Maine farmers surveyed recently for a University of Maine Cooperative Extension research project expressed optimism about the state’s farming opportunities and suggested business would improve if the “buy local” message reaches more consumers and institutions.
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A recent column in the Bangor Daily News by Ivan Manev, dean of the Maine Business School, discusses the importance of access to sound business and marketing expertise to entrepreneurs trying to move forward with new ideas or inventions. Evaluating entrepreneurial opportunity is critical to the entrepreneurial process, he says. Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
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A University of Maine professor of accounting advises that taxpayers beginning to think about filing tax returns for 2011 should consider electronic filing. Professor Steven Colburn of the Maine Business School, who oversees the university’s longstanding taxpayer assistance program with student volunteers, is available to discuss tips for filers.
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Andrei Strukov, a UMaine instructor of Russian and an instructional technology development specialist and web developer at UMaine, was in a photo that accompanied a Bangor Daily News story about Portland’s interest in reviving its relationship with the Russian city of Arkhangelsk, Russia. Strukov was acting as a translator during a meeting Wednesday of Portland […]
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Tom Taylor, the chair of UMaine’s department of public administration, commented in a story on the Bangor Daily News website about the recent wave of fraud by municipal officers and town officials. Taylor said he would like to see increased professionalism, including the hiring of town or city managers to work on finances and other […]
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A UMaine faculty and a staff member combined to write an opinion column in the Portland Press Herald about the lack of fiscal leadership on the part of both Congress and President Obama. John Mahon, the John M. Murphy chaired Professor of International Business Policy and Strategy at the Maine Business School, and Michael Hastings, […]
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Gloria Vollmers, a UMaine accounting professor, has an op-ed in the Bangor Daily News about the kinds of American households that are not paying federal taxes. Vollmers argues that a large part of those that are not paying include the working poor, families and the elderly, and those groups should not be condemned for their […]
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UMaine economist James McConnon was quoted in a Maine Public Broadcasting Radio story about reports of stronger-than-expected Black Friday sales in Maine. McConnon said strong sales could be the result of consumers with less personal debt and a decline in personal savings rates. Nory Jones, a UMaine associate professor in the Maine Business School and […]
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An opinion column, “The value of networks,” by UMaine Business School Dean Ivan Manev appeared in Saturday’s Bangor Daily News. In the column, Manev describes the ways in which the Internet is affecting the development and use of network in business settings.
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Events surrounding Thursday’s William S. Cohen Lecture, which included a talk by Gen. James Jones and roundtable with Cohen, were covered by several local media outlets. Jones was President Barack Obama’s first National Security Advisor and Cohen, a Bangor native, is the former congressman, senator, and secretary of defense under President Bill Clinton. The Bangor […]
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