School of Business

Explore the dynamics of business, sustainability and biblical stewardship

a mbroSe school of business Bachelor of Business Administration Bachelor of Arts in Business An Overview

BUSINESS: PREPARING INNOVATIVE AND SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE LEADERS Do you have entrepreneurial passions?

Do you want to lead a company and foster its social responsibility?

Do you want to understand and practice business skills for success?

Do you see yourself running a non-profit organization?

Today a successful career in business requires a deep understanding of issues related to sustainability and social responsibility. As a Christian university, Ambrose has treated these issues seriously for years. You can be sure as an Ambrose business student that you will learn the importance of creating real value, cultivating innovation and social initiatives, developing community, and pursuing good stewardship in your relationships, resources and the environment.

Class sizes are small, so your faculty are able to provide individual attention as you prepare to influence the many marketplaces of your life.

So why study business at Ambrose?

Professional Business Faculty: Your professors are knowledgeable and high-level contributors to organizations in their core areas of business. Many are active business leaders. They bring up-to-date information and examples from their experience to the classroom.

Sustainability: Ambrose prepares leaders who incorporate sustainability in their business practices. So, along with growing in the critical-thinking and problem-solving skills essential to this work, you will learn what it means to be a godly steward of your resources.

Faith Integration: Ambrose fosters business people who are ethical and authentic individuals, ready to serve in the marketplace in a manner consistent with their faith. You will learn to understand and integrate the core areas of business with a Christian perspective.

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Ambrose business students are fantastic. Their ability to think critically and ethically, analyze, and apply business concepts are all strengths they have gained while in the program. They are very well prepared for successful and rewarding careers, and I look forward to seeing all of their accomplishments post-graduation!”

Karl Schwonik (PhD Candidate), Sessional Faculty in Strategy

Innovative and Entrepreneurial Thinking Everyone in business is interested in creative ideas and approaches, whether the goal is new ventures or disruptive change in existing companies.

That is why a foundational course in the Ambrose business programs is Innovative and Entrepreneurial Thinking. Here you will develop an entrepreneurial mindset through design thinking, creativity exercises, and problem-solving strategies. Highly practical in nature, this course will help you learn habits of thought that promote initiative, responsibility, and empowering passion.

An Ambrose

distinctive A minor in Nonprofit Management is also a distinctive feature of the Ambrose business programs.

PROGRAMS Bachelor of Business Administration (4 years) Professional skills and knowledge are the hallmark of the Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) degree. As a student in this program, you will gain a strong theoretical foundation while you accumulate skills and experiences in a wide range of business-related disciplines. Your courses will include a focus on developing an ethical approach to business that reflects a Christian worldview. Business fuels local, national and global development, and you can be one of the people helping to drive it forward.

As a student in the BBA program, you can specialize in one or more core business areas: Accounting Business Intelligence and Analytics Human Resource and Organization Development Marketing Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration (3 years) This concentration prepares leaders for careers in management, as well as redemptive engagement with society. As a student in this program, you will emerge with an integrated approach to business, enhanced by a broad base of knowledge from your liberal arts courses. One of the most critical skills you will acquire is familiarity with information technology and its uses in business. Graduates of this program are effective communicators, team players, and informed and thoughtful individuals.

Sample courses: Business Ethics and Sustainability; Leadership in the Global Context; Organizational Behaviour; Data Analysis for Business; Innovative and Entrepreneurial Thinking; Marketing Communications and Societal Marketing

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Learning business within the liberal arts context pulls students out of the mundane, purely technical activity often ascribed to business, to develop a broader understanding of their holistic purpose.”

Dr. Murray MacTavish, Associate Dean, School of Business

THE COMPANY OUR ALUMNI KEEP Alberta Health Services Apple Amazon Logistics Air Canada Suncor Hyundai CPA Alberta CIBC RBC BMO Nesbitt Burns Benevity Kudos Inc SMART Technologies Tiller Digital Little Biz Marketing & Design Calgary Economic Development MNP Accounting, Business Consulting & Tax Services

Ascend LLP Chartered Professional Accountants JMH & Co. Chartered Professional Accountants PPI Management Inc. Novus Global Stack’d Consulting ILF Consulting Engineers Allardyce Bower Consulting Epic Roofing & Exteriors DECO Windshield Repair, Inc. Phantom Screens City of Kelowna Samaritan’s Purse Canada Young Life Canada Saskatchewan Roughrider Football Lennox Commercial

FACULTY Murray MacTavish, PhD Associate Dean, School of Business; Associate Professor, Leadership and International Development

Cindy Karikari, MBA, PhD Candidate

Sessional Faculty in Business; Founder and Owner— Educated Path (consulting firm)

David Adams, MBA, CPA Sessional Faculty in Accounting; Accounting Educator and Consultant

Jason Orr, MBA, CPA Sessional Faculty in Innovation and Entrepreneurial Thinking; Senior Vice President— Donald Capital, LLC

Barbara Coutts, MSc Sessional Faculty in Data Analytics; Consultant—Innovation Lab at Ryan

Mark Szabo, PhD JD Sessional Faculty in Marketing and Business Law; Vice President, Client Partner, Research—Critical Mass

Albert Elliott, MBA, CPHR Sessional Faculty in Business; Former Vice President, Human Resources, Communications and Administration—Total SA

Tim Vanderpyl, DSL, CPHR Sessional Faculty in Human Resources; Manager, Employee and Labour Relations— FortisAlberta

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Ambrose focuses on how business is not simply a job we do—it is a means by which we can be salt and light to the world around us and glorify God.”

Raylene, Bachelor of Business Administration alumna

KEY STRENGTHS OF AMBROSE BUSINESS ALUMNI Seniors in the Ambrose BBA program rate their growth in critical analysis, value-formation and citizenship higher than their counterparts in other universities across both Alberta and Canada.* *2020 National Survey of Student Satisfaction (NSSE)

Thinking critically and analytically Developing or clarifying a personal code of values

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Being an informed and active citizen

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WHAT DO YOU NEED TO APPLY? Five Grade 12-level courses with a minimum overall average of 60%: English (30-1 for Alberta) Math (30-1 or 30-2 for Alberta) with 60% or higher Two additional academic courses One additional course

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Visit ambrose.edu for full admission and program requirements

At Ambrose I had a lot of entrepreneurial professors who helped me come into my own as an entrepreneur while I was in school. I just realized, that’s what I’m made to do: build a business and be an entrepreneur. I am truly grateful for the experience of learning from these professors in the context of small classes.”

Chantelle, Bachelor of Business Administration alumna, and business owner

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