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Eight New Faculty Join MBS

In addition to a class of incoming students, there are plenty of other new faces roaming the halls of DP Corbett. Eight new faculty members have joined the MBS team – six based in Orono and two based in Portland. JOHN N. ANGELIS Visiting Assistant Professor of Operations Management Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University, 2009 […]

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UMaine MBA Program named #28 in CEO Magazine’s 2019 Global Online MBA rankings

The University of Maine’s MBA Program has been named #28 in CEO Magazine’s 2019 Global MBA rankings. “This global ranking further recognizes our online MBA as being among the best graduate business programs in the world,” says Michael Weber, dean of the UMaine Graduate School of Business. This is the Maine Business School’s first appearance […]

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MBS professor secures MTI grant for innovative product

The unsettling realization that people can exit a bathroom or public restroom with more germs than when they entered was the inspiration for a new product that was recently awarded a grant from the Maine Technology Institute (MTI). Mathew Graham, assistant professor of management information systems in the Maine Business School at the University of […]

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Alumna Knows Networking Works

The adage, “it’s not what you know, it’s who you know,” is jokingly tossed around business circles, but bank vice president, brewery board member and Maine Business School alumna Kelly Dorsey ’08 believes the maxim has merit. The Brunswick, Maine native grew up knowing she wanted to study business. “I wanted to make sure I […]

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Students research, implement management information systems for Maine businesses

MBA students in BUA 605 led by professor Nory Jones are helping connect Maine businesses to their customers. The class, Creating and Capturing Value in the Digital Economy, is designed to help graduate students understand the role and importance of effective management information systems (MIS). “This course represents an integration of concepts and principles in […]

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Trading in GAAP for LARP: MBS accounting faculty pens second novel

David Barrett, lecturer of accounting at the Maine Business School, has released his second fantasy novel, More Fun and Games. The tale, which follows the adventures of a group of friends who have been transported into their live-action role playing game, is the continuation of the young adult series’ first installment, It’s All Fun and […]

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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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