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UNB Faculty of Management

Best practices for managing Open Innovation – around the world and here at UNB

Faculty of Management

Posted: February 24, 2022 12:00:00 AM AST

Category: Alumni, Faculty

When we think successful innovative companies, one of the first that comes to mind is Tesla. What we don’t think of so readily are the number of small-tech companies that lack the resources Tesla has, but have been able to operate successfully because of Tesla selectively sharing its alternative energy innovations to the public. “Open innovation”, a term created in 2014 by...

Market Predictability - New research to improve investment decision making

Faculty of Management

Posted: February 23, 2022 12:00:00 AM AST

Category: Faculty

The next generation of investors coming from UNB’s faculty of management may have better decision-making skills thanks to the research of Dr. Azam Shamsi. Understanding how markets respond to economic conditions around the world to predict future stock prices is a question she addresses in her article, “Do Financial variables help predict the conditional distribution of the market...

UNB SIF Team wins 2022 CFA Atlantic Ethics Challenge

Faculty of Management

Posted: February 9, 2022 12:00:00 AM AST

Category: Student Highlights, Students, Student Investment Fund

A team of students completing UNB’s Student Investment Fund (SIF) class just won the top prize in the Atlantic Canadian CFA Ethics Challenge. Ethical decision-making and conduct establishes trust between investors and their clients. Investors cannot operate without trust, so as part of their yearlong training to become investment professionals, SIF students complete an online course in...