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Smith Business
Close-Up
Smith Business
Close-Up is co-produced by the Robert
H. Smith School of Business and Maryland
Public Television.
The television segment focuses on the
latest thinking in business management,
and features in-depth interviews with
Smith School faculty and other members
of the school’s community of business
leaders.
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Thursday, May 1, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, May 4, 7:30 a.m.
Monday, May 5, 4:30 a.m. |
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Africa Trip for MBAs
 It
was an undeniably powerful
experience for two Smith
MBAs – a trip to Africa to
install solar panels in a
rural community center, then
watching children crowd
under the electric lights to
read.
In this edition of
Smith Business Close-Up
with the University of
Maryland’s Robert H. Smith
School of Business, Jason
Lee, a student finishing
up his first year of Smith’s
full-time MBA program, talks
about his work on a business
project that recently took
him and another Smith
student to a remote village
in Africa.
In January, the Smith
students joined a group from
the University of Maryland’s
chapter of Engineers without
Borders to travel to Dissin,
Burkina Faso. They installed
11 solar powered lighting
system in a local community
center to provide access to
an efficient, safe lighting
source. Now the group is
hoping to win a World
Bank-sponsored grant
competition to set up solar
power systems in villages
that would make some
villagers into
entrepreneurial power
suppliers for their
neighbors. |
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Smith Business Close-Up can be seen bi-weekly on
Maryland Public Television's
Your Business and Money
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Where to watch
Smith Business Close-Up can be
seen bi-weekly on Maryland Public
Television's Your Business and Money. The
program airs at 7:30 p.m. on Thursdays
and is repeated the following Sunday at
7:30 a.m. and Monday at 4:30 a.m. on
public television stations throughout
Maryland and the Washington, D.C.,
metropolitan region, including:
- WMPB-TV (Ch. 67), Baltimore
- WMPT-TV (Ch. 22), DC
metro/Annapolis
- WCPB-TV (Ch. 28), Salisbury
- WFPT-TV (Ch. 62), Frederick
- WWPB-TV (Ch. 31), Hagerstown
- WGPT-TV (Ch. 36), Oakland
Archives
Video archives of aired segments can
be viewed
online
and downloaded to your
iPod
via iTunes.
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