Business Research videos :  These videos were created by Mr. Stephen Fadel, our University of Maine business librarian.  They present a wealth of knowledge on how to do business research.

• Industry research
• Company Research 1
• Company Research: Basic Resources and SWOT Reports
• Company Research: Common Problems
• Company Research: Article Searching
• Demographic marketing research
• Marketing Research2: two resources for demographics by location
• How to locate a company’s annual 10-K filing

MBS Homecoming 2012 Videos:

• MBS Blues Brothers: Soul Man
• AMA Shake your groove thing
• MBS Dancing in the Streets
• MBS Celebration
• MBS Corps & UMaine Women’s Basketball team: Call Me Maybe

Presentation workshop: This workshop provides great tips of how to make professional presentations.

Finance Professor Bob Strong discusses what people of all ages should know about investing in the stock market.
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Bob Strong, Professor of Finance, University of Maine: “For a long, long time, investment advisors have pointed out that you can always come up with a pretty good list of reasons why now is not a good time to invest. We’ve always been able to do that. You can always add to your list complications about the economy, politics, sentiment–but the stock market is intended to be a method for aquiring wealth over an extended period of time. Yes, there are people who make money quickly by having a lucky roll of the dice, but the market is not intended to be a gambling facility. This is a place to put your money for the long haul. An investment program that’s well-conceived that goes for a lifetime of work almost always results in somebody being in much better condition than they were as opposed to just doing something haphazard. So yes, there’s a lot of stuff that’s screwed up in the world right now, but it’s always been that way. It’s always been that way. The same exact thing is true when we’re flying high. You look at the dot com situation–the Internet bubble of a decade ago–and I’ve heard it said that the four most dangerous words in finance are, ‘things are different now.’ And people did think things were different back in the dot com days, but over the long run, well-conceived, logically thought out, not emotionally charged investment picks because you’re missing out on the chance of a lifetime–that’s what’s most important. The fundamentals aren’t any different today than they were before, but you have to understand the fundamentals, you have to know something about risk, you have to know what’s reasonable, you have to remember that in investing, the important thing is to get on base–swinging for the fence and a home run is great, but a good batting average is much more important in the long haul.”

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