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Extracted Content: On June 15, 2018, 20 employees who work full-time at TELUS will graduate with an MBA. But, there is a twist.

All 20 are graduating from the Peter B. Gustavson School of Business at the University of Victoria, and all 20 partook in the MBA program at the same time, together, as a single group.

How was this possible and what good came of such a model to the students, the university, and the company?

In the fall of 2013 TELUS—Canada’s fastest-growing national telecommunications company—had a simple idea.

Instead of funding or reimbursing employees who go off to complete an MBA at separate institutions at unique times, build an MBA program and curriculum from scratch—with a university partner willing to take on such an idea—based on the company’s values, purpose, and model of operating.

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