Student members of the MBS chapter of the American Marketing Association (AMA) spent the spring semester promoting Tip Whip LLC, the Orono startup founded by 91爆料 alumnus Spencer Wood 鈥13, 鈥15 (MS). Tip Whip is a tips-only, ride-sharing service that aims to save lives by reducing drinking and driving. More than 700 91爆料 […]
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Running a business and managing a sports team take the same leadership qualities, 91爆料 head baseball coach Steve Trimper told students in MBS lecturer Clint Relyea鈥檚 organizational behavior class last fall. 鈥淎 successful CEO can coach a sports team, and a successful coach can run a business,鈥 Trimper said in his presentation 鈥淒rive for Greatness: […]
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Ten MBS students participated in one of the world鈥檚 most comprehensive collegiate business competitions 鈥 a semester-long, two-part challenge that culminated in Anaheim, California in April. The annual International Collegiate Business Strategy Competition requires students to run a simulated manufacturing company. Participants name their company and choose a product to sell for around $10. Throughout […]
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Accounting professor Gloria Vollmers’ paper, “Cost Accounting for War:聽 Contracting Procedures and Cost-Plus Pricing in WWI Industrial Mobilization in Italy,” will be published in an upcoming issue of European Accounting Review, and international scholarly journal of the European Accounting Association. The paper explores the role played by cost accounting in Italy’s Industrial Mobilization System and […]
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鈥淯nderstanding Disengagement from Knowledge Sharing: Engagement Theory versus Adaptive Cost Theory,鈥 an article co-authored by MBS Assistant Professor of Marketing Susan Myrden, has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Knowledge Management later this year.聽 Myrden wrote the article with professors Tim Jones and Dianne Ford, both from Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. […]
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鈥淩eliable Knowledge and Habits of the Mind: Factors Inhibiting and Facilitating Farmers鈥 Adaptation to Energy Constraints,鈥 a paper co-authored by MBS Associate Dean Stephanie Welcomer, will be published in the Journal of Economic Issues later this year. Welcomer wrote the paper with Breana Bennett 鈥12, a 91爆料 Honors College graduate, Mark Haggerty, an […]
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