Business and Economics
Two Minute Small Business Accelerator (SBA) Introduction
Get to know the new Small Business Accelerator website by watching this brief introductory video that explains what information can be found on the SBA, and how best to navigate the site. Business success depends on obtaining access to reliable information. The Small Business Accelerator is your gateway to freely available business information, education, and [...]
SBA Tutorial: Free resources to help answer 5 frequently asked business start-up questions
In this tutorial we demonstrate how to fully integrate the Small Business Accelerator (SBA) website into small business research, planning, and reference service. The 5 most common questions posed by small business owners — and future entrepreneurs — will be addressed by demonstrating a variety of online web resources featured on the SBA. Using the [...]
Paul Cubbon and George Moen – Smart Business: Smart Business, Small Business: An SBA Speaker
This is full recording of the Small Business Accelerator event, Smart Business, Small Business held October 17, 2011 at UBC Robson Square. The lecture features two compelling figures: Paul Cubbon, Marketing Instructor at the University of British Columbia’s Sauder School of Business; and George Moen, a University of British Columbia alumnus, serial entrepreneur and President [...]
Smart Business, Small Business: An SBA Speaker Session (Okanagan)
This is a full recording of the Small Business Accelerator event, Smart Business, Small Business which took place at the University of British Columbia’s (UBC) Okanagan Campus in Kelowna on Wednesday, October 19th, 2011. The lecture features three compelling speakers who gave short talks and answered audience questions: • Laurel Douglas, CEO Women’s Enterprise Centre. [...]
Liz Heron, Alfred Hermida, Karen Pinchin, Steve Pratt – How Social Media are Changing Journalism
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by UBC Continuing Studies’ Lifelong Learning Series in partnership with the UBC Graduate School of Journalism. Liz Heron, Social Media Editor at The New York Times, Alfred Hermida, Associate Professor, UBC Graduate School of Journalism, Karen Pinchin, founding editor of OpenFile Vancouver, and Steve [...]
Andrew Pask, Baldwin Wong, Daniel Hiebert and Hayne Wai – Citizenship without the Nation – Relevance: The Nation and the City
The Citizenship Without the Nation conference was a two day conference held at the Liu Institute for Global Issues from October 29 – 30, 2010. Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. The conference explored how regional and local dialogues intersect with the national discourse on citizenship. There is significant work on citizenship [...]
Price Fishback – Economic History
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the Department of Economics at UBC. Price Fishback is a Professor of Economics at the University of Arizona. Fishback is involved in a long-term study of the political economy of Roosevelt’s New Deal during the 1930s that examines both the determinants of New [...]
C.A.R.E. Global Local Exchange
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, the Community Partner for Learning (CPL), C.A.R.E. Society, the School of Community and Regional Planning, IKBLC and other UBC partners engages the diverse community with young global citizens (UBC recipients of C.A.R.E. Travel Awards). This event serves to welcome all the recipients back from their overseas [...]
Benjamin Cohen – Global Currency Competition & Exchange Rate Arrangements
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, and hosted by the Institute for European Studies (IES) at the University of British Columbia, the “Global Currency Competition & Exchange Rate Arrangements: Present & Future” international conference took place on June 11 and 12 at the C.K. Choi Building. Benjamin Cohen is Louis G. Lancaster [...]
Ramachandra Guha – Ten Reasons why India will not and must not become a Superpower
Presented by International Development Research Centre and co-hosted by UBC and the Canada-India Foundation, there has been much talk of a coming Asian century, to be dominated by the economic strength and political assertion of China and India. This talk will critically scrutinize the claims made on behalf of India, and in particular the belief, [...]
