The Top Vancouver Companies for MBAs
With one of the most rapidly expanding economies in Canada, Vancouver has become a destination not only for tourism but also for transplants wishing to advance their careers. The total transition from a resourced based to a knowledge based economy makes it a vibrant center for various industries, including banking, tech, sustainable design and construction and international commerce. The city is also known as “Hollywood North” for those looking to make it into the business side of the entertainment industry.
Its beautiful landscape and temperate Pacific northwestern climate only add to the city’s appeal. In this article, we’ll take a dive into some of the top hiring companies in Vancouver for MBAs.
The Top Vancouver Companies for MBAs
Hootsuite
Hootsuite, the tool used by companies to harness their social media presence, is one of the top tech firms to call Vancouver home. With capabilities that benefit industries such as finance, healthcare, higher ed, and government, Hootsuite employs a diverse group of people across its international offices.
According to its site, the company is currently hiring a Vice President of Corporate Marketing, a Manager of Enterprise Marketing for the Americas, and a Senior Manager for Product Insights and Analytics.
Paysa reports that the average salary at Hootsuite is $126,444. This breaks down to $72,000 in the 25th percentile and $160,000 in the 75th percentile. The company has a high percentage of those with a combination of social media, marketing, and management expertise.
Lululemon
Athletic apparel company Lululemon Athletica, founded in Vancouver in 1998, also retains its headquarters there. Within its first two decades, the company made it onto Fortune‘s Fastest Growing Companies list, and this prediction held true.
For those with career goals incorporating social responsibility, Lululemon is a great fit. The company is part of the Sustainable Apparel Coalition, which ensures that members meet rigorous production and distribution standards for environmental, social and economic sustainability. Employing a ‘guerrilla marketing’ strategy in which customers feel part of a larger community as consumers of the product, Lululemon has become synonymous with the outdoorsy, athletic, and fit lifestyle that embodies Vancouver.
The company is currently hiring a Director of Marketing/CRM Analytics; a Business Analyst for Corporate Finance Systems, and a Vice President of Development, all of which may be of interest to MBAs hoping to settle in Vancouver. According to recent data, the 75th percentile of earners at Lululemon make $118,000, while the average is around $70,000.
TELUS
TELUS is Canada’s top telecommunications company, specializing in internet, voice and cable technology. Originally founded in Edmonton, Alberta, TELUS now provides telecom services to a large number of provinces in Canada. Analogous to Comcast or Verizon in the states, TELUS employs thousands in Vancouver, and appeals in particular to MBAs for its omnipresence as a corporate entity.
TELUS is currently hiring for Operations and Product Development Managers, Senior Strategy Managers, and Business Analysts. Salary reports state an average of $104,000, $74,000 in the 25th percentile, and just under $130,000 in the 75th percentile.
Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts is another dominant employer in Vancouver, and is obviously an ideal choice for MBAs with a foot in the gaming and tech world. Frostbite Labs, headquartered in Vancouver and in Stockholm, is a division of EA with a specialty in virtual reality tech. As a leader in the monetization of video games and apps, along with its exclusive partnership with Disney, Electronic Arts is an ever growing entity for an MBA in search of a great career move.
EA in Vancouver is currently in search of Communications Brand Managers, a Senior Quality Analyst, and a Development Director in Vancouver. Average salaries at EA rate at a highly competitive $132,000 on average, $93,000 in the 25th percentile, and $160,000 in the top 75 percent.
Let Introverts be Introverts, Says Stevens Guest Speaker – New York News
Let’s explore some of the most interesting stories that have emerged from New York business schools this week.
To Be Successful, Organizations Should Let Introverts Be Introverts, Says Stevens Speaker – Stevens Institute of Technology School of Business News
Introverts make up a third to a half of our workforce, and yet the majority of workplaces are built for extroverts—from open floor plans, bustling activity, to meetings dominated by who can be most assertive. These environments are not conducive to introverts, who are most productive when left alone to work and create.
Susan Cain, speaker at the Stevens Institute of Technology’s Excellence Through Diversity Lecture Series, shares how important it is to create that space for different work styles.
“There is no such thing as a one-size-fits-all environment. We need to be thinking day by day, team by team, office design by office design, how we can set things up so that there are varying levels of stimulation.”
Cain adds, “There have been a whole bunch of studies that have come out over the years showing that most people believe that introverts make inferior leaders and are passed over for leadership positions. On the other hand, there is another set of studies showing that introverts in leadership positions often deliver out-sized performance returns.”
You can read more about Cain’s lecture series event here.
Faster Internet Fuels Job Growth in Africa – Columbia Business School News
New research from Columbia Business School‘s Jonas Hjort and Uppsala’s Jonas Poulsen finds that the expansion of fast Internet in Africa has created jobs, increased employment rates, and greatly benefited populations with lower levels of education.
Professor Hjort writes, “These findings shed light on how modern information and communications technology can affect employment rates, structural change, job inequality, and firm growth in the poorest region of the world.”
“Our results imply that faster Internet allows firms to create (or retain) a lot of positions that otherwise would not be tenable in Africa,” adding that “access to information and communication can help give people with lower education a more secure foothold on the economic ladder, and improve living standards.”
You can read more about the growth here.
Impact Investing is About to Become More Mainstream Than Ever – Gabelli Connect
Last month, 350 guests gathered for Fordham’s inaugural Impact Investment Convening to discuss investing for social and environmental good.
Blended finance projects are already cited by the United States, Canada, Netherlands, and the Nordic countries as “proof that private capital could answer the problems that, historically, government couldn’t.” Investors are successfully driving interest in socially responsible investing and there is great potential to reach untapped markets.
The Convening was organized by Peter Lupoff, MBA ’86, Gabelli executive-in-residence and Center for Research in Contemporary Finance fellow. Lupoff explains, “What’s more is that the greatest transition in wealth is about to occur, from boomers to millennials. They care about how their money is spent, socially and environmentally, so it makes good sense for the traditional markets to embrace this – the capital will demand it.”
Keynote speaker Danielle Kayembe, CEO and founder of GreyFire Impact, points out, “The gender divide in consumer products and industry at large reflects a huge untapped area. Some estimates say women drive up to 85 percent of consumer spending in the United States, and, globally, women control some $36 trillion in total wealth.”
You can read more about impact investing here.
USC and Marshall School of Business Lead Way For IoT Systems
The USC Institute for Communication Technology Management (CTM), the USC Center for Cyber-Physical Systems and the Internet of Things (CCI), and the USC Integrated Media Systems Center (IMSC) recently announced a partnership that will design, develop, test, and implement an Internet-of-Things (IoT) system to benefit communities in the Los Angeles metro.
You may be wondering: what is an IoT? These networks are built from groups of independent people or organizations that voluntarily work together to create consolidated data streams from numerous IoT device owners into one common flow. Moving forward, IoTs will allow those connected to a network to share the data from their devices so it can be used for applications that manage energy use, transit, garbage collection, air quality, parking, or leak detection in pipes.
In a simpler form, IoT is short-hand for multiple devices beyond just computers and smartphones, that are interconnected.
The Intelligent Internet of Things Integrator consortium—or I3 for short—will engage governmental agencies and industry partners to encourage the development of community-based IoT networks. According to a press release, the system will provide greater transparency between the developers who use data for decision-making purposes and the users or organizations that own the devices connected to IoT networks.
Spearheaded by USC, the I3 consortium aims to improve decision-making and customer service at municipal levels. For example, I3 applications bay include guides for firefighters in burning buildings, or detailed insights to improve economic activity such as the foot traffic outside of a potential restaurant venue.
“We live in an age of data-driven innovation, and initiatives such as the I3 Consortium are essential to leveraging the data that surrounds us for a strong future,” said USC Marshall School of Business Dean James G. Ellis. “USC and Marshall will continue to lead the way in helping our students, faculty and community better understand the convergences between businesses, consumers and governments that will shape cities in this age of data.”
Ultimately, the system aims to turn consumers into entrepreneurs and I3 co-founders Bhaskar Krishnamachari, Jerry Power, and Cyrus Shahabi hope to distribute the technology as opensource software so other municipalities, states, and other government entities can benefit from USC’s system.
McDonough Professor Critiques BitCoin
Bitcoin, the internet’s first decentralized digital currency and the largest of its kind in terms of total market value, was recently examined at the McDonough School of Business. While Bitcoin is still shrouded in mystery for some, the new currency has made its way into business schools as certain prominent professors’ are beginning to open up on their thoughts on the currency.
