qualified Registered Veterinary Technicians (RVTs), resulting in burnout among those within the profession and a lack of accessible health care for our four-legged family members. Moreover...
BCBusiness + Global University Systems Canada Cyndi McLeod has held senior leadership roles at public and private institutions in the Canadian post-secondary education system, including Selkirk College, Thompson Rivers University and Royal Roads University. In 2017, she joined Global University Systems (GUS)—an international...
BCBusiness + Jelly Academy The Ministry of Jobs, Economic Development and Innovation of British Columbia says employers in B.C. are feeling the global labour shortage. About 80% of the million job openings over the next decade will require post-secondary education and new...
It’s 5 p.m. on a Friday in January, but Kookai Chaimahawong isn’t clocking out from her workweek yet. This evening, she’s building an innovation and entrepreneurship course at her alma mater, the UBC Sauder School of Business. Chaimahawong works long hours...