Hot MBA Jobs: Public Relations Manager
If you’re reading this, it’s likely you know that doing business is as much an art as it is a science. When a company develops a new product or platform to address the increasingly unpredictable demands of the marketplace, the public often needs a container—an image, a vague feeling—in order to connect with the company’s ethos and ultimately buy into what’s being sold.
Smith School Professor Chimes in On Recent Tax Court Ruling
According to the Wall Street Journal, a recent tax court overruling of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) marks “a big win for all MBA students”, in a decision that “should embolden more students enrolled in MBA programs across the country to deduct their tuition — especially if they are getting an executive MBA.” But Samuel Handwerger, an accounting professor at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, doesn’t necessarily agree with the Journal’s sentiment. Continue reading…
Industry Spotlight: Healthcare in Baltimore
To most outsiders, Baltimore is the offbeat, charming, crab-loving cousin sandwiched between Philly and DC. While Charm City’s provincial peculiarities are both famous (John Waters’ Hairspray) and infamous (David Simon’s cult classic HBO drama The Wire), what non-Baltimoreans may not realize is that the Clipper City is also a hotbed for the healthcare industry.
Smith School Hires New Director of Military and Veteran Affairs
The University of Maryland Robert H. Smith School of Business recently hired Michael Connolly to be the school’s new director of military and veteran affairs. In this role, Connolly will be “a one-stop resource for service members during their entire association with Smith.” Continue reading…
Smith School’s Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship Launches Bootstrapped Podcast
New media is everywhere, and comes in some many new forms — Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram, Apple News. Nowadays media, news and information is now delivered in every imaginable way across a plethora of internet platforms. Another example of new media on the rise is the podcast — essentially the internet age’s take on terrestrial radio.
Podcast rose to prominence and gained popularity thanks to groundbreaking journalism from “Serial”, storytelling like “This American Life”, and comedy like “The Joe Rogan Experience”. Continue reading…
Smith School MBAs Research New Technologies in DC I-Corps Program
Ever since President Obama issued a 2011 Presidential Memorandum on accelerating technology transfer and commercialization of federal research in support of high-growth businesses, the commercialization of technology invented at federal labs has become a top priority in the United States. Continue reading…
