An undergraduate student team — Ethan Howe, Jackson Graham, Aidan Michaud, Austin Loveless and Colby Dionne, with faculty adviser Sebastian Lobe, University Foundation Professor of Investment Education and associate professor of finance — made it to the top 5% at the prestigious 2022 CME Group University Trading Challenge, which took place Oct. 2–28. The CME […]
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Season seven of “The Maine Question” podcast covered a broad variety of subjects in research and higher education. Topics ranged from archaeology to space research, and from the challenges in K–12 education to toxic forever chemicals and efforts to mitigate them. In the tenth and final episode this season, host Ron Lisnet looks back on […]
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WABI-TV (Channel 5 in Bangor) reported that Maine Business School students hosted their first Sport Business Summit at the University of Maine. “I think there’s just so much information that [comes with] these speakers have come from across the world. I think they can really shed some light on some of the students to get […]
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From 1-6 p.m. on Dec. 7, the fall 2022 Facility and Event Management Class (MGT 490) class will host the Inaugural Maine Sport Business Summit in Corbett Business Building, Devino Auditorium, Room 100. The Maine Sport Business Summit is a first annual event in the Maine Business School featuring panels of sport business leaders from […]
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Nick Sinacola, a baseball pitcher from North Attleboro, Massachusetts, found at home at the University of Maine and the Maine Business School. The 2021 America East Pitcher of the Year had a banner season as a junior. In July 2021, Sinacola made history when the San Francisco Giants signed him in the 7th round pick […]
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Norm O’Reilly, dean of the University of Maine Business School, spoke to the Globe and Mail about the company Tim Hortons taking a step back into hockey-related marketing after the Hockey Canada scandal. “If it’s not perceived to be authentic, consumers are smart, and skeptical … and it can backfire,” he said. “ … Is […]
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The University of Toronto Press published a Q&A with Norm O’Reilly, dean of the Graduate School of Business at the University of Maine, about his new book “Business the NHL Way: Lessons from the Fastest Game on Ice.” O’Reilly co-wrote the book and the Q&A with Rick Burton, professor of Sport Management at Syracuse University.
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Norm O’Reilly, dean of the University of Maine Graduate School of Business School, co-wrote an opinion piece for The Globe and Mail with Rick Burton, professor of sport management at Syracuse University, about Hockey Canada rebuilding its image after scandal. “As professionals who have spent most of our lives working, analyzing and consulting for sports […]
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Like opening any business, starting a farm can be challenging without any entrepreneurial knowledge or skills. To help to fill a gap between contemporary business education and agriculture among some beginning farmers, University of Maine faculty members Erin Percival Carter and Stephanie Welcomer established the Business, Agriculture, and Rural Development (BARD) technical assistance training program […]
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Susan Myrden, associate professor of marketing at the Maine Business School, has been invited to the Let’s Talk About Service (LTAS) workshop at Hasselt University in Belgium in December. While this won’t be the first time she’s attended LTAS, her participation will include a different role: academic coach. Founded in 2012, LTAS was created for […]
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