Emily Ashley, a fourth-year student at the University of Manitoba’s Asper School of Business, has been announced as this year’s recipient of the UMSU Student Involvement Award – Governance (the Ed Anderson Award).
The award recognizes students who have shown exemplary skill, initiative, and dedication to student governance at the U of M, and is worth […]

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The Stu Clark Investment Competition is attracting teams from prominent business schools across North America.
There is a strong pedigree of schools who want to prove their entrepreneurial acumen in this year’s University of Manitoba competition, including Johns Hopkins University, University of Loyola Marymount, University of Waterloo, the Richard Ivey School of Business and even Sasin […]

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Federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz and Manitoba Agriculture Food and Rural Initiatives Minister Ron Kostyshyn will be at the University of Manitoba’s Asper School of Business on March 18 to welcome the new Guy Carpenter Professorship in Agriculture Risk Management and Insurance.
Dr. Lysa Porth has been selected to head the new Guy Carpenter Professorship in […]

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University of Manitoba professor Bruno Dyck’s will launch his new book, Management and the Gospel: Luke’s Radical Message for the First and Twenty-First Centuries, tomorrow at McNally Robinson Booksellers in Winnipeg.
Date: Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: The Atrium at McNally Robinson Booksellers - Grant Park Mall, Winnipeg
Dyck is a professor of business administration at […]

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A team from the Asper School of Business took home the prize for Best Business Plan – and possibly a big business deal – at this year’s Global Venture Labs Investment Competition.
Students Raif Richardson, Gary Gervais, Brady Fisher, Jeremy Muzyka and Elena Roussak presented a plan for Solvert Inc., a company that produces GeoTop, the […]

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The Business and Economic Inequality Forum (BEIF), a group of University of Manitoba scholars and local business owners, is focused on understanding the role of business in societal economic inequality.
To that end, they will host a lecture by Costas Panayotakis, an Associate Professor of Sociology at the New York City College of Technology of the […]

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Asians and North Americans view gift exchanges differently and that could potentially harm their relationships with each other
A series of five experiments confirmed that Asians are more likely than North Americans to refuse a small gift that is offered to them by a casual acquaintance.
The study provides one of the first demonstrations of a cultural […]

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