Tholia Hallett, an accounting and finance student from Falmouth, Maine, has always enjoyed working with numbers and knew she wanted to study business. Hallet’s summer internship at Tyler Technologies, her second one with the company, gave her a peek at what her future career could look like. Read the full story about Hallet’s internship on […]
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Zachary Beaton spent his summer learning the ins and outs of management and sales at Sherwin-Williams. The rising senior from Hermon, Maine, did more than sell paint. Through job shadowing his managers and sales representatives, Beaton learned what is needed to successfully operate a business. Read Beaton’s full story on the Maine Business School website. […]
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The Times Record interviewed Erin Percival Carter, assistant professor of marketing at Maine Business School, about why for-profit companies give away products and services that it could charge for, like L.L. Bean providing free yoga classes. “It’s cultivating goodwill with exactly who they want their target customer to be — outdoorsy people in Maine. Where […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported that the University of Maine Graduate School of Business and the College of Engineering have partnered on a new MaineMBA concentration in Engineering Management. The idea for the MaineMBA concentration was sparked by the graduate certificate in engineering management, which includes several MBA courses in the curriculum.
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Henri Akono, associate professor of accounting at Maine Business School, spoke with the Times Record about the shortage of certified public accountants in Maine. Akono said improving job prospects in corporate accounting and other business fields have contributed to the shortage, among other factors. “In prior days, everybody would go into public accounting,” he said. […]
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The University of Maine Graduate School of Business and the College of Engineering have partnered on a new MaineMBA concentration in engineering management. “The University of Maine’s College of Engineering is world-class and is known to be one of the strengths of our great institution,” says Norm O’Reilly, dean of the Graduate School of Business. […]
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Four Maine Business School alumni recently started as management trainees at Bangor Savings Bank. In this program, they will spend the first six months rotating through all BSB departments, implementing bank projects, working on creating a professional brand and leadership and developing leadership skills. Management trainees also work with David Pease, senior vice president and […]
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The University of Maine has once again been featured in the annual Fiske Guide to Colleges. The publication, authored by former New York Times education editor Edward Fiske and updated annually for nearly 40 years, highlights more than 300 of the “best and most interesting” schools in the U.S., Canada, Great Britain and Ireland, according […]
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Taylor Ashley, Maine Business School internship coordinator, was among 40 professionals from the U.S. and Canada who participated in the Cooperative Education and Internship Association (CEIA) Internship Program Development Training in Vail, Colorado in June 2022. The CEIA Academy training focused on topics ranging from the history of co-ops and internships, program structure, strategic approaches […]
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Undergraduates in the Undiscovered Maine student research project took up a new task this spring semester: consulting with a Montessori school in Franklin County. This project perfectly demonstrated the mission of Undiscovered Maine, which is to provide valuable educational opportunities for students to learn web and social media strategies as well as organizational, management and […]
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