Ideas with Impact
UNB Faculty of Management

Management students learn hands on new venture creation

Faculty of Management

Posted: January 23, 2023 12:00:00 AM AST

Category: Students, Student Highlights, Programs



At UNB's Faculty of Management, entrepreneurial and experiential learning gives students the knowledge and skills to solve real problems. Students wanting hands-on experience in new venture creation and entrepreneurship - at either the undergraduate or MBA level - have been doing amazing things in their community.  MBA student Adineke Omolara is creating a circular economy digital...

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Social entrepreneurs in the making: a new course on community leadership

Faculty of Management

Posted: January 23, 2023 12:00:00 AM AST

Category: Programs, Alumni, Faculty



A new business course at UNB’s faculty of management is teaching students how to use their business and entrepreneurial skills to solve social problems and support community groups. Students in the new Community Leadership course conduct research to examine community issues, draft a vision statement for a social venture and prepare business plans and financial models. Students also work...

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Insights into the waning US Innovation System

Faculty of Management

Posted: January 20, 2023 12:00:00 AM AST

Category: Faculty, Alumni



The transfer and commercialization of knowledge drives economic activity, so it is some cause for concern that innovation and technology scholars have noted a slowdown of the once robust US innovation system. This will have an impact on national productivity and economic growth. Dr. Ibrahim Shaikh, a business professor with UNB’s faculty of management, has published a study that provides...

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Towards sustainability: managing biomass supply chains effectively 

Faculty of Management

Posted: January 20, 2023 12:00:00 AM AST

Category: Alumni, Faculty



The goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2050 is easy to suggest, but it is incredibly difficult to put into action. To promote sustainable practices, many researchers and practitioners look to the environment-friendly use of biomass, plant material that is used as fuel to create heat and electricity. Finance professor, Dr. Azam Shamsi and quantitative methods professor Alireza Tajbakhsh with...

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