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Posted May 21, 2012
A student organization at the University of Southern Maine has won its second consecutive regional championship based on a series of exemplary community-building projects. Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE), a 21-member team sponsored by the USM School of Business...
Posted May 18, 2012
Professor Andrew Coburn, chair of the Master of Public Health program at the USM Muskie School of Public Service, talks to the BDN about the competitive advantage for businesses in keeping employees- and communities- healthy.
Posted April 18, 2012
Dr. Andonian discusses resilience as a critical concept in mental health practice, as well as parenting, in the article "Happy, Hardy Kids" and the April 8 radio segment titled "Kids."
Posted April 7, 2012
Dr. Dana Kerr, assistant professor of risk management and insurance, published "Exploring the Role of Pseudodeductibles in Auto Insurance Claims Reporting" in the most recent issue of the Journal of Insurance Issues (Vol. 35, No. 1).
Posted April 7, 2012
Where are the jobs? That’s the question every young person — and many who are not so young — are asking. The Occupy Wall Street movement and the Arab Spring were ostensibly protests about corporate greed and oppressive regimes, but they not surprisingly arose when young people throughout the world were unable to find jobs.
Posted April 7, 2012
"Nobody known to this reviewer can see into the future, but by studying the past, there are signs of directions that politicians and experts du jour should never be allowed to take our society in again. University of Southern Maine professor Stephen T. Murphy has just produced such a cautionary volume..."
Posted April 3, 2012
"The raising of the veil confirmed what most had suspected — Facebook is a tremendously unique company in many respects. The number of users is staggering: 845 million monthly active users at the end of 2011, uploading more than 250 million photos on an average day. Users are eagerly embracing new ways of accessing Facebook; roughly half of active users access both at home and on mobile products. It has become an essential part of life for tens, if not hundreds, of millions of people."
Posted February 29, 2012
On Sunday, March 4, 2012, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., members of the University of Southern Maine Students In Free Enterprise (SIFE) team will be at the Scarborough Sam's Club to host the "Stuff the Trucks" Food and Fund Drive in support of Good Shepherd Food Bank.
Posted February 21, 2012
Shakespeare on business — really? Shakespeare’s plays provide timeless insights for managers because so many deal with the dynamics of leadership — themes of power and its abuse, character and its flaws, ambition and its destructiveness, loyalty and its betrayal.
Posted February 10, 2012
Seven USM Business students are finalists in the XFINITY Next Sports Media Star contest to win a job as a social media reporter for XFINITY/Comcast Sports! To give our students the most support- and the best chance at winning- we’re asking our USM faculty, staff, students, alumni, and community to vote now and vote often...
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