Smith School Kicks Off New Semester With Week of Orientation
It’s that time of year again, prospective MBAs: Back to school time at the Robert H. Smith School of Business. At Smith, incoming full-time MBAs don’t even have to wait long to meet employers and learn what kind of talent they want to hire — in fact, they get to do it before the books even open. Continue reading…
Graduate Assistantships Help Pay For Smith School MBAs
Looking for ways to pay for your full-time MBA degree at the Robert H. Smith School of Business? Teaching assistantships are available to full-time, academically qualified students who are willing to work in exchange for tuition.
Teaching assistantships and graduate assistantships allow participants to develop their skills in technology, communications, business research, teaching, small business counseling, and project management, while receiving a partial tuition waiver, a stipend for 180 hours of work per semester, and also pay the equivalent of in-state tuition rates. Continue reading…
Smith School Faculty Reveals This Year’s Top-10 Summer Reading List for Business Leaders
The University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business recently put together a list of faculty-favorite books in the school’s “12th Annual Top-10 Summer Reading List for Business Leaders” for 2015. These reads are perfect for prospective MBA heading off to business school as well as those who are already climbing up the corporate ladder.
Below is a selection from the list. You can check out the full selection here. Continue reading…
Women Leaders of the Smith School Speak at Forté MBA Women’s Leadership Conference
On June 20, two expert businesswomen from the Robert H. Smith School of Business, Elana Fine and Vice Dean Joyce E.A. Russell, discussed the importance of speaking up and asking for more at the Forté MBA Women’s Leadership Conference in Washington, D.C.
Fine moderated a keynote panel on empowering women entrepreneurs. Continue reading…
Smith School Professor Up for Thinkers50 List
It may not be election season yet, but one professor at the Robert H. Smith School of Business is looking for his network to rock the vote. Anil Gupta, Michael D. Dingman Chair in Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the Smith School is nominated for Thinkers50, a list of the world’s 50 most influential living management thinkers. When it was launched in 2001, the Thinkers50 was the first-ever global ranking of management thinkers and has been published every two years since.
Some Helpful Summer Internship Advice From a Smith MBA
Allison Davern, a first-year, full-time MBA student at the University of Maryland Smith School of Business, recently posted a checklist for all summer internship-bound MBAs. Davern, whose internship will be working in general management at Vanguard in Philadelphia, put together this list of things for fellow interns to keep in mind this summer: Continue reading…
