The Portland Press Herald/Times Record spoke to Erin Percival Carter, assistant professor of marketing at the Maine Business School, about L.L. Bean’s Freeport store and campus undergoing a $50 million makeover. Percival Carter said that proposed changes make sense for a company that has long used the promise of outdoor experiences to cultivate enduring relationships […]
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University Bookstore will host a book signing for “Business the NHL Way” featuring authors Rick Burton and Maine Business School Dean of Graduate School of Business & Professor of Marketing & Sport Management Norm O’Reilly on Friday, Jan. 27 at 3 p.m. The authors will be joined by UMaine Men’s Ice Hockey coach Ben Barr. […]
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The Maine Business School’s undergraduate and graduate programs have been ranked among the best online programs in the country by U.S. News & World Report. The University of Maine’s Graduate School of Business has been ranked among the 2023 Best Online MBA programs at No. 51 and ranked No. 31 MBA programs for veterans. The […]
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The Maine Business School is now offering a new major in Business Information Systems and Security Management (BISSM). This new major prepares students for a fast-growing industry where students are in demand, and employees can earn a six-figure median salary. Recent estimates suggest that jobs for information security analysts will grow by 33% from 2020 […]
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This fall semester, 10 Maine Business School students tackled real-world problems in the healthcare industry through a partnership with Northern Light Health. The students worked closely with human resource professionals to offer solutions around recruitment and engagement. This special topics class originated from a conversation between MBS internship coordinator Taylor Ashley and Paul Bolin, ’92 […]
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Norm O’Reilly, dean of the Graduate School of Business at the University of Maine, was interviewed by CEO Magazine about the MaineMBA program. “We are very proud of the fact that the MaineMBA can be taken online or in-person, and from Maine, from across the United States or from anywhere in the world at the […]
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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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