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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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