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April 2008
Dick Gleason Receives Maine Business School ‘Achievement in Business’ Award
The Maine Business School recently named Auburn media executive Dick Gleason recipient of its 2008 Achievement in Business Award.
Gleason, a UMaine alum and member of the Maine Business School Advisory Board for the last three years, is president and owner of Gleason Media Services in Auburn. He has demonstrated a longstanding commitment to community service on multiple boards, commissions and area business, community and educational organizations.
Criteria for the Achievement in Business award includes achievement in a field of endeavor, demonstration of leadership, service to UMaine and its business school, service to community and career development, and a commitment and demonstration of life-long learning. Read More
UMAINE ACCOUNTING STUDENTS OFFER HELP WITH TAX RETURNS
University of Maine Business School accounting students under the supervision
of accounting professor Steven Colburn are offering free income tax
assistance to the public on Monday afternoons through April 14. The
long-standing UMaine Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program (VITA)
is designed for low- to moderate-income taxpayers, people with disabilities,
the elderly or students who need help, but the service will be provided
to anyone on campus or in surrounding communities with basic tax assistance
needs. It is sponsored by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. More details
are in a news release at http://www.umaine.edu/news/article.asp?id_no=2067
March 2008
SPIA PRESENTATION BROADCAST on Maine Public Radio's edition of Speaking
in Maine.
This was a rebroadcast of a March 17 event presented
by UMaine's School of Policy and International Affairs. "The Roots
of Terrorism: From the Horn of Africa to Pakistan,” featured
Mark Bellamy, senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International
Studies, and Bruce Riedel, senior foreign policy fellow at The Brookings
Institution.
March 26, 2008
MBS Student Receives Truman Scholar Award!
Erin McKenzie, an accounting major, was named a Truman Scholar yesterday. There were a total of 211 finalists this year chosen from a pool of 595 candidates, and she was one of 65 ultimately chosen to receive the award.
More information regarding the scholarship can be found here: http://www.truman.gov/news/news.htm and her profile is here: http://www.truman.gov/scholar_listing/scholar_listing_show.htm?user_id=247628
Join us in congratulating her for a truly remarkable achievement.
March 21, 2008
BUSINESS STUDENTS, PROFESSOR ON CHANNEL 2
Dr. Robert Strong and UMaine business seniors Jonathan Mortimer and Anh Do, were featured in a Thursday Channel 2 (WLBZ) story (http://www.wlbz2.com/news/local/article.aspx?storyid=83194) about job
prospects for graduating students who aspire to work on Wall Street or in related fields.
March 19, 2008
SPIFFY has been selected to present their portfolio strategy before a national panel of judges at the RISE symposium in Ohio next week. They are only one of sixteen schools that have been awarded this honor out of over 200 colleges and universities from over 50 countries around the globe. Congratulations SPIFFY!!
From UMaine Today, March 18, 2008
UMAINE IN TODAY’S NEWS
TELEVISION STORY WITH STRONG Channel 2 (WLBZ) interviewed Prof. Bob Strong from the Maine Business School on Monday, for a story about moves by the Federal Reserve to stabilize the national economy. A text version
([http://www.wcsh6.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=83031 ]http://www.wcsh6.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=83031) of the story is on the WCSH (Channel 6 in Portland) Web site.
NEWS REPORTS ON SPIA ACTIVITIES
Tuesday's Bangor Daily News includes a front-page story (http://bangornews.com/news/t/default.aspx?a=161737&template=print-article.htm) about Monday's UMaine School of Policy and International Affairs (SPIA) programs
featuring world affairs experts Bruce Riedel and Mark Bellamy, both of whom are members of SPIA's board of advisers. They spoke to a group of nearly 200 high school students, the largest percentage from Ellsworth High School, in the early
afternoon. Later in the day, Riedel and Bellamy gave a SPIA lecture series presentation on the roots of terrorism to a community audience of about 125 at Buchanan Alumni House.
Inside UMaine, March, 2008, Volum 3, Issue 9
Jamison, Einstein Win New Business Plan Competition
Justin Jamison, superintendent at UMaine's Rogers Farm and the J.F. Witter Teaching and Research Center, and Brooks Einstein of Seattle, Wash., both graduate students in the Maine Business School, recently shared first place and a $5,000 prize in a Green Products Competition for their new business proposal, "Local Food Solutions."
The proposal outlines a plan to set up a micro-processing facility for organic milk to supply the Bangor area.
They were among four teams to make oral presentations at the dedication ceremony for the Foster Student Innovation Center in January. Winners were announced Feb. 1.
Jamison has several years' experience in agricultural management and Einstein has experience in store leadership with Whole Foods Market, currently the world leading retailer of organic and local foods. Second place went to MBA student Willis Beazley of Harpswell for his plan to make soaps from glycerin, a by-product of biodiesel.
February 2008
LL Bean / Lee Surace Colloquium Series: Dr. Robert
A. Strong
"Optimal Stock Price Ranges: Evidence from Benford's Law"
Dr. Strong's presentation at USM's Glickman Library presented the
results of his research, showing that firms announce stock splits with
statistical regularity in order to induce stock prices to fall within
certain price ranges. To the extent that stock splits predict abnormal
returns, Professor Strong's research might indicate capital market mispricing.
UMaine Business School Team Named National Competition
Semifinalist
Contact: Omar Khan, 581- 1949; George Manlove, 581-3756
Local students on successful business marketing team
ORONO – The UMaine student chapter of the American Marketing
Association has been named one of eight semifinalist teams in one of
the nation’s most prestigious college business presentation competitions.
In their second year entering the national McGraw-Hill Higher Education
Case Competition, and just three years after the revitalization of the
UMaine AMA chapter, members of the case analysis and competition team
were among 16 finalists or semifinalists selected in December to receive
honors at the AMA international conference April 3 in New Orleans.
The case competition involved students from more than 60 of the country’s
top business schools analyzing a hypothetical business marketing dilemma
and proposing marketing strategies. The case under consideration was
to develop a marketing plan for a book publisher trying to market its
products and services on the Internet.
The Maine Business School students proposed a realistic model that
included "some very creative avenues," says Omar Khan, an
assistant professor of marketing and chapter advisor. "They actually
had this idea for an application that heightened the interactivity among
the students, the professors and the book publisher."
Team members were: Morgan Bickford of Lebanon, Maine, chair of the
case competition team, and Bethany Brown of Farmington; Heather Conary
of Orrington, Joshua Lagasse of Wells; Bethany Mealey of Farmingdale;
Emin Okutan of Ankara, Turkey; Julie Salvato of Winslow and Amy Shepard
of Rockland.
Case competition finalists this year included teams from Loyola University-New
Orleans, Southern Connecticut State University, Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville,
Texas State University-San Marcos, University of Nevada-Las Vegas, University
of Pennsylvania (Wharton), University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and Western
Michigan University.
UMaine Business School MBA Team Competes in International
Case Competition
January 9, 2008
Knowledge of accounting
The UMaine team competed in the John Molson MBA International Case
Competition in Montreal, the oldest and most prestigious competition
of its kind, featuring representation from top business schools around
the world. The UMaine team scored a win in its first competition. More
information about the activity is at http://www.mbacasecomp.com/. UMaine
professors Paul Mayer and Harold Daniel were the team faculty advisors,
which was made up of MBA students Kevin Paul, Christine Clark, Cristin
O'Brien and Thomas Miller.
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