New MBA Module: Business in Society: Indigenous Leadership & the Culture of...
Tomorrow is the launch of an inaugural four-day Business in Society Module in the Full-time MBA Program at Sauder. The topic is “Indigneous Leadership and the Culture of Engagement”. James Tansey...
View ArticleBusiness in Society: rapping and story-telling
Mitigate. Compensate. Negotiate. Rob Kasp Sawan was the inspiration for one of the MBA teams to complete their report on their aboriginal leader interview with a rap folding in the concepts of...
View ArticleLeading Cities Summit: Day 1 Dublin
The World Class Cities Partnership is re-branding. Hurrah! We are now “Leading Cities” — and now we need a tag-line. But more importantly, we just met in Dublin for 3 days. There were...
View ArticleLeading Cities: Day 2 Dublin: Science Gallery, Digital Hub, Guinness
Forgot to mention in the last post that on Day 1 we met Ireland’s Prime Minister Enda Kenny at the “Dail” — their parliament. We also stuck our noses into their version of House of Commons &...
View ArticleDublin House. Pivot Dublin. CreativeD.
We spent our final Leadings Cities day in Dublin at Dublin City Hall — finding out about all their initiatives which focus on two pillars: smart, digital, green leisure, tourism, culture We are very...
View ArticleResilience: Investing in Youth, Disruptive Learning Environments
Last week was “resilience” week in my life. Tuesday night we were at Robson Square for “Community-based Resilience: Front-Line Storiesfrom US & Canada. We were fortunate to have Mary Rowe...
View ArticleDublin City Beta Projects
DUBLIN CITY BETA PROJECTS http://dubcitybeta.wordpress.com/ Beta Projects. Trials. Demos. Pilots. Seems like the way to go these days to minimize risk and maximize potential to test ideas, to...
View Articled.studio reflections on the Fall 2013 lululemon studio
The d.studio hummed last term with two major projects for the B. Comm students — one section tackled a business model project for the Pacific Newspaper Group. The other section engaged with a series of...
View ArticleLeading Business by Design: Why and how business leaders invest in design
Design is everything, because without it we have no business. … there is intense competition, and anybody can design a decent product. They can’t all design outstanding products. So, design is the...
View ArticleMillennials + Cars?
Millennials don’t care about owning cars and car makers can’t figure out why…there’s a headline that caught my eye....
View Articled.studio moves to new Sauder Learning Labs
Just an update (finally) on the move of the d.studio from Henry Angus 338 to the new Sauder Learning Labs. First an update on COMM 388 and its “expansion”. This term we have two studios happening....
View ArticleThe Studio Summit: Copenhagen Business School
Angele and I attended the first Studio Summit at the Copenhagen Business School at the end of August. The Summit gathered together around 25 participants who teach in some form of studio in business...
View Articled.studio students work with iHUB new ventures
This term, one of the d.studio sections has been working with social enterprises who are part of the Coast Capital Saving iHUB. Each team of 5-6 students are working with a different “design/business...
View ArticleExpo Innovation Challenge: Milan Oct 9-11, 2015
There are no shortage of opportunities to engage in challenges these days — one in particular has come onto my radar screen because I am going to attend, give a workshop and float around the challenge...
View ArticleUBC Design Challenge: the art and science of solution making
Society needs new ways to find solutions to complex, wicked, systemic problems. Similarly, universities need new ways to engage students and faculty in co-creating useful solutions with external...
View ArticleLaunch of UBC Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs
Back to school! And at UBC, we are launching our new Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs. The world is in the midst of major and rapid transformation: dramatic technological change, instability...
View ArticleBook Review Business Model Generation
By Zhenyu (Sherry) Xue – 2016 Mitacs Globalink intern at UBC d.studio On my first day as a research assistant at UBC d.studio, I was given this book to start my internship. I’m an undergraduate from...
View ArticleBook Review The Service Innovation Handbook
By Zhenyu (Sherry) Xue – 2016 Mitacs Globalink intern at UBC d.studio After reading Business Model Generation, I got my second reading assignment—The Service Innovation Handbook. Equipped with basic...
View ArticleLeading Business by Design: Why and how business leaders invest in design
Design is everything, because without it we have no business. … there is intense competition, and anybody can design a decent product. They can’t all design outstanding products. So, design is the...
View ArticleMillennials + Cars?
Millennials don’t care about owning cars and car makers can’t figure out why…there’s a headline that caught my eye....
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