National Association of Women MBAs Partners with Smith School
The Smith School will lead discussions on women in finance, marketing and consulting at the National Association of Women MBAs Conference and Career Fair at the Hyatt Regency in Crystal City, Va. Overall, 19 Smith School alumnae and staff members will participate as panelists and moderators. Continue reading…
Smith Alums Recall Their Favorite MBA Courses
When alumni look back on their graduate school experience there will undoubetly be a course or two that stick out from the rest. MBAs at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business are no differnet, with many of the offered courses leaving profound and lasting impacts on students. Here are a few view points for former Smith MBAs, giving testimonial to their favorite classes for their time at Smith: Continue reading…
Smith School Named in Net Impact Rankings
Net Impact named the Robert H. Smith School of Business as 20th in Social Impact and 30th in Sustainability among MBA programs in the 2014 “Business as UNusual” rankings. Continue reading…
Smith School Alum Talks Transformational Leadership
Donna Blackman, EMBA ’10, manages people around the clock—at work she heads a team of 60 finance professionals. Back at home she’s a mother of two. Hard to say which is harder, but Blackman does not claim to have a secret recipe for work-life balance. Continue reading…
Smith Encourages Women in Business with New Scholarships and Partnerships
New scholarships, alliances, program innovations and opportunities are now available for women at the Robert H. Smith School of Business. Some of these new scholarships will come from Smith’s participation in the Forté Fellows Program, an international campaign organized to increase the number of women in top MBA programs. Smith and five other schools officially joined the Forté community on July 1, bringing the total in the network to 48 member schools in the United States, Canada and Europe. Continue reading…
Smith School Hosts Executive Roundtable On Business School Global Initiatives
The Robert H. Smith School of Business recently had the privilege of hosting the first in-person meeting of the Executive Roundtable on business school global initiatives. The discussion featured a group of heads of international education offices at top-tiered business schools. For two days in June, they shared the best practices in global business education, examined assessment tools typically used to measure global competencies, and envisioned the “next generation” of global programs. Continue reading…
