Ideas with Impact
UNB Faculty of Management
Understanding New Brunswick’s History of Innovation
Faculty of Management
Posted: October 25, 2022 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Alumni, Faculty
Dr. David Foord, a professor with UNB’s faculty of management, has co-authored with UNB colleagues Dr. Gregory Kealey and Dr. John McLaughlin a chapter on New Brunswick’s science, technology and innovation policy in the recently published book Ideas, Institutions, and Interests: The Drivers of Canadian Provincial Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy. The chapter presents a...
Read the full postInvestigating the impact of cash flows vs. discount rates on stock prices
Faculty of Management
Posted: October 24, 2022 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Alumni, Faculty
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, in the U.S. stock market almost all variability of aggregate stock prices comes from changes in expected returns, and almost none of it comes from changes in...
Read the full postPredicting workplace tradeoffs: impact of job crafting competencies
Faculty of Management
Posted: October 24, 2022 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Faculty, Alumni
Jobcrafting is the process of workers making changes to their positions to improve the job for themselves. It can involve adding or reducing tasks, or otherwise changing aspects of the job. In a recent article published in Human Resource Management (included in the Financial Times Top 50 journals), Dr. Patrick Bruning introduces the concept of jobcrafting competencies to predict tradeoffs...
Read the full postDr. Daniel Coleman awarded Professor Emeritus Rank
Faculty of Management
Posted: May 31, 2022 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Alumni, Faculty
At its 193rd Encaenia ceremony in May 2022, the University of New Brunswick honoured its longest serving business Dean, Dr. Daniel Coleman, by awarding him the rank of Professor Emeritus. The rank of Professor Emeritus is awarded to professors who have served the university with distinction throughout their careers. The title is awarded upon after retirement from their academic...
Read the full postFaculty of Management student receives Frank H. Sobey Award for Excellence in Business Studies
Faculty of Management
Posted: May 24, 2022 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Student Highlights, Students, Alumni
Logan Geraghty finished his final year of UNB’s BBA program with honours in accounting and finance and a $35,000 scholarship. He was one of nine students in Atlantic Canada to receive the prestigious Frank H. Sobey Award for Excellence in Business Studies this year. The Frank H. Sobey Awards for Excellence in Business Studies presents awards of $35,000 each. All full-time business...
Read the full postFrom first co-op student to growing business development in New Brunswick
Faculty of Management
Posted: March 23, 2022 12:22:00 AM ADT
Category: Alumni
Erica Ward (BBA'06) was the first of two co-op students in the Faculty of Management's co-op program. She's now Culture Manager at Opportunities New Brunswick, and her story below was originally written and published by Co-Operative Education and Work-Integrated Learning (CEWIL) Canada. Erica smiled as she told me the story about how she became one of the first two co-op students at the...
Read the full postBest 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...
Read the full postMarket 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...
Read the full postUNB 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...
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