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UNB Faculty of Management
Atlantic Promise Scholarships and Bursaries provide financial support to Black and Indigenous students studying business
Faculty of Management
Posted: January 20, 2022 12:00:00 AM AST
Category: Students, Programs
UNB and the Faculty of Management is taking part in a new project to increase diversity and inclusion in its business programs. The Promise Scholars Initiative, an Atlantic Canadian business school project led by Dalhousie University, was created to help recruit, retain and support more Black and Indigenous students by offering financial aid and wraparound supports at the undergraduate and...
Read the full postRecent MBA grad wins Canada-wide financial futures challenge
Faculty of Management
Posted: December 31, 2021 12:00:00 AM AST
Category: Alumni Highlights, Student Investment Fund, Alumni
Deji (Philip) Adetunji (MBA’21) graduated last Spring with an MBA from UNB Fredericton and Student Investment Fund experience in his portfolio. It landed him a management job even before graduation and recognition from the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada for one of the top research papers on financial literacy for Canadians. Deji grew up and completed his undergraduate degree in...
Read the full postUNB business prof sheds light on US Government-Business Relations in Carbon Black Industry
Faculty of Management
Posted: December 8, 2021 12:00:00 AM AST
Category: Faculty, Alumni
Carbon black, a fine powder composed of elemental carbon, is used to manufacture a variety of common household products like tires, vinyl records, the soles of shoes and inks. As a reinforcing filler for tires, it increases resistance to wear and abrasion. Dr. David Foord recently published a study about the innovative carbon black industry that developed in the mid-twentieth century United...
Read the full postCreativity, Education and Entrepreneurship: new research traces a connection
Faculty of Management
Posted: November 24, 2021 12:00:00 AM AST
Category: Faculty
Is there a link between your creativity and the likelihood of launching a venture? A team of researchers at UNB recently studied this very question in relation to students; as a result of their findings, they published an article that provides practical advice for educators on how to design and deliver programs on entrepreneurship. The research was led by Dr. Maha Tantawy as part of her...
Read the full postThe dealings behind Canada’s most controversial bankruptcy: UNB prof wins award for new book
Faculty of Management
Posted: November 23, 2021 12:00:00 AM AST
Category: Faculty
To many scholars, research is an adventure of discovery, a journey with often unpredictable endings. When he began writing about the evolution of Canadian business, Dr. Barry Boothman, a management professor at UNB, had no idea where his work would take him. His adventure has spanned more than thirty-five years and led him into unexpected territory. In 2020 his 645-page Corporate Cataclysm:...
Read the full postBBA Alum Joins Forces with Current Business Students to Increase Recruitment and Retention of Newcomers
Faculty of Management
Posted: October 19, 2021 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Alumni Highlights, Alumni
Young alum Nicole Andrade (BBA’20) has only just begun her career, but she’s already doing exciting and meaningful work as part of FLIP, the Fredericton Local Immigration Partnership. Not only is she using the skills she learned in the sales accelerator program in the Faculty of Management, she’s also drawing on her own experience of being a newcomer to New Brunswick. Nicole...
Read the full postUNB's Faculty of Management International Graduate Internship Program
Faculty of Management
Posted: September 22, 2021 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Programs, Faculty Highlights
New Brunswick employers in high-growth sectors looking to hire top talent may be eligible for up to 75 percent wage subsidy thanks to UNB's Faculty of Management International Graduate Internship Program being launched this term. International students pursuing graduate studies in business at UNB bring a wealth of experience with them and, in some cases, multiple degrees. Many would like to...
Read the full postUNB’s faculty of management launches new MBA specialization in management analytics
Faculty of Management
Posted: August 20, 2021 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Programs
A new concentration in management analytics offered by the faculty of management at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton will provide MBA students data-rich decision-making tools to enhance their career potential.“Business is increasingly digitizing, resulting in the need for organizations to analyze a large amount of data for decision making,” says Devashis Mitra, dean of...
Read the full postWhen experience produces negative returns: A fresh perspective from UNB Researcher
Matthew MacLong
Posted: August 19, 2021 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Faculty
Performing tasks for the first time on the job is challenging, but how much experience should organizations expect their managers will need before they begin showing improvement in a new task? Very few studies capture the early stages of experiential learning in organizations. Typically, studies on this subject tend to focus on established organizations without going back far enough to see how...
Read the full postUNB business students work with Peterbilt Atlantic to meet new industry challengesost Title
Matthew MacLong
Posted: July 30, 2021 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Alumni, Programs, Students
After decades of dominating the traditional truck market, Peterbilt Atlantic, Atlantic Canada’s largest heavy-duty truck dealer, is adapting to a changing industry.To help them face this challenge, Peterbilt recently consulted with faculty of management students completing the Strategic Management course. The students conducted an industry analysis to consider opportunities that might...
Read the full postChanges in Stock Prices: solving a piece of the puzzle
Faculty of Management
Posted: July 16, 2021 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Faculty Highlights, Alumni, Faculty
Do you ever wonder if there is a relationship between stock prices and cash flows? Stock prices are the sum of discounted future expected dividends. In a conventional view of financial economics, fundamental cash flows, such as dividends, play an important role in driving stock price movements. Surprisingly, as recent empirical evidence shows, almost all variability of U.S. aggregate...
Read the full postDevashis Mitra reappointed dean of management
Faculty of Management
Posted: July 9, 2021 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Faculty
Dr. Devashis Mitra will remain in his position as dean of UNB's faculty of management for another two years. On July 7, Dr. Kathy Wilson, Acting Vice-President Academic (Fredericton) shared the following announcement with the university community:I am pleased to announce that Dr. Devashis Mitra’s term as dean of the faculty of management in Fredericton has been extended. Dr. Mitra...
Read the full postThe intersection of morality and economics: a case for regulating some goods in the market
Faculty of Management
Posted: May 28, 2021 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Faculty Highlights, Faculty
As part of their degree requirements, business students are introduced to the ongoing debate between economists and policymakers about whether markets should be open or regulated. Should all goods be available in the markets or should some, especially those that are potentially harmful, be regulated or even banned? Capitalists will argue that if consumers are willing to pay for certain goods,...
Read the full postExperiential learning kept this international student working in New Brunswick
Faculty of Management
Posted: April 22, 2021 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Alumni Highlights, Alumni
Kiran Mampilly (MBA’19) came to UNB to study in the MBA program as part of a dual degree program with Jindal Global Business School in India. His final year of study was in the Faculty of Management on the Fredericton campus and he graduated in 2019 with multiple job prospects in hand. He says this was due to the experiential nature of the program and the business network he was able to...
Read the full postCreating data driven solutions to world challenges – UNB’s 2021 Data Challenge
Faculty of Management
Posted: April 19, 2021 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: IBEC, Students
Students around the world connected through UNB this term to delve into data sets related to pressing world challenges, shape them into stories, and deliver actionable recommendations. They were part of the 2021 Data Challenge coordinated by the International Business and Entrepreneurship Centre (IBEC) housed within the faculty of management. Team-building, testing their...
Read the full postNew UNB mom among top business students in Atlantic Canada
Faculty of Management
Posted: April 19, 2021 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Students, Student Highlights
One of UNB’s newest moms has just received one of Atlantic Canada’s most prestigious awards for business students. Just days before delivering a baby boy, Stephanie Mallet of Moncton, NB, learned that she is one of nine students in Atlantic Canada to receive the 2021 Frank H. Sobey Award for Excellence in Business Studies worth $30,000. Candidates of this award are selected by the...
Read the full postPrescience and Optimism – a winning combination in these times
Faculty of Management
Posted: April 16, 2021 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Student Investment Fund, Students, Alumni
Students enrolled in UNB’s Student Investment Fund are wearing big smiles on their faces. On their last day of classes, they learned that one of their teams placed first in the global Chicago Quantitative Alliance (CQA) Challenge, beating out teams from high-ranking universities like Carnegie Mellon, University of Michigan Ann Arbor and Chinese University of Hong Kong. A second SIF team...
Read the full postAt UNB entrepreneurship is fun in more ways than one
Faculty of Management
Posted: March 30, 2021 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Programs, Students, Student Highlights
Remember what it was like trying to memorize the times table? This might be easy for some children, but for others it is a struggle that can lead to frustration. This year, a group of MBA students with UNB’s faculty of management used their business knowledge and skills to help a Fredericton based educational publishing company - threetwoone.fun - commercialize a multiplication story deck...
Read the full postOne foot in the door for UNB’s student venture analysts in training
Faculty of Management
Posted: February 25, 2021 12:00:00 AM AST
Category: Programs, Students, Student Highlights
Fazley Shabab Chowdhury is finishing his MBA degree program at UNB Fredericton with an experience he says he will never forget. As a student venture analyst completing the Venture Assessment course this year, he and his classmates were involved in an intense round of investment in TrojAI Inc., a Saint John, New Brunswick-based start-up that is developing solutions to protect AI platforms from...
Read the full post2021 APEX: A global community of students and entrepreneurs
Faculty of Management
Posted: February 2, 2021 12:00:00 AM AST
Category: Faculty Highlights, IBEC, Alumni
“International and transformative.” These two words are being used to sum up the 2021 APEX business plan competition hosted January 25-29, by the faculty of management's International Business and Entrepreneurship Centre (IBEC). This year APEX smashed all previous records by attracting 163 students in 70 teams, representing 45 universities from nine Canadian provinces and 15 other...
Read the full postBenefits and potential rivalry effects of sports sponsorship: practical insights from UNB researchers
Faculty of Management
Posted: January 27, 2021 12:00:00 AM AST
Category: Faculty, Faculty Highlights
Billions of dollars are spent each year in sports sponsorships. According to Statista, in 2017 alone, $16 bn (US) was spent on sport sponsorships in North America, $11 bn (US) in Europe and another $11 bn (US) in Asia. Sponsorships help teams and leagues support their players, operations and facilities, while companies are able to raise brand awareness and boost their public relations among...
Read the full postLaunching, growing and investing in businesses – this specialization has you covered
Faculty of Management
Posted: January 26, 2021 12:00:00 AM AST
Category: Programs
UNB Fredericton’s MBA concentration in entrepreneurship has been renamed “Venture Commercialization, Scaling and Investment”. While this is certainly a mouthful, professors in the entrepreneurship area in the faculty of management agree the new name more accurately reflects the learning experience students have in this specialization. It also describes the well-rounded skill...
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