Ideas with Impact
UNB Faculty of Management
Celebrating entrepreneurship with stories from the trenches
Ideas with Impact
Posted: January 13, 2017 4:00:00 AM AST
Category: Programs
Networking with experienced entrepreneurs is a great way for business students to understand how the entrepreneurial theories they’ve learned about play out in the real world. Many students admit to feeling shy and awkward about attending networking events, however; they’re not sure what to say sometimes and are afraid of looking unprofessional. This year, UNB’s International...
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Ideas with Impact
Posted: January 12, 2017 4:00:00 AM AST
Category: Students, Programs
November is the time of year when university students start focusing on their final term papers and getting ready for final exams. This past November, BBA students at the University of New Brunswick Fredericton campus devoted a lot of their time and energy orchestrating a food drive for Greener Village Food bank, a collective that operates on the north side of Fredericton. The project was...
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Ideas with Impact
Posted: January 4, 2017 4:00:00 AM AST
Category: Programs, Students
September at the University of New Brunswick brings the arrival of new students and return of former students and one of the most common questions you hear around campus is, “What did you do for the summer?” This year, third BBA student Natasha Youssef has a very interesting reply to that question, because she started her summer off with an adventure in Berlin. She travelled there...
Read the full postCelebrating business professor's discovery journey
Ideas with Impact
Posted: January 4, 2017 4:00:00 AM AST
Category: Faculty
When he was a child growing up in the Netherlands, Dr. Martin Wielemaker was always making things at home. He was intrigued by new technologies and products, he says, which probably explains why he studied Industrial Design Engineering when he grew up, and then later completed a PhD in Strategic Initiatives. Wielemaker now teaches courses in strategy, entrepreneurship, managing innovation...
Read the full postMuch depends on supply chains: two case studies involving the Internet-of-Things
Ideas with Impact
Posted: January 4, 2017 4:00:00 AM AST
Category: Faculty
People and organizations all over the world are connected through the Internet. Now, increasingly, our things are connected to other things all over the world. The Internet-of-Things (IoT) is a hot topic among information technology experts because of the unlimited ways it can have an impact on every aspect of our lives. Dr. Rebecca Angeles, a business professor with UNB’s Faculty of...
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