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Alumnus makes aquaculture a way of life

Most Maine Business School (MBS) students want to make some green after college, but few take it as literally as Todd Jagoutz ’01. Jagoutz’s Biddeford-based company, Sea Greens Farms, is on the forefront of aquaculture processing, research and development, and distribution. And like the seeded lines of his kelp farm off Maine’s southern coast, Jagoutz’s […]

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Business ventures across the pond: MBA students visit London and Ireland

The intricacies of international business, and Maine’s interactions with the UK and Ireland were the focus of University of Maine MBA students who traveled to London and Dublin last May as part of BUA 596. Nory Jones, UMaine professor of MIS, and Richard Borgman, professor of finance, led the BUA 596 trip that included 10 […]

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Business Black Bears study abroad

Damon Heads to Spain University of Maine junior Brianna Damon is spending spring semester 2019 studying at Universitat Politècnica de València (Polytechnic University of Valencia) in Valencia, Spain. Her courses there include international business and operations management. But because no trip abroad is complete without local flair, Damon is enrolled in elementary Spanish, windsurfing on […]

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Gilbert named dean of MBS Undergraduate School of Business

Faye Gilbert, dean of the College of Business and Economic Development and a professor of marketing at the University of Southern Mississippi, has been named dean of the Undergraduate School of Business in the Maine Business School, effective March 1. She joins J. Michael Weber, dean of the Graduate School of Business, who is based […]

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Students Explore, Promote Maine Business

What comes to mind when you think of Maine tourism? Maybe it’s the bustling streets of Portland or the vivid landscape of Acadia. If so, a group of UMaine students wants to change your mind. Undiscovered Maine is a Maine Business School student research project that aims to bring attention to areas of the state […]

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Business across the pond

How do recreation, tourism and leisure businesses in the United Kingdom measure up? That was the question 10 MBS juniors and seniors pondered last March when they traveled to England and Scotland as part of the class “Recreation, Tourism and Leisure in the UK.” Accompanied by Assistant Professor of Marketing Susan Myrden and Associate Professor […]

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Real world lessons

When she’s not teaching marketing at MBS, cooperating faculty member Cintia Miranda is running Pulse Marketing Agency, the company she founded in Bangor, Maine, in 2009. As a professional marketer, she is able to bring the real world into her classroom on a daily basis. “Since I live and breathe marketing in some shape or form, […]

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Financial Champions

SPIFFY, the Maine Business School’s student investment club, has won first-place in a rigorous, worldwide portfolio competition. The competition was part of the Quinnipiac Global Asset Management Education (GAME) VIII forum March 22–24 in New York City, in which 1,500 students from more than 160 colleges and universities around the globe had the opportunity to […]

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A SPIFFY Student Leader

Abigail Bennett ’18 is one of a handful of women who have co-led SPIFFY (Student Portfolio Investment Fund), the Maine Business School’s popular student-run investment club that manages nearly $3 million of the University of Maine Foundation’s $230 million endowment portfolio. Since SPIFFY was created in 1993, six women have served as co-president, most recently […]

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Ocean business advantage

MBS alumnus Brady Davis ’17 is using his business education to help advance the ocean economy. He is activity coordinator at New England Ocean Cluster (NEOC), a Portland, Maine-based business incubator and hub for companies that draw on the ocean as a resource for their products, services and ideas. NEOC aims to foster collaborative relationships […]

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