By: Srijani Datta, Assistant News Editor Zain Nayani, an alumnus of SFU’s Beedie School of Business, is the CEO of economic and business development for the Kanaka Bar Indian Band located near Lytton, northeast of Vancouver. He has been helping the approximately 200 members of the Kanaka Bar move towards self-sufficiency. Nayani described his experience so far and his vision for the Kanaka Bar’s move towards sustainability and self-sufficiency in an email interview with The Peak. “At an early age, I saw my mother devoting her time in institutions that developed human capital and intellect in different…
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The enjoyment of activities and new items decreases as time goes on — the twenty-fifth bite of a chocolate bar is often less enjoyable than the first. However, researchers wondered how knowing the price of a given product might affect…
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It is only half way through the year, but a company founded by SFU students has already claimed the top place in a number of entrepreneurship competitions — racking up more than $40,000 in prizes. Orello Hearing Technologies, a startup…
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A team of SFU undergraduate students earned first place at the Oxford Global Challenge, an international social innovation competition, earlier this month for their research on reducing medical waste. The trio — science students Iman Baharmand and Alec Yu, and…
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