Undergraduates travel to Russia Students learned firsthand about doing business in Russia when they visited the country in the spring as part of an MBS international entrepreneurship class. Led by John Mahon, an MBS management professor; and Andrei Strukov, an MBS cooperating faculty member, director of the UMaine Faculty Development Center, and a native of […]
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Combining her MBS training with her love for baking, recent graduate Alison Keane has opened Logical Sip, a cafe and bakery featuring natural and healthy foods, in Brewer, Maine. Keane, who graduated with an MBA in May, says she always planned on opening her own business, but didn’t anticipate it happening this quickly. “I figured […]
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MBS associate professor of finance Pank Agrrawal has been inducted into the UMaine chapter of Phi Kappa Phi honor society. The nation’s oldest, largest and most selective honor society for all academic disciplines in higher education, Phi Kappa Phi was founded in 1897 at UMaine by 10 seniors to recognize outstanding students, faculty and staff. […]
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Last semester, students in Nory Jones’ management information systems classes used LinkedIn to connect with MBS alumni as part of a collaboration with the University of Maine Alumni Association and Career Center. The project aimed to provide students the opportunity to work with a proxy customer relationship management (CRM) system while networking with alumni. “My […]
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When MBS student Casey Nava ’17 isn’t in class, he is busy running Navadise Media, the innovative cinematography company he co-founded in 2014. “Our goal is to create unforgettable and distinctive videos and media content to help businesses enhance their web presence and generate sales,” says Nava, a marketing and management major from Waterboro, Maine, […]
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Student members of the MBS chapter of the American Marketing Association (AMA) spent the spring semester promoting Tip Whip LLC, the Orono startup founded by University of Maine alumnus Spencer Wood ’13, ’15 (MS). Tip Whip is a tips-only, ride-sharing service that aims to save lives by reducing drinking and driving. More than 700 UMaine […]
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Running a business and managing a sports team take the same leadership qualities, UMaine head baseball coach Steve Trimper told students in MBS lecturer Clint Relyea’s organizational behavior class last fall. “A successful CEO can coach a sports team, and a successful coach can run a business,” Trimper said in his presentation “Drive for Greatness: […]
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Ten MBS students participated in one of the world’s most comprehensive collegiate business competitions — a semester-long, two-part challenge that culminated in Anaheim, California in April. The annual International Collegiate Business Strategy Competition requires students to run a simulated manufacturing company. Participants name their company and choose a product to sell for around $10. Throughout […]
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Accounting professor Gloria Vollmers’ paper, “Cost Accounting for War: Contracting Procedures and Cost-Plus Pricing in WWI Industrial Mobilization in Italy,” will be published in an upcoming issue of European Accounting Review, and international scholarly journal of the European Accounting Association. The paper explores the role played by cost accounting in Italy’s Industrial Mobilization System and […]
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“Understanding Disengagement from Knowledge Sharing: Engagement Theory versus Adaptive Cost Theory,” an article co-authored by MBS Assistant Professor of Marketing Susan Myrden, has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Knowledge Management later this year. Myrden wrote the article with professors Tim Jones and Dianne Ford, both from Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. […]
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