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Business Administration, Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship
The graduate diploma in business administration (GDBA) provides core business skills to those with an undergraduate degree in a discipline other than business. Delivered online over three terms, the GDBA is a convenient and practical alternative to a traditional classroom-based program and provides business fundamentals to improve career prospects. The Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship cohort of the GDBA provides knowledge and experience to interested students from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds to create new social ventures and enhance the success of existing ones. The program builds upon the existing GDBA offerings in core business knowledge and supplements them with knowledge and experiential learning opportunities specific to social ventures. It will bring together faculty knowledgeable in social innovation and social entrepreneurship with community partners who will participate in class sessions as well as the field study.
間眅埶AV Requirements
The basic entry qualification is a degree from a recognized university in an area other than business, commerce or equivalent. Candidates must be computer literate and familiar with the Internet. The program requires a strong command of the English language. Applications are assessed as they are received.
Application
Students can apply online at 間眅埶AV's online Graduate Studies application for admission, found at www.sfu.ca/deangradstudies/future/application process
Candidates submit the following documentation:
- GDBA program application essay found at http://beedie.sfu.ca/gdba
- official transcript of undergraduate grades (mailed directly from the granting institution)
- resume
- two confidential letters of reference, preferably from supervisors or former professors
- applicants whose primary language is not English, or whose previous education was conducted in another language, must submit evidence of satisfactory completion of a standardized English test that is acceptable to the University(see graduate general regulation 1.3.12)
- interview (if required)
Program Requirements
Students complete the following six courses:
Concepts and principles in financial accounting from the user perspective and the use of accounting information for managerial decisions.
An overview of investment and financing decisions of the firm, including valuation, capital expenditures, financial markets, dividend and financial policy. Prerequisite: BUS 550 and 553 or equivalent.
An introduction to the application of pricing, promotion, channel selection and product planning to marketing decisions.
Social entrepreneurs are innovative, resourceful and use market-based approaches to find new solutions to social, economic and environmental challenges. Application of Social Entrepreneurial concepts in a practical manner to issues you care about. Focus on real world problems and the elements that leaders need to consider when building impactful and economically viable ventures.
Explores a method of problem solving based on design that can be effective in dealing with challenging social problems. Includes deep user understanding and analysis of the social, economic and technological issues surrounding the problem, by learning and applying tools that push us to think differently about users' needs. surrounding the problem, by learning and applying tools that push us to think differently about users' needs.
Students will work on field projects developing an innovative, market based approach to a social problem, either in collaboration with a community partner organization or working on an entrepreneurial initiative of their own. In addition to the instructor each team will have exposure to experts, investors and entrepreneurswhowill provide feedback and guidance.
Courses from the other master of business administration programs or other programs may be used as substitutes for these courses at the discretion of the academic chair.
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