The Maine Business School has appointed Patti Miles and Meghan Gardner associate dean and assistant dean of business, respectively. Miles, professor of management, has been interim associate dean of business since July 2022. She joined the MBS faculty in fall 2008 after completing her Ph.D. at the University of Texas, Arlington. Gardner joined the Maine […]
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The Bangor Daily News shared that Jason Entsminger, assistant professor of entrepreneurship and innovation with the Maine Business School and small business specialist at University of Maine Cooperative Extension, co-authored fact sheets that present data for the total number of farms engaging in agritourism, direct sales or both for every state and the nation for […]
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In-depth statistical and demographic information about Maine farms and others across the nation that offer agritourism-related activities, direct-to-consumer sales or both are available in a new set of fact sheets co-authored by a University of Maine researcher. Led by Claudia Schmidt, assistant professor of marketing and local/regional food systems at Penn State, a team of […]
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In a story about employers expanding internship opportunities to recruit prospective employees, University of Maine alumna Bethany Ashley, now a senior auditor at BerryDunn, spoke to MaineBiz about her own summer internship experiences at the firm in between semesters.
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In May, 15 undergraduate students from the Maine Business School participated in a nine-day travel study trip to England to learn about the business of sports. They visited the stadiums where Premier League football teams Manchester United and Manchester City play. They also stopped at the National Football League (NFL) London headquarters and explored other […]
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In a story titled “Visiting Maine: Here’s what the locals love,” National Geographic shared a list of farms and farm stands on the Undiscovered Maine website, a student research initiative of the Maine Business School intended to create interest in visiting lesser known areas of the state and supporting small local businesses.
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Spectrum News spoke to Buffy McCue-Quinn, lecturer at the University of Maine Business School, about the spike in Maine home prices this past spring. “It was crazy. It was an absolute frenzy. There’s no way to get ahead of that inventory curve unless a bunch of people decide to move out of the state of […]
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The Bangor Daily News shared that Fortune magazine’s 2023 online MBA rankings place the MaineMBA, offered by the University of Maine’s Graduate School of Business, at 26th nationwide.
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Adrenalin reported that Norm O’Reilly, dean of the University of Maine Graduate School of Business, partnered on a study that determined Ontario University Athletics (OUA) has an annual economic impact of $300–$600 million. “Whether attracting students from out of town, bringing people to town as tourists, or building cultures of volunteerism in town, the 20 […]
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Melissa Smith, an alumna of the University of Maine who studied business administration, was listed as one of the Boston Globe’s Tech Power Players 50 for 2023. Smith is chair and CEO of WEX, which offers tools that help firms such as Expedia and Mastercard streamline and manage financial operations.
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