Ideas with Impact
UNB Faculty of Management
The 8th Annual UNB Data Challenge: Unleashing the Power of Open Data
Faculty of Management
Posted: December 10, 2024 12:00:00 AM AST
Category: IBEC , Student Highlights
The 8th UNB Data Challenge, organized by UNB’s International Business and Entrepreneurship Centre (IBEC), brought together teams of students to showcase the transformative potential of open data. Participants used open data from governments, non-profits, and NGOs to create data visualizations that told insightful stories. These visualizations communicated research insights and recommendations, highlighting the practical applications of data in driving positive change. This annual event...
McCain Foods partners with UNB: Empowering the next generation through the Faculty of Management Speaker Series
Faculty of Management
Posted: October 25, 2023 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: IBEC , Alumni Highlights
When it comes to preparing students for the real world, there's nothing quite like learning from industry experts who have been there and done that. For over seven years, the University of New Brunswick's faculty of management has been providing its students with just such an opportunity through its Speaker Series. The 2023-2024 academic year is set to be even more exciting as McCain Foods has signed on as the corporate sponsor for this program. Since its inception in 2016, the Speaker...
Creating data driven solutions to world challenges – UNB’s 2021 Data Challenge
Faculty of Management
Posted: April 19, 2021 12:00:00 AM ADT
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 abilities and learning new skills were big take-aways for students over the two days of the...
2021 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 countries. While the COVID-19 pandemic forced the competition to go virtual, there turned out to be a...
Results from the Largest Business Plan Competition in Canada
Liz Lemon-Mitchell
Posted: February 7, 2020 12:00:00 AM AST
Category: Programs , Students , IBEC
What began over two decades ago as a small competition for the best business plan in an entrepreneurship course at UNB has become a national event for university students across Canada. In the early 2000's, the Faculty of Management moved the competition out of the classroom to create an Atlantic competition, and in the past ten years since BMO Financial Group began sponsoring, it has attracted student teams from one side of Canada to the other. This year the BMO Financial Group APEX Business...
Making 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 January 24th and 25th to compete for $20,000 in prizes. “It was a very exciting place to...
Students Win 145 000 with their Business Plan
Liz Lemon-Mitchell
Posted: July 12, 2011 5:00:00 AM ADT
Category: IBEC
Have you ever seen footage from a security camera? Usually it is pretty difficult to make anything out in great detail because the video has a grainy, low resolution picture due to the fact there is a trade off between image quality and data storage space. At least that’s been the case until now. A team from the University of New Brunswick has found a solution to this problem, and their innovative idea won them top prize in the 2011 New Brunswick Innovation Foundation's (NBIF) Breakthru...
Continued Success for UNB teams at the CIBC Business Plan Competition
Liz Lemon-Mitchell
Posted: July 16, 2010 5:00:00 AM ADT
Category: IBEC
A UNB team impressed the crowd and judges alike to clinch top spot in the graduate track at the 7th annual CIBC Business Plan Competition, held November 25-27. Another UNB team also claimed second place in the undergraduate track. UNB BBA students, Robert Keleher and Simon Pearn took home the top prize for their business plan, ARC Technology. ARC Technology is a company in the process of patenting a piece of paving equipment capable of combining the three pieces of equipment currently being...
National Small Business Week recognized at UNB
Liz Lemon-Mitchell
Posted: October 29, 2008 5:00:00 AM ADT
Category: IBEC
UNB's International Business and Entrepreneurship Centre (IBEC) combined National Small Business Week (October 19 - 24) with its visiting scholar series by bringing Dr. Reg Litz, from the I. H. Asper School of Business at the University of Manitoba. A professor of entrepreneurship with research and teaching interests in small business, family enterprise and business ethics, Dr. Litz facilitated two research sessions for UNB students and faculty. The first session was entitled "Kitty Hawk in...
UNB Students win Canada s largest business plan competition
Liz Lemon-Mitchell
Posted: May 1, 2008 5:00:00 AM ADT
Category: IBEC
Three Faculty of Business Administration students, Edgar Gallibois, Justin Murray and Matthew Corey, won the Enterprise 2008 Business Plan Competition run by the Business Development Bank of Canada. The competition is the largest business plan competition in Canada, and this is the second consecutive year that winners of the regional qualifying competition, Enterprise Atlantic, have claimed top spot in the nation. Gallibois, Murray, and Corey represented UNB as VerifyRX and defeated 11 other...
IBEC Visiting Scholar Series features Dr Nikhil Varaiya
Liz Lemon-Mitchell
Posted: April 11, 2008 5:00:00 AM ADT
Category: IBEC
Dr. Nikhil Varaiya, the famed entrepreneurship professor from San Diego State University, made an appearance at UNB last week as part of the International Business and Entrepreneurship Centre's Visiting Scholar's Series. Chairman of the Department of Finance of San Diego State's College of Business Administration, Varaiya has won numerous awards for his research into corporate finance and was at UNB to present a lecture entitled 'Teaching Entrepreneurial Finance.' Focusing on such topics as...