REGISTER: 10th Annual Cupid’s Cup UMD’s Smith School
For Smith students and budding business school entrepreneurs across the country, it’s that time of year again.
Kevin Plank, Under Armour’s founder and CEO, will partner with his alma mater, The University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business to host Cupid’s Cup—Smith’s Entrepreneurial Business Competition. Plank, ’96, will welcome six finalists and a panel of celebrity judges on April 22, 2015. There’s more than $100,000 on the line, and access to the CEO’s professional network. Continue reading…
US News and World Report Ranks Smith in Top 20 Public MBAs of 2015
U.S. News and World Report’s 2016 Best Graduate Programs ranks The Robert H. Smith School of Business as No. 41 among 464 accredited full-time MBA programs surveyed and No. 20 among public schools. The ranking were released on March 10, 2015.
In addition, Smith School’s part-time MBA program is ranked No. 26 overall and No.16 among public schools, according to a Press Release on the business school’s website. Continue reading…
Smith School’s Annual Monte Carlo Night a Success
The one night members of the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business family know they can’t miss is always the school’s annual Monte Carlo Night Gala. The 13th annual celebration brought together nearly 700 full-time MBA, part-time MBA, EMBA, and MS students; alumni; faculty; and staff for an evening of dancing and casino gaming on Saturday, Feb. 28, 2015, at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington, D.C. Continue reading…
Smith School MBAs Travel Abroad In Global Business Programs
Over winter break, 112 full-time and part-time MBAs from the Robert H. Smith School of Business traveled abroad on faculty-led global business courses that had them learning about business practice in various, colorful foreign settings such as the United Arab Emirates, Singapore, Japan and Chile. Continue reading…
REGISTER: Smith School’s 7th Social Enterprise Symposium
The Center for Social Value Creation at the Robert H. Smith School of Business will be presenting the 7th Social Enterprise Symposium (SES) on Friday, Feb. 27, 2015 from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. The event is held at the Stamp Student Union, University of Maryland and in conjunction with the three-day AshokaU Exchange, which is an international convening on social entrepreneurship in higher education. The symposium is free for UMD students, faculty and staff, but space is limited. Continue reading…
Smith School Hosts MBA From The Land Down Under
For the fifteenth year, the Smith School of Business hosted 45 MBA students from Australia for a two-week USA “Business and Culture Tour.” The program is one of the ways that the Smith School and RMIT University (the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) collaborate with each other. The two institutions have set up a semester-long exchange program and this summer a two-week Business Management course will be taught for Smith students in Melbourne by Mary Harms, clinical associate professor in marketing at Smith. Continue reading…
