Calendar of Events
Mark your calendars for another year of interesting and informative USM Corporate Partners "Business Before Hours" Breakfasts!
All USM Corporate Partners Breakfasts are held on the first Wednesday of the month in the Dining Room of the Woodbury Campus Center, Bedford Street, Portland campus, unless otherwise specified.
Breakfast agenda: 7:15-7:30 a.m. coffee and conversation; 7:30-9 a.m. breakfast buffet and program. Call 780-4709 for more information.
[ See the list of breakfasts to be held in 2009-2010 ]
2008-2009:
September 9, 2008 at Hannaford Lecture Hall
USM President Selma Botman shared her vision and goals for USM as she embarked on her inaugural year as the University’s 10th president.
Sponsors: Macdonald Page, Systems Engineering, and University Credit Union
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October 8, 2008
Former participants in the USM School of Business Student Business Plan Competition shared their stories of how the competition helped launch their businesses, where they were then, and what the future held for them.
Sponsors: Clark Associates Insurance
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November 12, 2008
From the bench to the bedside, Dr. Kenneth Ault, director of the Maine Medical Research Institute, presented an overview of the research being done in Scarborough that impacts our health locally and globally, as well as the economic driver that this type of biomedical research provides to the region.
Sponsors: Gorham Savings Bank, Winter People
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January 14, 2009 at Hannaford Lecture Hall, Abromson Center, Portland
Breakfast with Charlie:
Maine’s Economic Forecast for 2009
Dr. Colgan's ever-popular economic forecast for Maine provides a well-researched and effectively presented analysis of the economy in Maine and the effects national trends may have for our region.
Sponsors: Fluid Imaging Technology, Norway Savings Bank, Pierce Atwood, Pizzagalli Construction, Systems Engineering, and Wright Express.
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February 13, 2009
This program featured Michael Dubyak, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Wright Express,who shared the company's unique story about doing business in Maine and how they have partnered with USM and others to be a successful and well respected member of the business community.
Sponsors: Integrated Benefit Solutions, Wright Express
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March 11, 2009
This decade has seen major advances in, and increasing acceptance of, Green technology. The panel presented an overview of trends in the Green building and Sustainability movement and provided examples of how small and large business, as well as home owners, could incorporate and integrate Green principles and sustainability into their spaces...and, over time, their mission statements.
Panel Participants:
Peter W. Taggart, Chair, Maine Chapter U.S. Green Building Council & President, Taggart Construction, Inc.
Carolyn Beem '00, Manager, Public Relations, LL Bean
Mary Allen Lindemann, Founder and Co-Owner, Coffee By Design
Sponsors: Envirotecture, Pennisi & Lamare, Verrill Dana, LLP
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April 8, 2009
The USM School of Business Student Business Plan Competition returns in its eighth year when USM Corporate Partners met the finalists and learned the winner of $10,000 and additional professional counsel to start their business.
Sponsors: Amica Mutual Insurance Company, ARAMARK, Pro Search, Inc.
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May 13, 2009
Captain Rick Hauck retired in April, 2005, as President and Chief Executive Officer of global space insurers, AXA Space, after a 43 year career in military aviation, civil and commercial space. His last military assignment was Director of Navy Space Systems in the Pentagon. During his 11 years as a NASA astronaut, he flew on three space shuttle missions, the last as commander of DISCOVERY for the first space shuttle mission after the CHALLENGER tragedy. Mr. Hauck received a B.S. in Physics from Tufts University and a M.S. in Nuclear Engineering from M.I.T. He is a Fellow of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the American Astronautical Society. He is an inductee into the Astronaut Hall of Fame, a member of the board of the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation, and a National Associate of the National Academies. Mr. Hauck was awarded two Defense Distinguished Service Medals, the NASA Distinguished Service Medal, and the Distinguished Flying Cross. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the US Space Foundation and the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation, and is a member of the NASA and Institute of Nuclear Power Operations advisory councils.
Sponsors: AAA Northern New England, MEMIC
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