Three 2010 University of Maine graduates are partnering with the Maine Business School and the Foster Center for Student Innovation to create the first annual Maine Business Challenge, a competition to financially assist student entrepreneurs from UMaine to start a business.
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The chief executive officer and president of Proctor & Gamble spoke affably with a hundreds of University of Maine business students Wednesday about successful leadership traits and his company’s commitment to corporate social responsibility. Bob McDonald, who also chairs the board for the $83 billion-a-year consumer products corporation, stressed to a packed Minsky Recital Hall […]
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A Bangor Daily News article about the 10th anniversary of Bangor’s American Folk Festival includes a reference to research by the University of Maine-based Center for Tourism Research and Outreach, which revealed that 93 percent of visitors to the festival say they return each year. The research on visitor experience and economic analysis of the […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported on a $10,000 national Pearson Prize awarded Monday to UMaine financial economic and business administration major Rachel Binder-Hathaway, a Millinocket native who established a non-profit organization, Seeds of Change, to help impoverished women and street orphans in Bangladesh access food, medical care and educational opportunities. Binder-Hathaway has been living in […]
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University of Maine business and economics student Rachel Binder-Hathaway, currently in Bangladesh helping impoverished people access small business loans, has received a prestigious Pearson Prize in Higher Education.
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Prof. Bob Strong of the Maine Business School faculty was quoted in a Seeking Alpha online article, analyzing the current volatility in the stock market. Seeking Alpha describes itself as being “the premier website for actionable stock market opinion and analysis, and vibrant, intelligent finance discussion.”
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Channel 7 (WVII) (http://www.wvii.com/) interviewed UMaine associate professor of finance Pank Agrrawal Wednesday for a news report on how the nation’s credit rating downgrade and stock market turmoil may affect people in Maine. Agrrawal says a correction now could prevent a more serious one later, and that consumers should remain confident in the strength of […]
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John Mahon, who holds the John M. Murphy Chair in International Business Policy and Strategy and is a professor of management at the Maine Business School at UMaine, had a column in this weekend’s Bangor Daily News. Mahon wrote about approaches to taxing large businesses and noted a study being done by Maine Business School […]
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Wall Street Journal personal finance columnist Jason Zweig interviewed Pank Agrrawal, a member of the Maine Business School faculty, for a recent article on interpreting stock market gains and losses. Agrrawal says that conventional charts on market websites don’t tell the complete story. Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
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A business column by UMaine’s John Mahon, who holds the John M. Murphy Chair in International Business Policy and Strategy and is a professor of management at the Maine Business School, called for concrete actions to move Maine’s economy forward. Mahon said efforts need to be focused on attracting and retaining new businesses to diversify […]
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