Chief Ian Campbell of the Squamish First Nation was among the first graduates of Beedie’s Indigenous executive MBA. BEN NELMS/THE GLOBE AND MAIL

Ask Mark Selman at the Beedie School of Business how he would measure the success of its executive MBA in aboriginal business and leadership, and he would likely point first to Ian Campbell.

Mr. Campbell is a hereditary chief and cultural ambassador of the Squamish First Nation in British Columbia and has been involved in negotiating land-use deals worth billions of dollars. “[He] has emerged as a real leader on the business side, not just the cultural side,” says Dr. Selman, director of the EMBA.

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