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Jul 5
Mona School of Business and Management pays tribute to Mr Robert Gregory
  Mona School of Business and Management (MSBM) mourns the passing of Mr Robert Gregory, former lecturer and Associate Teaching Fellow. Mr Gregory joined the then Mona School of Business (MSB) in  2010 as an Associate Teaching Fellow, a position he held up to the time of his passing.  Over the course of his teaching career at MSBM, he taught the course “Transformational Leadership and Management” to hundreds of students in their pursuit of the MBA, EMBA and MBM degrees.& ››Read More
Vincent HoSang UWI Venture Competition All Star: Mother Teresa Driving School
  Mother Teresa Driving School CEO Leneka Rhoden, a graduate of the Queens High School and Faculty of Social Sciences with an Honors BSc. Degree in Marine Biology and International Relations, started the driving school to teach a new generation to have knowledge, respect and discipline when on the road. Her entrepreneurial journey began when she came to the personal realization that she did not want to put in what she characterizes as “116,480 hours” of work for someone else, so ››Read More
JMMB/Joan Duncan Memorial Scholarships 2022
  Applications are OPEN for the JMMB/Joan Duncan Memorial Scholarships 2022! Please download application form at https://bit.ly/JMMBScholarships2022 and email completed form to msbm@uwimona.edu.jm with the subject line: “JMMB Scholarship 2022”. Deadline: May 31, 2022. ››Read More
Corporate Social Responsibility winners of the 2021-2022 UWIVC awarded by JMMB
All female entrepreneur team T&S Delivery are the winners of the JMMB Joan Duncan Corporate Social Responsibility Prize (CSR) at the 2021 UWI Venture Competition (UWIVC). The CSR prize is awarded to the team whose profit model demonstrates a strong alignment with ethical social and economic development, with a robust giving programme. Team T&S is operated by sisters Tajera and Sanjee Orrett natives of the beautiful parish of St. Ann who saw a need to establish a delivery ser ››Read More
MSBM congratulates Ingrid Bennett on successfully completing her Doctoral Studies
Mona School of Business and Management (MSBM) congratulates Ingrid Bennett on successfully completing her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction. Ingrid Bennett is currently a Consultant, MSBM Consulting™ at the Mona School of Business and Management at The University of the West Indies, Mona (UWI). Ingrid has worked at MSBM in various capacities including Project Officer, Junior Research Fellow and Research Assistant. For the last 15 years, she has been a part of a Team in the Profe ››Read More
Two UWI Teams among top three winners in the 2022 National Business Model Competition
After a two year hiatus due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the National Business Model Competition (NBMC) was held April 7-8 2022 and two of the four  teams entered by the University of the West Indies (UWI), placed in the top three, placing third and second,  thereby securing a combined cash prize of J$1.5 million to invest in their businesses. Second place winner - Team Swaze App represented by Carl Duncan (Faculty of Science and Technology) and Third place – Fresh Fuel represented by ››Read More
MSBM hosts Student Engagement & Enrichment Sessions
Mona School of Business and Management (MSBM) hosted three virtual Student Engagement and Enrichment Sessions from March – April 2022. The Sessions were geared towards ensuring the holistic development of MSBM students. In that regard, the School constantly seeks to establish partnerships in order to provide the infrastructure and support needed to ensure that every student thrives and has an enjoyable, caring and enriching MSBM experience. The first of the three Sessions, “Putting ››Read More
Lawrence Nicholson | Family-owned business facts and myths
                        The long and storied history of family-owned businesses, FOBs, comes with facts, myths and old tales, many of which are not easily disaggregated or detangled. In many instances, myths are quoted as facts and facts are pushed aside as myths. Many of the statistics and proclamations being bandied about have given credence to the one of the laws of propaganda attributed to Nazi Joseph Goebbels: “Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth”. ››Read More