The Maine Business School continues to play a key role in the state on issues and concerns of import. Concurrently, we try to serve our alumni, students and community in numerous ways. UMaine faculty can be heard on local radio, public broadcasting and television news addressing issues of the day, offering insights and clarifying intricate financial and economic news for our citizens and policy makers. MBS faculty opinions and commentary can be read in newspapers throughout the state on a frequent, recurring basis.
This fall we had our first Convocation to start the New Year, recognizing our new and continuing faculty, and welcoming students to UMaine. Emily Shanks ’84, senior vice president and marketing manager for Bank of America, travelled from San Francisco to spend the day and deliver a keynote address. She brought her college roommate Melissa Baribault ’84, procedurals audit manager for The Hartford Insurance Group. Students were able to interact with both of them over a two-day visit.
At Homecoming, GBA held its first-ever brunch and tailgating reception. Stephen King even stopped by to have hotdogs with the students. In mid-October, faculty members Richard Borgman, Harold Daniel, Paul Myer and Bob Strong addressed the impact of the shrinking economy, moderated by Associate Dean Ivan Manev. This was open to the university and local community, was well attended and received, and was covered in the local press.
In November, the undergraduate American Marketing Association held its Maine State Collegiate Business Conference. Alumni Dennis Carey ’68, executive vice president of Nortel Networks Corp., and Frank X. Moore ’77, principal of Frank X. Moore and Associates, joined numerous other guests from around the state in addressing the audience.
Professor Terry Porter has led the development and launching of our new MBA Sustainability Program this semester, which places MBS in the forefront of such activities. Faculty colleagues Borgman and Myer are finishing up plans for the MBA field trip to Japan, and Daniel is putting the final touches on a MBA field trip to the Amazon rain forest. I am working on a trip to Russia for undergraduate students this spring.
These activities are a major contributor to our growing reputation as a business school and to our recognition as a leader in international education.
We have a lot going on at MBS. We are always delighted to hear from our alumni, and to welcome you back to campus. Your support of MBS is a critical component of our success as we continue to move forward. It is our goal to make you proud of your school and to continuously improve MBS.
John F. Mahon
Dean, College of Business, Public Policy and Health
John M. Murphy Chair of International Business Policy and Strategy
Professor of Management
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