Maine Business School

A photo of four Bangor Savings Bank management trainees— Allison Treat, Sierra Dorney, Braden Soule, and Emily Colter

MBS alumni: Bangor Savings management trainees

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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UMaine once again featured in Fiske Guide to Colleges 

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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Ashley participates in CEIA Internship Program Development Training

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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Undiscovered Maine students take on a consulting project

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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3 MBS students turn internships into employment

An internship is an important way for students to explore possible career paths. And it’s always exciting when students turn their summer internship into full-time employment. Three Maine Business School students from the class of 2022 — Allison Treat, Cameron Houde and Gabby Benson — did just that. Their internship profiles, including why they decided […]

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Insights publishes piece about Maine Business School DEI efforts by Brooks, Graham

Insights, the online publication of the business school accreditor AACSB, published the story “Tackling Diversity Along Many Dimensions” by Melanie Brooks, marketing and communications manager for the Maine Business School, and C. Matt Graham, associate professor of business information systems. The piece describes efforts made by the Maine Business School in recent years to improve […]

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University of Maine announces spring 2022 Dean’s List

The University of Maine recognized 2,951 students for achieving Dean’s List honors in the spring 2022 semester. Of the students who made the Dean’s List, 1,938 are from Maine, 955 are from 41 other states and 58 are from 30 countries other than the U.S. To be eligible for the Full-time Dean’s List, a student […]

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WABI interviews Agrrawal about how rising interest rates will affect Mainers

Pankaj Agrrawal, professor of finance at Maine Business School, spoke to WABI (Channel 5 in Bangor) about how rising interest rates will impact Mainers. Aggrawal says the rise in inflation happened due to a combination of imbalance in supply and demand, overseas conflict, supply chain shortages, COVID-related impacts on unemployment and the housing market. Raising […]

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Nick Poulin: Achieving more at UMaine

Nick Poulin from Augusta, Maine is one of the 2021–22 James S. Stevens Outstanding Junior Award recipients. He is a marketing and new media double major, and will be a senior in the fall. Poulin works for ASAP on campus, and is a marketing intern for both the Maine Business School and the United Way […]

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Jord Thomas: MaineMBA at any age

Why would a 57-year-old who lives in Escondido, California decide to earn his MBA from the University of Maine?  A sense of community, history and flexibility.   Jord Thomas had hit a wall promotion-wise at his job. He works as a production operations supervisor at a recovery firm serving major banks and vehicle manufacturers. He […]

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