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...
A stellar year at UNB for Austen Keating
Faculty of Management
Posted: May 29, 2024 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Student Highlights
Austen Keating, forward player on the University of New Brunswick’s (UNB) Red’s Men’s Hockey team, had a stellar year at UNB. In addition to his team capturing the U Sports men's hockey national championship, Keating received two of the highest accolades for university hockey players: the Mark Jeffrey Memorial Merit Award and the Atlantic University Sport (AUS) Most Valuable Player (MVP). The Mark Jeffrey Memorial Merit Award is named after a former player for the UNB Red...
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...
Faculty 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 students attending Atlantic universities are eligible for consideration. Deans of the business schools at...
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 ethical decision-making offered by the CFA Institute. After completing the course this year, the SIF...
New UNB mom among top business students in Atlantic Canada
Faculty of Management
Posted: April 19, 2021 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Students , Student Highlights
One of UNB’s newest moms has just received one of Atlantic Canada’s most prestigious awards for business students. Just days before delivering a baby boy, Stephanie Mallet of Moncton, NB, learned that she is one of nine students in Atlantic Canada to receive the 2021 Frank H. Sobey Award for Excellence in Business Studies worth $30,000. Candidates of this award are selected by the Frank H. Sobey Awards Board of Trustees comprised of Atlantic Canadian business and academic leaders....
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...
Recovering in the midst of COVID-19: UNB business students work with NB businesses
Liz Lemon-Mitchell
Posted: September 10, 2020 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Student Highlights , Students
Implementing online orders and curb-side pickups, dealing with increased order volumes, changing entire business processes: these are only some of the challenges businesses have struggled with over the summer months as they had to quickly adapt to the ever-changing environment with COVID-19. Some of the brightest and most talented students at the University of New Brunswick worked with New Brunswick businesses over the summer months to help them recover from the pandemic. It was a classic...
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...
Business Student Receives 10 000 Scholarship
Liz Lemon-Mitchell
Posted: July 12, 2011 5:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Student Highlights
Tim Frazer, a second year master of business administration student at UNB Fredericton, was one of six business students studying at an Atlantic Canadian university to receive $10,000 as a recipient of the 2010 Frank H. Sobey Awards for Excellence in Business Studies. "Year after year, it is inspiring to see the recipients of the Frank H. Sobeys Awards for Excellence in Business Studies continue to demonstrate dedication, entrepreneurial spirit and commitment to not only succeed, but excel as...
Business Student Receives 5 000 Scholarship and Trip to Toronto
Liz Lemon-Mitchell
Posted: July 12, 2011 5:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Student Highlights
Kyle McDowell, a fourth-year bachelor of business administration student at UNB Fredericton, was one of ten business students across the country to receive $5,000 as a recipient of the 2010 Futures Fund Scholarship. Canada's Outstanding CEO of the Year established the Futures Fund Scholarship for Outstanding Leadership to honour and mentor Canadian university business students each year who have demonstrated exemplary leadership in their academic and extra-curricular initiatives. The award...
Road to the NHL - A Dream Come True
Liz Lemon-Mitchell
Posted: July 12, 2011 5:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Student Highlights
Getting on the ice in front of a sold-out 19,000 capacity crowd cheering at the top of their lungs is "a dream come true," for second year BBA student Darryl Boyce. Now playing on the Toronto Maple Leafs as an unrestricted free agent, Boyce is still not used to the spot-light. "There is definitely a rush every time I go on the ice," explained Boyce. "I grew up watching Saturday night hockey, and now I'm the one on the ice actually playing. It is an exhilarating feeling." Making it to the...
What would you say
Liz Lemon-Mitchell
Posted: July 12, 2011 5:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Student Highlights
Imagine having a debilitating disorder that prevents you from standing, walking, eating, communicating, and sometimes even breathing. That is what the estimated 50,000+ Canadians living with neuromuscular disorders have to live with each and every day. Muscular dystrophy is just one such disorder. Muscular Dystrophy Canada (MDC) is a not-for-profit organization that provides help and support for those Canadians living with neuromuscular disorders. Over time, persons with...
Faculty of Business Administration celebrates UNB s 181st Encaenia
Liz Lemon-Mitchell
Posted: July 14, 2010 5:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Student Highlights
With the sun shining outside and the temperature in the upper teens the Faculty of Business Administration celebrated UNB’s 181st Encaenia with a reception and awards ceremony to honour the accomplishments of this year’s graduating class. Of the class of 2010, 131 students graduated with BBA degrees and 16 students graduated from the MBA program. On the international front 49 students graduated from the BBA program in Trinidad and Tobago along with seven students from the BBA program in...
Looking into the world of Human Resources
Liz Lemon-Mitchell
Posted: July 14, 2010 5:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Student Highlights
Students at UNB finally have the opportunity to get involved with the Human Resources (HR) community, while in University. The Human Resource Student Association (HRSA) began last year and has been steadily growing in size and popularity. The HRSA puts on numerous events throughout the year with the goal of showing students what they can expect from a career in HR. Since the society’s inception, attendance and involvement in Human Resources New Brunswick sessions have increased. There is...
MBA Professional Development Class Learns the Value of Community Spirit
Liz Lemon-Mitchell
Posted: July 14, 2010 5:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Student Highlights
Fredericton has always been a great city to live in. The people are friendly and everyone tries to work together for the good of the community, so it’s no wonder Fredericton has one of the highest volunteer rates per capita in the country. Current MBA students are learning just how valuable community spirit is, by getting involved with local charity organizations. As part of the Professional Development course, students participated in not one, but two charity fundraisers this year and...
Real Business Real Learning Real Growth
Liz Lemon-Mitchell
Posted: July 14, 2010 5:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Student Highlights
Did you ever have the chance to compete against students from other universities and win money in your classes? Not many people can say they have, but that is starting to change. Students were excited to take part in the new IT and Supply Chain Management course offered this year. It is the first time the fourth-year course has been offered in Fredericton. The course teaches students the ins and outs of supply chain management and combines classroom theory with practical application. It is...
Students Gaining the Experience They Need
Liz Lemon-Mitchell
Posted: July 14, 2010 5:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Student Highlights
Students only have an idea of what working in the real world is like, we don’t know for sure until we try it. Like most students, Jarett Nickerson wanted to get real work experience in his chosen career path and make sure it is something he enjoys doing, before he graduates. Jarett, a third year business student, is looking to earn his BBA degree with a major in marketing. He is currently working an 8-month co-op placement with a Saint John based company called Mariner. They provide products...
UNB Business Students Have Success at the University of Waterloo Accounting Conference
Liz Lemon-Mitchell
Posted: July 14, 2010 5:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Student Highlights
It was a long journey, but well worth it as three students made a name for themselves and for the University of New Brunswick (UNB) at the recent University of Waterloo Accounting Conference (UWAC). Graduating student Jonathan Smith and second year accounting students Dino Bernard and Christopher Ross represented UNB at the conference. UWAC is a three day conference which brings together business students from across Canada to listen to guest speakers, participate in dynamic workshops and...
UNB Students Canada s Next Top Ad Executives
Liz Lemon-Mitchell
Posted: April 6, 2009 5:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Student Highlights
Two of Canada's next top ad executives are students at the University of New Brunswick. Elizabeth McCleave and Matieu Daigle, students in the master of business administration (MBA) program at UNB Fredericton have won Volkswagon's national marketing competition, beating out teams from universities across Canada. The students will each receive a new Volkswagon Golf and will be offered internships with ad agencies for winning the competition, Canada's Next Top Ad Executive. A second team of UNB...
UNB Entrepreneurs Win Big Prizes at NBIF Breakthru Competition
Liz Lemon-Mitchell
Posted: April 2, 2009 5:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Student Highlights
UNB's Activator team, "KnowCharge" won the silver prize of $60,000 in investment equity and in kind services at the New Brunswick Innovation Fund (NBIF) Breakthru competition held on March 25, 2009. The company, made up of team leader, Chris Marshall and MBA teammates Rob Morrow and Edgar Gallibois, was formed through the Activator program, which is coordinated by UNB's International Business and Entrepreneurship Centre (IBEC). KnowCharge produces a special conductive paper that, when used as...
Corporate Social Responsibility a Major Theme for MBA Students this Term
Liz Lemon-Mitchell
Posted: March 22, 2009 5:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Student Highlights
The huge global economic crisis is making Corporate Social Responsibility all the more important in today's business world. With industries needing to be bailed out by the government, people need to be assured that their tax dollars are being spent properly. Here at UNB, students in the new MBA Professional Development program are being taught to think about more than just the bottom line. Students helped contribute to the over $19,000 raised by the Fredericton community for the Canadian...
Four UNB Business Students are Top Ten Finalists to Face the Fear in Canada s Next Top Ad Executive Competition
Liz Lemon-Mitchell
Posted: March 13, 2009 5:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Student Highlights
Two teams of UNB Fredericton business administration students have been selected to be among the top ten finalists in Canada's Next Top Ad Executive "Face the Fear" Competition, taking place in Toronto March 30-April 1. Volkswagen Canada, the leading sponsor of the competition, is the client; the student teams are the ad executives who must develop a marketing plan to promote the new Volkswagen Routan. The best campaign wins. Mitchell Bernard and Laura Noseworthy, both BBA students in their...
10 000 Awarded to UNB Student for Excellence in Business Studies
Liz Lemon-Mitchell
Posted: March 9, 2009 5:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Student Highlights
Thor Jenson, a fourth year bachelor of business administration student at UNB Fredericton, was one of six business students studying at an Atlantic Canadian university to receive $10,000 last week as a recipient of the 2009 Frank H. Sobey Awards for Excellence in Business Studies. Year after year, it is inspiring to see the recipients of the Frank H. Sobeys Awards for Excellence in Business Studies continue to demonstrate dedication, entrepreneurial spirit and commitment to not only succeed,...
New MBA with Concentration in Entrepreneurship Approved for UNB Fredericton
Liz Lemon-Mitchell
Posted: November 4, 2008 4:00:00 AM AST
Category: Student Highlights
Students completing an MBA at UNB Fredericton's Faculty of Business Administration now have an option to complete a concentration in entrepreneurship as part of their degree. The MBA with concentration in entrepreneurship has just received approval from the Maritime Provinces Higher Education Commission. Until now, students in the MBA program could take entrepreneurship courses as electives during their second year. The new concentration will allow them to further specialize in this area and...
Human Resources Student Association Launched at UNB
Liz Lemon-Mitchell
Posted: October 2, 2008 5:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Student Highlights
Lynn Haley and Candace Morgan, two human resources instructors in UNB's Faculty of Business Administration, were swamped with requests last year from students wanting to be more "networked" and informed about the HR opportunities available in the region upon graduation. Looking to fulfill this student need, the pair brainstormed ways in which they could play a larger role in connecting their students with the business community. Haley and Morgan invited students, both BBA and MBA, who were...
Marketing Student Association Launched at UNB
Liz Lemon-Mitchell
Posted: October 2, 2008 5:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Student Highlights
With approximately 100 student members to its credit, the newly formed Marketing Student Association (MSA) at UNB is up and running and making headway for what is shaping up to be an exciting year. Dr. Kirby Shannahan, marketing professor, had the idea of starting up a student marketing group to help meet the needs of UNB students and local businesses, both looking to better connect with one another. From the conversations in his classes, it was clear that students were interested in knowing...
Harvesting new skills in the Professional Development Program
Liz Lemon-Mitchell
Posted: September 17, 2008 5:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Student Highlights
The Faculty of Business Administration has just launched the newest of their experiential learning initiatives with the creation of the Professional Development program. Delivered as a required course in the Faculty's MBA program, the Professional Development program aims to complement the knowledge learned inside the classroom and proves that It's Never Business as Usual in the Faculty of Business Administration. "We believe knowledge is much more than theory," said Candace Morgan, the...
Faculty of Business Administration announces Graduate Dean s List
Liz Lemon-Mitchell
Posted: September 15, 2008 5:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Student Highlights
Dean Daniel F. Coleman of the Faculty of Business Administration at the University of New Brunswick's in Fredericton announced that thirty of the faculty's Master of Buiness Administration students have earned a place on the Dean's List for 2007-2008. Students on the list had attained a sessional grade-point average of at least 3.7 or A- for the academic year. During the 2007-08 academic year, 90 students were enrolled in the faculty's bachelor of business administration program. Click here...
Faculty of Business Administration announces undergraduate Dean s List of 2007-2008
Liz Lemon-Mitchell
Posted: September 8, 2008 5:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Student Highlights
Dean Daniel F. Coleman of the Faculty of Business Administration at the University of New Brunswick's in Fredericton announced that one hundred and thirty-three of the faculty's Bachelor of Business Administration students have earned a place on the Dean's List for 2007-2008. Students on the list had attained a sessional grade-point average of at least 3.7 or A- for the academic year. During the 2007-08 academic year, 1200 students were enrolled in the faculty's bachelor of business...
Faculty of Business Administration launches newsletter
Liz Lemon-Mitchell
Posted: June 22, 2008 5:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Student Highlights
UNB's Faculty of Business Administration is proud to announce the publication of the first issue of our faculty newsletter, Connections. The newsletter offers stories about the accomplishments and achievements of the faculty, staff, students and alumni; and features news about our events and academic programs. Connections, UNB's Faculty of Business Administration's Newsletter, will be published bi-annually at the end of each academic term. If you have comments, questions, or suggestions for...
UNB Business Student Receives Sobey Award
Liz Lemon-Mitchell
Posted: January 30, 2008 4:00:00 AM AST
Category: Student Highlights
Third year BBA student Lynn MacKinnon is a 2007-08 recipient of the prestigious Frank H. Sobey Award for Excellence in Business Studies. Lynn is one of six students across the Atlantic Provinces selected to receive this award, worth $10,000. The Frank H. Sobey Fund for Excellence in Business Studies was established in 1989 in memory of Frank H. Sobey, the late chairperson of Sobey Inc. and Empire Co. Ltd. The Sobey Fund supports as many as six awards each year. To be eligible, candidates...