Module 3: the last few inches before the finish line

Finally the module 3 is to end.
3 out of 4 courses have already ended and what is left is the big elephant's tail!..the exams! and not to forget the huge assignments!
Good luck to each and everyone in the Class of 2008!

Update: Uff

Thanks to the enormous pressure and the rigouous curriculum, I have not been able to update this blog from the past few months. Lets hope that I am able to put some time to this and keep this up-to-date!
Will try to put both old and new entries together!

Commerce students help kids 'Break into Business'

Queen’s School of Business is buzzing with young entrepreneurs this week. A new camp, founded by two enterprising BCom students, teaches the fundamentals of business to kids with an entrepreneurial spirit.

“Break into Business” is a daycamp designed by Monica Walker and Alyssa Richard, both recent BCom grads, for students in grades four to eight.

Ali tenHove, an 11-year-old camper from Winston Churchill Public School, says Break into Business is like an adventure camp and a business camp at the same time.

Over the course of each week-long session, campers develop a business idea, a budget and a marketing plan before launching their business. The final day serves as an opportunity to reflect on lessons learned and also a chance to communicate their successes to parents via PowerPoint presentation.

Ali’s team, the Sweet 7s, came up with the idea of running a pizza and snack stand to cater to construction workers currently working on the Queen’s campus. For $3 customers got a slice of pizza, a cookie and a pop. “The construction workers were happy to get it because they were hungry.”

Ali, who aspires to a career wind-testing big buildings like her grandpa, says that business camp showed her all the potential paths that she could take with her career.

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QSB Dean participates in launch of Principles for Responsible Management Education at 2007 UN Global Compact Leaders Summit

Queen’s School of Business Dean David Saunders was part of an international delegation to launch the Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) at the 2007 Global Compact Leaders Summit held today in Geneva. The Principles were launched as part of the United Nations’ call for business schools and academic associations to do their part to advance corporate social responsibility worldwide.

The Principles of Responsible Management Education were presented to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and hundreds of leaders representing business, civil society, government, and academia from around the world. They are the first global guiding framework for academic institutions to advance the broader cause of corporate social responsibility and a call for the incorporation of universal values in curricula and research.

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