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UNB Faculty of Management
UNB Fredericton signs accreditations with CPHR NB
UNB Faculty of Management and CPHRNB
Posted: November 4, 2019 12:00:00 AM AST
Category: Programs
Business students focusing their study on human resources management at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton have a more direct path to obtaining the Chartered Professionals in Human Resources designation. The University's faculty of management reached an agreement with CPHR New Brunswick to provide accreditation of its Bachelor of Business Administration with a Major in Human...
Read the full postFinding clients and keeping them: advice from an expert
Liz Lemon-Mitchell
Posted: October 8, 2019 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Alumni Highlights, Programs, Alumni
When they graduate with business degrees, students bring specialized knowledge and technical skills to the workplace. For those starting careers in the finance and investment industry, one of the biggest challenges they will face is finding new clients and keeping them. This week, finance students got advice from an expert on how to identify who their clients were and how to communicate...
Read the full postUNB Student Youngest Intern on the Private Equity Funds Team
Liz Lemon-Mitchell
Posted: September 6, 2019 10:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Alumni
Just a few years ago, Ruthfi Azzahra moved to Fredericton from Jakarta, Indonesia, with the goal of going to university and finding a career in investments. After this summer, she is pretty close to reaching that goal. For the past four months, she has been immersed in the industry through a Co-op placement with PSP Investments. Based in Montreal, Quebec, PSP Investments is one of...
Read the full postIndustry Expert to Pass on Knowledge and Connections to SIF students
Liz Lemon-Mitchell
Posted: September 6, 2019 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Faculty, Programs, Student Investment Fund
Finance students in the faculty of management at the University of New Brunswick will have access to a wealth of industry experience and professional connections with the new director of the Centre for Financial Studies, Don Wishart. Wishart is president of Seamark Asset Management Ltd., a Halifax based investment management firm, and brings 25 years of investment management experience to the...
Read the full postNew First-Year Business Planning and Entrepreneurship Course Brings Real-Life to the Classroom
Kelly Anderson
Posted: August 21, 2019 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Faculty, Students
It’s a year of firsts for the Faculty of Management and BBA students on the Fredericton campus. The Faculty is rolling out its first year of required courses in experiential learning for BBA students – who are in their first year in the program. It’s also the first time for some alumni of the Faculty to step up to become mentors to this new generation of students. Bright-eyed...
Read the full postCredits for sales: a win-win with experiential learning
Liz Lemon-Mitchell
Posted: July 15, 2019 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Programs, Students
Based in Moncton, NB, Malley Industries has been manufacturing ambulances, wheelchair accessible vehicles, plastic products and specialized commercial fleets for a wide range of clients since 1979. It is one of the largest adaptive mobility manufacturers in Canada, and this spring a group of BBA students in UNB’s Faculty of Management worked with Malley Industries on two consulting...
Read the full postLearning the benefits of quantitative investment methods first hand
Liz Lemon-Mitchell
Posted: July 3, 2019 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Students, Programs
A team of five students enrolled in UNB’s new Master in Quantitative Investment Management (MQIM) program learned the benefits of using quantitative and data rich methods first hand this year by competing in the global Chicago Quantitative Alliance (CQA) Investment Challenge. The team, which included Huang Xu, Jiaji (Justin) Feng, Justin Arsenault, Lowry Zhu and Joseph MacCallum, used the...
Read the full postSome unexpected benefits of experiential learning
Liz Lemon-Mitchell
Posted: June 26, 2019 12:00:00 PM ADT
Category: Faculty, Students
The benefits of experiential learning are well known at the University of New Brunswick. Students learn first-hand how theory applies to real world challenges and develop more confidence in themselves as a result. This year Dr. Martin Wielemaker had a pleasant surprise after integrating a real-world project into his International Business class through X-Culture.org. Out of 186 university...
Read the full postManagement is the new name; more experience is the game
Liz Lemon-Mitchell
Posted: June 20, 2019 12:00:00 PM ADT
Category: Faculty, Alumni
What are you doing with your business degree? We’re always asking that question of our alumni. Here are just some of the answers: our alumni are managing accounts, investment portfolios and technologies; leading start-ups, projects and teams; and running training facilities, schools and other non-profits. In a recent vision and strategic planning exercise members of the Faculty of...
Read the full postUNB Alumnus Building a Bridge to Asia for N.B. Company
Kelly Anderson
Posted: May 20, 2019 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Alumni
Jay Yang (BBA’16, MBA’18) is a prime example of why recruiting international students is a good growth strategy for New Brunswick. After working in a plywood export company in China, Jay decided to study in Shanghai, where he ran into a teacher from Montreal who had spent time in Oromocto. He encouraged Jay to apply to UNB for a business degree program, and Jay ended up traveling...
Read the full postBiting Into Experiential Learning
Kelly Anderson
Posted: May 15, 2019 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Students
Four MBA students at UNB Fredericton had a tasty learning experience during their Buyer Behaviour marketing course over the 2019 winter term. Their assignment was to work with a real-life business to complete a survey on customer behaviour and bring the business recommendations based on the findings. The team chose to work with the iconic Fredericton diner, The Cabin. Owner Dave Halfyard was...
Read the full postBusiness professor honoured for the third time by his country
Liz Lemon-Mitchell
Posted: February 28, 2019 12:00:00 PM AST
Category: Faculty
Being recognized by your country with a distinguished medal doesn’t happen to everyone; imagine being singled out for this distinction three times! In October, Dr. Wiktor Askanas, a Professor Emeritus with the Faculty of Business Administration, received the Order of Merit from the Polish National Education Commission, an honour bestowed upon people who have made an outstanding and...
Read the full postBuyer beware: how to avoid being duped by consumer scams
Liz Lemon-Mitchell
Posted: February 28, 2019 12:00:00 PM AST
Category: Faculty
If you’re like most people, probably a week does not go by without you being contacted at least once or twice by some form of consumer scammer. We hear about these scams in the media all the time: credit or debit card frauds, identity-theft schemes, lottery frauds, ponzi schemes are just a few. While many people think they’re savvy enough to recognize consumer scams, a surprising...
Read the full postCelebrating prof’s contribution to business education
Jenna Evans
Posted: February 28, 2019 12:00:00 PM AST
Category: Faculty
During the annual Atlantic Schools of Business (ASB) Conference last September, the ASB Executive recognized one of their longest serving members for his many contributions to business education in the region. Dr. Basu Sharma received the 2018 Award of Excellence for outstanding service to business scholarship. Sharma has been with the University of New Brunswick Fredericton in the business...
Read the full postHow to get funding for your research project
Liz Lemon-Mitchell
Posted: February 28, 2019 12:00:00 PM AST
Category: Faculty
There is an old saying that if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. This age-old advice certainly applies to Dr. Hsin-Chen Lin, a marketing professor with the Faculty of Business Administration at the University of New Brunswick Fredericton, and her efforts to obtain national research funding. After her first application for a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)...
Read the full postCharles Fraser establishes new student venture fund at UNB
Alumni News
Posted: February 27, 2019 12:00:00 AM AST
Category: Alumni Highlights, Programs, Alumni
The faculty of business administration at UNB Fredericton has a new investment fund program thanks to Charles 'Chuck' Fraser (BBA’68).The retired wealth manager returned to UNB to celebrate his 50th reunion at Homecoming 2018. After visiting with dean of business administration, Dev Mitra, and meeting fourth-year BBA student Herbert Bempah, he was intrigued with the faculty’s...
Read the full postCryptocurrency: the future of high risk investing
Jenna Evans and Luke Saunders
Posted: February 27, 2019 12:00:00 AM AST
Category: Faculty
The development of cryptocurrencies, and in particular blockchain technology, is one of the 'next big things' to capture the imagination of academics and industry. It has caught the attention of Dr. Donglei Du, a professor in quantitative methods at the University of New Brunswick Fredericton, who has been investigating how blockchain can be used to improve investment decisions. In...
Read the full postUNB competitive in another domain: team places third in competition
Luke Saunders
Posted: February 27, 2019 12:00:00 AM AST
Category: Students
When they signed up to compete in the 14th Annual Organizational Behaviour Case Competition this year, four UNB business students said they were in it for the learning experience and the chance to network with professionals in the human resources industry. Molly Grace Pittman, Jenna O’Brien, Gabby Schenkels, and Maddy Graves, all second-year students in the BBA program, found themselves...
Read the full postWhy we do what we do: new study sheds light on our susceptibility to social influence
Jenna Evans
Posted: February 27, 2019 12:00:00 AM AST
Category: Faculty
Social influence is a growing field of interest among scholars. A recent study by Dr. Patrick Bruning and his colleagues, Dr. Brad Alge and Dr. Hsin-Chen Lin, provides insight to how our decisions and actions may be influenced by our social networks. Bruning is a professor of organization studies with the Faculty of Business Administration at the University of New Brunswick Fredericton and Lin...
Read the full postMaking connections to last a lifetime: BMO APEX Business Plan Competition
Luke Saunders
Posted: February 26, 2019 12:00:00 AM AST
Category: Students, Programs, IBEC
Using drone technology to inspect infrastructural integrity of bridges, exoskeletal technology to help physically impaired people walk, and a chemical process to produce super alloy out of carbon: these were some of the ideas being pitched at the recent 2019 BMO Financial Group APEX Business Plan Competition. Over 26 teams of students from across the country participated in the competition...
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