Ideas with Impact
Posted: March 31, 2015 5:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Programs, Students
A team of UNB’s Student Investment Fund students placed second in the 2015 Argus University Challenge. Argus is the industry leading software for real estate investment analysis and data-driven decision-making. The team members Daniel Slipp, Jeff Mott (both MBA candidates) and Josh Bubar (a BBA student) modelled various financial scenarios for a distressed real estate...
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Posted: March 26, 2015 5:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Students, Programs
A team made up of UNB Fredericton’s Student Investment Fund students finished top of the table at the Van Berkom Small Cap Case Competition hosted by the John Molson School of Business at Concordia in Montreal March 20-21. The prestigious two-day competition sponsored by Van Berkom Associates challenged students with a live case analyzing actual companies. Universities participating...
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Posted: March 25, 2015 5:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Students, Programs
Most startups are inherently risky, which is why ventures have such a hard time taking off. But what if you could look at them through the eyes of an investor, see beyond their risk and identify the real opportunities? UNB Fredericton's faculty of business administration MBA and BBA students are learning exactly how to do this through a new course called "Venture Assessment" offered this winter...
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Posted: March 25, 2015 5:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Programs, Students
The BMO Financial Group APEX Business Plan Competition is a very special time of year at UNB Fredericton. When the event took place this year January 21 – 23, the air was filled with energy as the most entrepreneurial minds from universities across the country came together to compete head to head. After completing a practice round with feedback from the judges and filming an...
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Posted: March 25, 2015 5:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Programs, Students
Fourth year BBA students at UNB Fredericton got to experience a day in the life of a CEO this term. Competitive Strategy is the capstone course of the BBA program, which most students complete in their final year, and this term students participated in a half-day long assessment session that put them into leadership positions with a hypothetical organization where they had to make critical...
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Posted: March 25, 2015 5:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Students, Programs
Twenty-five retiring or newly retired military personnel transitioning from military careers to civilian life took part in a day of workshops last November facilitated by students with UNB Fredericton’s International Business and Entrepreneurship Centre (IBEC). This kind of transition can be challenging, but gaining some business basics and learning about the current challenges and...
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