Asper School of Business News Archive
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Asper Network of Empowered Women (ANEW) open to students from all faculties
March 7, 2019 —
ANEW’s mission is to create a community of support and encouragement for young women at the U of M.
![Adam Henry and Nick Zajac. // Photo supplied by Nick Zajac.](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Adam-Henry-and-Nick-Zajac-150x150.jpg)
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Asper students to represent Team Canada at 2019 Winter Universiade
March 1, 2019 —
Asper students Adam Henry and Nick Zajac will represent Team Canada at the 2019 Winter Universiade in Krasnoyrarsk, Russia. The pair have been selected to be on the Canada men’s hockey team and will compete in the tournament which takes place from March 2 to 12.
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Free public conference addressing climate change and northern transportation
March 1, 2019 —
Join us March 2. Seminar topics will include a report on climate change, building all-weather gravel roads in the Canadian Shield and cargo airships for the north
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How to leverage your social presence to pivot your career: Chris Nepomuceno [MBA/09]
February 19, 2019 —
In 2015, Chris Nepomuceno (MBA ’09) was given eight weeks to find a new job when his division at TD Bank Financial Group in Toronto was sold to another company. He felt like a failure and was at a point in his life where he wasn’t sure what his next career move should be, or what the end-goal was.
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The Conversation: Out of the closet: Easing the backlash against same-sex couples in advertising
February 6, 2019 —
Gay-vague advertisements have proven popular with the LGBTQ community members while avoiding backlash from straight consumers. However, as society has become more accepting, mainstream brands started featuring same-sex couples in their advertisements
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Leadership in 2019
February 5, 2019 —
Suzanne Gagnon, Canada Life Chair in Leadership Education, shares her insight on how we should be approaching leadership in 2019
![Left to right: Abel Nyamori, Jordan Delury, Howard Harmatz, Collin Drosdoski, Peirce Dickson and Paige Small at the Inter-Collegiate Business Case competition. // Photo provided by Abel Nyamori](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/ICBC_Competition_Winners-150x150.jpg)
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Asper students finish first in two categories at ICBC
January 31, 2019 —
Two teams of students from the Asper School of Business recently competed at the finals of he Inter-Collegiate Business Competition (ICBC) at Queen’s University from January 17-19
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Can we effectively combine science and the humanities?
January 21, 2019 —
The Expanded Reason Awards celebrate and encourage innovation in transdisciplinary scientific research and academic programs that demonstrate how the sciences can be integrated with the humanities
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Women entrepreneurs in Manitoba to benefit from regional Women Entrepreneurship Knowledge Hub
December 14, 2018 —
I.H. Asper School of Business now home to one of the country’s Women Entrepreneurship Knowledge Hub nodes
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Free Press: U of M to create student bursaries in honour of Richardson & Sons leader
December 10, 2018 —
The University of Manitoba will honour Manitoba business leader Hartley Richardson in creating a pair of bursaries for students at the Asper School of Business.