March 31, 2009
2009 marks the 90th anniversary of the launch of Queen’s Commerce program – Canada’s first undergraduate business degree. The Queen’s School of Business (QSB) Faculty Hall of Fame is being created to recognize the professors who most influenced the thousands of students who have earned their business degree at Queen’s.
March 30, 2009
Four Queen’s School of Business Commerce students have made it to the finals of Canada’s Next Top Ad Exec, a nation-wide competition for university marketing and advertising students. The top ten teams include two from QSB: Commerce 2011 students Amy Fan and Nick Milinkovich and Commerce 2012 students Jacob Martin and Arielle Hancu.
March 13, 2009
Commerce student team Campus Connect took home top honours at the second annual Paul and Tom Kinnear Business Plan Competition held on February 26 at QSB.
March 12, 2009
For the second consecutive year, the Queen’s Commerce team won first place at the annual Mastercard Forepoint Case Competition. Hosted by the University of Alberta Marketing Association, the ForePoint Case Competition brings together 16 teams of business students from all four corners of Canada, allowing students the opportunity to perform extensive research on the appointed company, industry, and the featured product or service by distributing the case three weeks before the main competition event.
March 11, 2009
Queen’s School of Business (QSB) graduates celebrated the completion of the annual Chartered Accountants’ Uniform Evaluation (UFE) exam at the Westin Harbour Castle in Toronto on February 21. The UFE is a three-day, national examination administered by Canada’s Chartered Accountants that qualifies university graduates for their chartered accountant (CA) designation after completing their term of service with a public accounting firm.