Robert H. Smith School of Business
Maryland Smith EMBAs Support Agromovil Initiative to Improve the Farm-to-Market System
Agromovil, an app-based platform supporting small-scale agriculture, has announced a collaborative project involving six mid-career professionals from the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business Executive MBA program.
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The Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship Gears Up for an Expanded 2021 Competition
Last year’s Pitch Dingman Competition was originally scheduled for March 2020, which we now all remember well as the precipice of change to life as we knew it. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Dingman Center team swiftly shifted the competition to a then unfamiliar virtual format.
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Maryland Smith Online MBA No. 10 in U.S. News & World Report Ranking for 2021
Maryland Smith continues to be named among the best top-tier online MBA programs, as ranked by the U.S. News and World Report’s Best Online MBA Programs for 2021, holding the No. 10 spot for the second consecutive year.
The 2021 ranking is based on a range of metrics in five measured categor...
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The Feeling Economy: How AI is Creating the Era of Empathy
New Book Guides Workers, Leaders and Educators
The next stage in the evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) has workforce implications that may seem surprising.
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Maryland Smith Marketing Faculty Recognized for Research, Mentoring
The marketing department at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business was recently recognized for prolific research over the last decade by the American Marketing Association (AMA), a leading industry organization. Individual faculty members were recognized for their co...
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Global Trade Predictions from Two Industry Experts
The Center for Global Business (CGB) hosted a conversation with Javier Lopez Gonzalez, senior trade policy analyst at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), and William Reinsch, senior adviser and Scholl Chair in International Business at the Center for Strategic ...
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Smith School In the News: 2021
The Smith School's world-class faculty are routinely quoted in leading business and other media, while Smith's innovative programs and research projects also receive attention.
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Maryland Partners in International Trade Hosts Webinar on Risk in International Markets
The Center for Global Business (CGB) presented the second installment of a new series of webinars by the MAPIT Alliance focused on risk when entering international markets. In the webinar, “Choosing and Entering Foreign Markets,” experts shared helpful tips and best practices about how to ma...
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Maryland Smith Partners With PepsiCo in Course
At Maryland Smith, learning is a cooperative effort. And this semester, representatives from PepsiCo worked with Maryland Smith students to teach them about the ins and outs of the sales industry.
This semester in BMGT 350, a marketing principles course offered to nearly 700 students across ...
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Maryland Smith’s Louiqa Raschid Named IEEE Fellow
Professor of Information Systems Louiqa Raschid at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. School of Business has been named a Fellow by the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
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Maryland Smith Students Advance to Finals of Deloitte’s Audit Innovation Campus Challenge
Caption: Top row, from left, Maryland Smith students Brianna Bauer, Michael Gordon and Jack McGrinder. Bottom row, from left, Breena Rettig, Marianne Feng and Ryan Gotkin
A six-member student team from the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland has advanced to the finals ...
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Welcome Dean Konana
With the start of 2021, the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business is welcoming its new dean, Prabhudev Konana. Konana joins Maryland Smith from the University of Texas at Austin’s McCombs School of Business, where he served as associate dean of Instructional Innovation.
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Teaching Globally, Virtually, at Maryland Smith
Travel had mostly grinded to a halt and learning was mostly online in 2020’s fall semester, but at Maryland Smith, global educational experiences were forging ahead in new ways.
Maryland Smith’s J. Gerald Suarez led students from BMGT468Z: Creating the Future through Systems Thinking and Des...
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Maryland Smith Recognizes Winter Graduates in Virtual Commencement
The University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business celebrated its winter graduates in a virtual commencement ceremony on Sunday.
During the ceremony, which followed the university’s main commencement event, 203 undergraduate students, 70 MBA students and 339 business master’s st...
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Maryland Smith MBAs Provide Global Export Consulting for Maryland Company This Fall
The Center for Global Business partnered with Insight Engineering (IE), a construction and infrastructure company located in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, that focuses on real estate and land development on the Maryland Global Export Consulting program.
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CFP Event Explores Diversity and the Bottom Line
When it comes to diversity, the investment industry has a ways to go.
That fact, while well known, was further illuminated this month in a survey from the Diverse Asset Managers Initiative (DAMI) and discussed in “Diversity and the Bottom Line,” a webcast hosted by the Center for Financial P...
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Lab Seeks To Help Students Find Intentional Life
Launched this year within the Robert H. Smith School of Business’ Ed Snider Center for Enterprise and Markets, the Intentional Life Lab seeks to help students at the University of Maryland develop their personal "why" and "how" toward an authentic life path.
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Global Recognition for a Maryland Smith ‘Pandemic Pivot’
MBA Roundtable Cites the Impact Consulting Fellowship Program as an Innovative Response to COVID
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Maryland Smith Taps Five Exporters as Case Studies for ‘Maryland Business Adapts’ Campaign
The Center for Global Business (CGB) at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business will feature five Maryland-based exporting firms for their best practices in COVID perseverance, via a “Maryland Business Adapts” roundtable event forthcoming this spring.
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$400K+ in SGA Grants Support Students Through Pandemic
Funds Will Help With Emergency Needs, Food Insecurity, More
Normally, the University of Maryland’s Student Government Association doles out hundreds of thousands of dollars each semester from student fees to fund everything from the Filipino Cultural Association’s conference expenses to TEDx...
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