Ideas with Impact
UNB Faculty of Management
McCain Foods is shaping the future of business leaders through UNB's speaker series
Faculty of Management
Posted: October 3, 2024 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Programs
The faculty of management at the University of New Brunswick (UNB) has long championed experiential learning as a vital part of its business curriculum. Central to this is the annual Speaker Series, an event designed to connect students with real-world professionals, entrepreneurs and business leaders. Since 2016, this series has introduced over 160 industry experts, providing a platform for the exchange of knowledge, career advice and networking. This year, for the second time in a row, the...
From Delhi to UNB: How this MBA grad is helping to build skills across the province
Faculty of Management
Posted: January 19, 2024 12:00:00 AM AST
Category: Programs , Alumni , Students
Photo: As a student and new graduate of UNB’s MBA, Sahil Mehta (MBA '23) helped implement the McKenna Institute-IBM SkillsBuild program across New Brunswick. In the heart of New Brunswick, UNB MBA alumnus Sahil Mehta (MBA '23) stands as a beacon for residents aspiring to advance their careers. His message to everyone is to seize the transformative power of the IBM SkillsBuild platform. Imagine a realm where aspirations meet opportunities: IBM SkillsBuild makes this vision a reality by...
Unlocking success: The impact of case writing in accounting at UNB’s Faculty of Management
Faculty of Management
Posted: January 18, 2024 12:00:00 AM AST
Photo: Professor Suzanne Tucker developed a Case Writing in Accounting course that teaches students how to start thinking and communicating like professionals and prepare them to enter the CPA PEP. Meet Colin Cossaboom, a determined individual on the path to obtaining his CPA designation. As he successfully completed the challenges of the first module in the CPA Professional Education Program (PEP), he took a moment to express gratitude to his former accounting professor, Suzanne Tucker. Why?...
Discovering the venture capitalist within
Faculty of Management
Posted: December 21, 2023 12:00:00 AM AST
Category: Students , Alumni , Programs
The University of New Brunswick's faculty of management proudly welcomed the Canadian Venture Capital & Private Equity Association (CVCA) in its inaugural stop for the CVCA University Tour this year. This exciting event, held on Sept. 25, 2023, in collaboration with the UNB International Business & Entrepreneurship Centre (IBEC), proved to be an insightful experience for the 50 participating students. Students came from diverse backgrounds and a variety of different academic programs at UNB....
Unleashing data superpowers at UNB’s Data Challenge
Faculty of Management
Posted: December 18, 2023 12:00:00 AM AST
Armed with raw data and intellectual prowess, teams of students from across Canada converged virtually in November for the annual Data Challenge hosted by the University of New Brunswick. Coordinated by the International Business and Entrepreneurship Centre (IBEC) within UNB's faculty of management, this event showcased the power of data in addressing a spectrum of business and social challenges like the impact of Covid-19, extreme weather and climate change, local issues and health care. The...
From banking to leadership: Mabel George's inspiring MBA journey
Faculty of Management
Posted: October 25, 2023 12:00:00 AM ADT
Mabel George grew up in Lagos State, Nigeria, in West Africa, where she completed a degree in business. She enjoyed a career in commercial and retail banking, helping people reach their financial goals. A few years ago, she began contemplating pursuing an MBA and expanding her network. That's when she decided to enroll in UNB's Faculty of Management. After a demanding first year of coursework, she was eager for something different. It was then that she accepted an internship that not only...
Navigating the future of finance: Dr. Joseph DeCoste and UNB's Student Investment Fund
Faculty of Management
Posted: October 25, 2023 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Faculty Highlights , Programs , Student Investment Fund
The University of New Brunswick’s Student Investment Fund (SIF) course has a new dedicated instructor, Dr. Joseph DeCoste, who joined the faculty of management in 2022 and is a member of the finance area. The SIF course seamlessly combines the study path for the CFA Level One exam with hands-on investment experience. Its inception dates back to 1998 when industry partner Vestcor entrusted students with the oversight of a $1 million pension fund, allowing them to gain firsthand...
Celebrating UNB’s 194th Encaenia
Faculty of Management
Posted: May 30, 2023 12:00:00 AM ADT
The faculty of management celebrated UNB’s 194th Encaenia May 17 by welcoming 65 graduates of the Master of Business Administration program and 134 graduates of the Bachelor of Business Administration into the family of over 97,000 UNB alumni around the world. At its annual Encaenia Awards Reception, Dean Devashis Mitra welcomed graduates and their family members, faculty, and staff who gathered one last time to celebrate the day, recognize award recipients, and say goodbye to many of...
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 platform for upcoming designers to tackle fast fashion waste due to overproduction. On...
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 with community stakeholders through the course, which is now required by all students in their third...
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
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 graduate level in business schools. UNB is working with counterparts across Atlantic Canada, as well as...
UNB'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 stay in the province after graduating but have to leave if they can’t find employment....
UNB’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 the faculty of management. “Management analytic skills are thus becoming critical for...
UNB 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 help the company increase market penetration of Peterbilt electric trucks in Eastern Canada. These...
At 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 that is helping children learn math and have fun while they’re doing it.Ben McFarlane (BA'94)...
One 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 adversarial attacks. UNB’s faculty of management offers Venture Assessment in partnership with...
One 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 , Student Highlights , Students
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 adversarial attacks. UNB’s faculty of management offers Venture Assessment in partnership with...
Launching, 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 set students bring to the work force.When the faculty launched this area of specialization in 2008...
Students earn huge returns in UNB’s Venture Assessment course
Liz Lemon-Mitchell
Posted: August 28, 2020 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Students , Programs , Alumni
There is a reason students describe UNB’s Venture Assessment course as “the epitome of experiential learning.” Students in this full-term course experience the world of venture capital first hand by learning how to analyse real start-ups for real cash investments; they test their knowledge on the national level by competing against other students across Canada in the Venture Capital Investment Competition (VCIC), hosted by Saint Mary’s University (UNB’s students...
Living an entrepreneur’s life at UNB
Ideas with Impact
Posted: August 26, 2020 12:00:00 AM ADT
Dustin Taylor and Faraz Khan didn’t want to wait until finishing the BBA program to start running their own businesses. Thanks to the Student Works Management Program, they don’t have to. Both students pursued an opportunity through this program to run their own franchises, and even employ other students, whilst earning a Co-op credit through UNB’s Faculty of Management. Taylor is running a painting franchise for his second summer in a row, while Khan is running his own...
COVID-19 didn’t postpone this student’s career
Liz Lemon-Mitchell
Posted: May 26, 2020 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Students , Student Highlights , Programs
Unlike many graduating students who have had to postpone their career plans because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Dennis Effah, a student in UNB’s Master in Quantitative Investment Management (MQIM) program, has just landed a full-time position with Vestcor. In addition to having well-trained investors, successful investment firms like Vestcor require employees who also have a strong understanding of accounting principles and regulations. Thanks to his former education, work experience and...
Stay calm and pivot: a lesson in project management
Liz Lemon-Mitchell
Posted: May 25, 2020 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Programs , Students , Student Highlights
An experiential learning project took an interesting turn for UNB’s MBA students taking Project Management this year. Taught by Dr. Alireza Tajbakhsh in the faculty of management, the course teaches students the basics of managing projects and has them work on a class project with a local organization to practice what they learn. Students had only just launched a fundraising project they were doing with the Fredericton Community Kitchens when the COVID-19 pandemic happened. As a result...
Risk and portfolio management: experiential learning in times of COVID-19
Liz Lemon-Mitchell
Posted: May 5, 2020 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Students , Faculty Highlights , Programs , Student Highlights
It may have been one of the strangest and most challenging semesters at UNB because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but the winter 2020 term ended with some good news for students in the Master in Quantitative Investment Management (MQIM) program. Just as exams were ending, they learned two of their teams placed high in two global competitions. One team tied with another at Rutgers for third place out of 58 universities in the MATLAB competition, hosted by the Professional Risk Managers’...
UNB venture assessment students pass the test with top prize!
Liz Lemon-Mitchell
Posted: March 27, 2020 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Programs , Students , Student Highlights
Working with the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation (NBIF) to learn how to assess ventures for startup funding has paid off for a group of entrepreneurship students at UNB’s faculty of management. Students in the Venture Assessment course just won the top prize in the graduate category of the Venture Capital Investment Competition (VCIC), beating teams from across the country. Hosted on March 6 by Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the VCIC put students in the role...
Putting knowledge into action: venture capitalists in the making with NBIF
Liz Lemon-Mitchell
Posted: March 3, 2020 12:00:00 AM AST
Category: Students , Programs , Student Highlights
Since last fall a group of UNB students have been working side-by-side with staff at the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation (NBIF) to master the tools of venture capitalism. In the next few days they will be putting their knowledge to the test as they join other students from across Canada to compete in the Venture Capital Investment Competition (VCIC) hosted by Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. NBIF is sponsoring their trip.Most of these students are completing the...
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...
Executive-in-Residence Program Brings Real-Life Challenges to the Classroom
Liz Lemon-Mitchell
Posted: February 5, 2020 12:00:00 AM AST
Category: Students , Alumni , Programs
Business professors in UNB’s faculty of management often assign case studies in their courses to challenge students to think of how they would use their knowledge and skills to solve business problems. This year, students taking the Strategic Management and Student Investment Fund classes were assigned two Harvard Business Case Studies, OTE: Managing in Times of Crisis (Parts A and B), about the challenges faced by Michael Tsamaz when he became Chair and CEO of the Hellenic...
Real-World Project with Non-Profit Ignites a Passion for Strategic Planning
Jane Landry
Posted: February 4, 2020 12:00:00 AM AST
Last term, students in the fourth-year BBA Strategic Management course in UNB’s Faculty of Management put on their consulting hats to offer strategy recommendations to a local non-profit organization. After completing an in-depth SWOT analysis for the New Brunswick Association for Community Living (NBACL), they provided insights and strategic actions to strengthen a crucial revenue generating program. NBACL works on behalf of children and adults with an intellectual disability and their...
UNB Fredericton signs accreditations with CPHR NB
UNB Faculty of Management and CPHRNB
Posted: November 4, 2019 12:00:00 AM AST
Category: Programs
Business students focusing their study on human resources management at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton have a more direct path to obtaining the Chartered Professionals in Human Resources designation. The University's faculty of management reached an agreement with CPHR New Brunswick to provide accreditation of its Bachelor of Business Administration with a Major in Human Resources Management and the Certificate in Applied Human Resources Management programs on the Fredericton...
Finding clients and keeping them: advice from an expert
Liz Lemon-Mitchell
Posted: October 8, 2019 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Alumni Highlights , Programs , Alumni
When they graduate with business degrees, students bring specialized knowledge and technical skills to the workplace. For those starting careers in the finance and investment industry, one of the biggest challenges they will face is finding new clients and keeping them. This week, finance students got advice from an expert on how to identify who their clients were and how to communicate effectively with them. Paul Owens (BBA '72), Deputy Superintendent of Pensions for the Government of...
Industry Expert to Pass on Knowledge and Connections to SIF students
Liz Lemon-Mitchell
Posted: September 6, 2019 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Faculty , Programs , Student Investment Fund
Finance students in the faculty of management at the University of New Brunswick will have access to a wealth of industry experience and professional connections with the new director of the Centre for Financial Studies, Don Wishart. Wishart is president of Seamark Asset Management Ltd., a Halifax based investment management firm, and brings 25 years of investment management experience to the position. Before beginning his position as director earlier this year, Wishart had been involved with...
Credits for sales: a win-win with experiential learning
Liz Lemon-Mitchell
Posted: July 15, 2019 12:00:00 AM ADT
Based in Moncton, NB, Malley Industries has been manufacturing ambulances, wheelchair accessible vehicles, plastic products and specialized commercial fleets for a wide range of clients since 1979. It is one of the largest adaptive mobility manufacturers in Canada, and this spring a group of BBA students in UNB’s Faculty of Management worked with Malley Industries on two consulting projects to help them identify new markets. When he heard their recommendations at the end of the course,...
Learning the benefits of quantitative investment methods first hand
Liz Lemon-Mitchell
Posted: July 3, 2019 12:00:00 AM ADT
A team of five students enrolled in UNB’s new Master in Quantitative Investment Management (MQIM) program learned the benefits of using quantitative and data rich methods first hand this year by competing in the global Chicago Quantitative Alliance (CQA) Investment Challenge. The team, which included Huang Xu, Jiaji (Justin) Feng, Justin Arsenault, Lowry Zhu and Joseph MacCallum, used the quantitative investment tools they learned in their courses to manage a portfolio and placed 6th...
Charles Fraser establishes new student venture fund at UNB
Alumni News
Posted: February 27, 2019 12:00:00 AM AST
Category: Alumni Highlights , Programs , Alumni
The faculty of business administration at UNB Fredericton has a new investment fund program thanks to Charles 'Chuck' Fraser (BBA’68).The retired wealth manager returned to UNB to celebrate his 50th reunion at Homecoming 2018. After visiting with dean of business administration, Dev Mitra, and meeting fourth-year BBA student Herbert Bempah, he was intrigued with the faculty’s strengths in entrepreneurship and finance and wondered how he could give back to the university that...
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...
UNB launches Canada's only Master of Quantitative Investment Management program
Ideas with Impact
Posted: September 7, 2017 5:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Programs
What happens when you combine innovative finance courses with cutting-edge tools in applied mathematics, statistics and computer programming? You’re ready to launch a career in quantitative investing, one of the fastest-growing and most in-demand fields in the investment landscape today. Starting in August 2018, the faculty of business administration at the University of New Brunswick’s Fredericton campus is ready to offer the opportunity to acquire these high value quantitative...
Planning real world export strategies
Ideas with Impact
Posted: June 6, 2017 5:00:00 AM ADT
A group of UNB business students on the Fredericton campus stepped into the roles of consultants last winter as they worked with local businesses and entrepreneurs interested in exporting. The students were members of the Export Market Entry course taught by marketing professor, Dr. Stephen Grant, and as they learned the theory of export marketing, they applied it directly to export plans for their partnering companies. The Export Market Entry course has been taught many times in the past...
A lasting legacy for all MBA students
Ideas with Impact
Posted: May 11, 2017 5:00:00 AM ADT
Starting next year, a new scholarship will be awarded annually to an MBA student on the University of New Brunswick Fredericton campus who embodies the values that the MBA program has come to represent: diversity, community involvement, social entrepreneurship and leadership. The “MBA Community Leadership Award” was established this year by students in the Professional Development (PD) class as a social entrepreneurship project involving all members of the class. The project...
Location theory up close field trip to DP World
Ideas with Impact
Posted: May 11, 2017 5:00:00 AM ADT
In the location theory course taught by Dr. H. A. Eiselt in UNB’s Faculty of Business Administration students learn where to site such things as warehouses, gas stations, fast food restaurants, coast guard vessels, and other entities. As part of the logistics concentration in the BBA program, the course teaches students how to do this by learning optimal location theories and then applying them to different industries. This winter, Eiselt added an experiential component to the learning...
Mining the Data stories with real world impact
Ideas with Impact
Posted: March 1, 2017 4:00:00 AM AST
People across the province experienced first hand a thrilling demonstration of what can happen when governments invite the participation of citizens through open data. They were part of the National Open Data Visualization Challenge that was hosted by UNB’s Faculty of Business Administration and the New Brunswick Social Policy Research Network as part of the 2016 Gov Maker Conference held in Fredericton last November. Teams from across Canada were invited to use their creativity...
Meeting the real Wolves of Wall Street field trip to NYC
Ideas with Impact
Posted: February 28, 2017 4:00:00 AM AST
A group of University of New Brunswick students focusing their studies in finance, had the educational trip of a lifetime earlier this term, when they travelled to New York City and visited the trading floors on Wall Street. The group included PHD.FOR student Saul Hernandez, fourth year BBA students Randy Crealock, Caitlyn Gallant and Brandon Perry, as well as second year MBA students Samira Alavi and Omasan Atsiangbe, all members of the Student Investment Fund (SIF) class. They were...
Celebrating entrepreneurship with stories from the trenches
Ideas with Impact
Posted: January 13, 2017 4:00:00 AM AST
Category: Programs
Networking with experienced entrepreneurs is a great way for business students to understand how the entrepreneurial theories they’ve learned about play out in the real world. Many students admit to feeling shy and awkward about attending networking events, however; they’re not sure what to say sometimes and are afraid of looking unprofessional. This year, UNB’s International Business and Entrepreneurship Centre (IBEC) started its entrepreneurship speaker series to give...
Business student's hunch yields generous returns
Ideas with Impact
Posted: January 12, 2017 4:00:00 AM AST
November is the time of year when university students start focusing on their final term papers and getting ready for final exams. This past November, BBA students at the University of New Brunswick Fredericton campus devoted a lot of their time and energy orchestrating a food drive for Greener Village Food bank, a collective that operates on the north side of Fredericton. The project was spearheaded by Meghan Harper, a 4th year BBA student who worked with members of the Business...
A study adventure in Berlin
Ideas with Impact
Posted: January 4, 2017 4:00:00 AM AST
September at the University of New Brunswick brings the arrival of new students and return of former students and one of the most common questions you hear around campus is, “What did you do for the summer?” This year, third BBA student Natasha Youssef has a very interesting reply to that question, because she started her summer off with an adventure in Berlin. She travelled there with 25 other students, along with a couple of professors to participate in UNB’s travel study...
Fighting Fears with Toastmasters International
Ideas with Impact
Posted: June 6, 2016 5:00:00 AM ADT
Do you suffer from glossophobia, the fear of public speaking? If you do, you're not alone. It's ranked among the top fears of people all over the world, along with the fear of spiders, snakes and even death. Though fear of public speaking is common, it’s something people aiming for leadership roles have to overcome. Thanks to a Toastmasters International program introduced into the MBA professional development class this year, students in UNB Fredericton’s MBA program not only got...
UNB's Finance Club Making Stocks Simple
Ideas with Impact
Posted: June 2, 2016 5:00:00 AM ADT
Some viewers might feel a little lost when watching movies about the world of finance like the recent Wolf of Wall Street or The Big Short, but students in UNB’s student Finance Club don’t; even those who don’t have a background in finance or business. Those foreign sounding terms, the colours changing red to green to red, and the intricacies of the housing bubble are all familiar to them. UNB’s Finance club has been around for a few years and is open to anyone...
Future ready with real-world learning
Ideas with Impact
Posted: May 30, 2016 5:00:00 AM ADT
One of the biggest challenges students face when they graduate from university and start applying for work is lack of experience. To help them meet this challenge, many business professors at UNB Fredericton include experiential projects in their courses to help students gain relevant experience and understand how business theory plays out in the real world. This past winter Dr. Hsin-Chen Lin, a professor of marketing with the faculty of business administration, teamed students in her ...
There and back again: An entrepreneur's tale of discovery
Ideas with Impact
Posted: May 30, 2016 5:00:00 AM ADT
Two UNB Fredericton MBA students headed to Los Angeles, California, last December to learn about drones and to find out if a business they’re trying to launch is practicable. Not only did they find answers to their questions about start-ups, they experienced first-hand what most students only read about in their textbooks. Starting point – a great idea Anne Marie Rolfe and Andrew Lockhart are both completing the MBA with concentration in entrepreneurship in the faculty of...
Official Thumbs Up for UNB Fredericton's BBA Co-op
Ideas with Impact
Posted: April 6, 2016 5:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Faculty , Programs , Students
UNB Fredericton’s BBA co-operative education program has been running for over 16 years, providing students with the opportunity to combine paid work experience with their coursework. The program has been highly regarded by both students and employers, and has just been accredited by the Canadian Association for Co-operative Education (CAFCE). CAFCE is the voice for post-secondary co-op programs in Canada, setting the standards for what defines a co-operative educational...
Split Second Training Services - Saving Lives in a Split Second
Ideas with Impact
Posted: February 26, 2016 4:00:00 AM AST
Category: Alumni , Programs , Students
Ensuring that police officers have the right skills and competencies to deal with public threats and attacks is a critical aspect of training and officers need up-to-date training in this area now more than ever. But with the high price of advanced training and increased financial pressure on police departments across North America, the training that officers require is not always accessible or affordable. Split Second Training Systems, a new training software program developed by a graduate...
A road trip down the Branding Highway
Ideas with Impact
Posted: February 24, 2016 4:00:00 AM AST
No matter what type of business you’re in, the competition is never far. How to stand out in the market place is one of the biggest challenges businesses and marketers face, and one that often comes with a high price tag. Students and guests of UNB Fredericton’s MBA Professional Development class gained some valuable, if unconventional, knowledge on how to use branding to make their businesses stand out in a crowded market place by taking a trip down “The Branding...
More than a Competition: APEX helps creativity thrive
Ideas with Impact
Posted: February 24, 2016 4:00:00 AM AST
Year after year, aspiring entrepreneurs from all across Canada come together for the BMO Financial Group APEX Business Plan Competition. This year was no exception, with teams presenting innovative business ideas and forming valuable connections in an environment where creativity thrives. The competition ran this year from January 20-22 at UNB’s Wu Conference Center. Teams competed in an array of events at either the undergraduate or graduate level. Well-established entrepreneurs...
ReadyPass: Helping You Trust the Bus
Ideas with Impact
Posted: February 24, 2016 4:00:00 AM AST
In many places, taking the bus can often seem harder than quantum physics. The maps are confusing, and it’s hard to tell if the bus has already gone by and you’ve missed it, or if it’s running late and you should wait a few minutes longer. Life can be hectic, and no one wants to wait around outside, especially during our frigid Canadian winters, waiting for the bus. Thankfully, some students at UNB and their invention, ReadyPass, have a solution to all these problems and...
Harvesting Global Markets: business students lend their knowledge to Resson Aerospace
Ideas with Impact
Posted: May 26, 2015 5:00:00 AM ADT
This winter fourth year business students at the University of New Brunswick Fredericton had to apply just about everything they’ve learned in the BBA program by working with one of New Brunswick’s most innovative new companies, Resson Aerospace Corporation. Using advanced technologies such as drones, high-resolution cameras, cloud computing and their own proprietary algorithms, Resson Aerospace works with large agricultural companies to measure crop health and identify crop...
What Exactly is HR Learning from practitioners?
Ideas with Impact
Posted: May 22, 2015 5:00:00 AM ADT
Designing jobs that align with a company’s strategic mission, recruiting the right people to fill them, and then training and retaining them are just a few critical aspects of the human resources management profession. Business students at the University of New Brunswick Fredericton who are interested in careers in HR management have the opportunity to learn from practitioners about the finer details of the profession thanks to the Human Resources Student Association (HRSA)...
A Visit to the Oracle: SIF Students join Berkshire Hatheway Shareholders for 50th Anniversary
Ideas with Impact
Posted: May 21, 2015 5:00:00 AM ADT
The school year ended with a bang for Student Investment Fund (SIF) students Jeff Mott, and Ryan Chan, when they traveled to Omaha, Nebraska, at the beginning of May to attend the Berkshire Hatheway 50th Anniversary shareholders annual general meeting. There, they were able to join the tens of thousands of delegates who make the annual pilgrimage to this event to meet and listen to the legendary chair of Berkshire Hatheway, the “oracle of Omaha”, Warren Buffett. Dubbed the...
What have UNB's MBA Professional Development Students Been Up To?
Ideas with Impact
Posted: May 1, 2015 5:00:00 AM ADT
The University of New Brunswick Fredericton’s MBA Professional Development class meets every Friday. Students work with a different industry leader every week to learn about important business issues and to develop important professional skills. They also meet with community leaders and social innovators who are helping to solve some of the problems in our community. Every year the class works with a different non-profit organization to share their business knowledge and entrepreneurial...
UNB Student Investment Fund Team Second in the World
Ideas with Impact
Posted: March 31, 2015 5:00:00 AM ADT
A team of UNB’s Student Investment Fund students placed second in the 2015 Argus University Challenge. Argus is the industry leading software for real estate investment analysis and data-driven decision-making. The team members Daniel Slipp, Jeff Mott (both MBA candidates) and Josh Bubar (a BBA student) modelled various financial scenarios for a distressed real estate portfolio. The three-building portfolio contained office, retail and industrial buildings that were located...
Among the Best: SIF Team Nails Global Small Cap Competition
Ideas with Impact
Posted: March 26, 2015 5:00:00 AM ADT
A team made up of UNB Fredericton’s Student Investment Fund students finished top of the table at the Van Berkom Small Cap Case Competition hosted by the John Molson School of Business at Concordia in Montreal March 20-21. The prestigious two-day competition sponsored by Van Berkom Associates challenged students with a live case analyzing actual companies. Universities participating included the University of Toronto (Rotman), Western University (Ivey), Queen’s, Simon Fraser...
A Peek inside the World of Venture Capital
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Posted: March 25, 2015 5:00:00 AM ADT
Most startups are inherently risky, which is why ventures have such a hard time taking off. But what if you could look at them through the eyes of an investor, see beyond their risk and identify the real opportunities? UNB Fredericton's faculty of business administration MBA and BBA students are learning exactly how to do this through a new course called "Venture Assessment" offered this winter The course is being taught in partnership with the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation (NBIF), who,...
APEX - Just Do It
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Posted: March 25, 2015 5:00:00 AM ADT
The BMO Financial Group APEX Business Plan Competition is a very special time of year at UNB Fredericton. When the event took place this year January 21 – 23, the air was filled with energy as the most entrepreneurial minds from universities across the country came together to compete head to head. After completing a practice round with feedback from the judges and filming an elevator pitch, the teams took the stage with their final presentations. Approximately $19,000 was awarded...
CEO for a Day
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Posted: March 25, 2015 5:00:00 AM ADT
Fourth year BBA students at UNB Fredericton got to experience a day in the life of a CEO this term. Competitive Strategy is the capstone course of the BBA program, which most students complete in their final year, and this term students participated in a half-day long assessment session that put them into leadership positions with a hypothetical organization where they had to make critical decisions and take action. All along they were being observed and their behavior judged.Essentially, the...
Tooling Up with some Entrepreneurial Basics
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Posted: March 25, 2015 5:00:00 AM ADT
Twenty-five retiring or newly retired military personnel transitioning from military careers to civilian life took part in a day of workshops last November facilitated by students with UNB Fredericton’s International Business and Entrepreneurship Centre (IBEC). This kind of transition can be challenging, but gaining some business basics and learning about the current challenges and opportunities in the business world can be a big help to those who are interested in launching...
From Community to Competitions: A Primer for Life
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Posted: February 3, 2015 4:00:00 AM AST
While she was growing up in Hamburg Germany, Laura-Sophia Neunzig always dreamed of going abroad and experiencing life in another part of the world. That dream brought her to Fredericton, New Brunswick last fall to study business at UNB’s faculty of business administration. As a student at the European Media and Business Academy (EMBA) in Hamburg, Laura-Sophia was the first student to come here as part of an exchange agreement the faculty signed with that institution last year.Before...
Return on investment for UNB
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Posted: February 3, 2015 4:00:00 AM AST
When UNB staff member David Shipley began his studies with the Master of Business Administration (MBA) program at UNB Fredericton, he had no idea how much both he and the university would benefit. “I love it when I can tell friends, family and acquaintances that studying for my MBA helped save the University of New Brunswick nearly $500,000,” he says. That’s the amount UNB will save over the next three years as a result of a comprehensive overhaul of its mobile device...
Social Media Legend speaks to MBA Class
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Posted: December 11, 2014 4:00:00 AM AST
Category: Programs
Dave Carroll never expected to change the nature of customer service, public relations and brand management when he sought compensation for a guitar destroyed by a careless airline baggage handler. But when Carroll fulfilled a promise to United to post a music video on his ordeal to YouTube, that’s exactly what happened. Carroll’s modern digital David and Goliath tale over a beloved Taylor guitar damaged by United Airlines marked the start of a shift in control of brands and...