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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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Professional Development

  MBS students got valuable career advice last fall when the business school held information and networking sessions with Maine professionals in the accounting and finance fields. Each event featured a panel of professionals — including MBS alumni — from both the private and public sectors who described their firms, offered advice about job searches, […]

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Protecting Privacy

MBS alumna Shelbe Lane Moore ’13 is using her business degree to play an important role in the healthcare industry.   She is a privacy compliance coordinator at Dartmouth-Hitchcock in Lebanon, New Hampshire, where she works to maintain the privacy and security of patient health information by ensuring that practitioners and staff comply with local, […]

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Author, alumnus heals himself

Dan Sullivan had a lot on his plate. In addition to pursuing a degree in management and serving as goaltender for the University of Maine ice hockey team, he struggled with Attention Deficit Disorder. Now the 2013 MBS alumnus has published a book about his ADD diagnosis, his experience with prescription medications including Adderall, and […]

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