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ALUMNI NEWS
A Fellow Alumnus Needs Your Vote! Voting Ends Tonight!
Vote for Smith alum and board game inventor Dominic Crapuchettes (MBA ’04) for
Rising Star Inventor of the Year. His company North Star Games has created Cluzzle,
Say Anything and Wits & Wagers. He's up against movie star Daryl Hannah and needs
your votes!
Financial Times and Wall Street Journal Rank Smith's Executive MBA Program
among the World’s Best
In just-released reports, the executive MBA program at the Smith School ranks
No. 22 in the world, according to the Wall Street Journal. Smith’s
program ranked No. 15 for how well it imparts management skills to students and
No. 16 according to alumni rating. Financial Times ranks Smith's EMBA
program No. 15 in the U.S. The influential rankings place the Smith School's
EMBA No. 1 in the world for corporate strategy and No. 9 globally for
entrepreneurship and for faculty research, an area of strength for which the
school is consistently recognized as a leader.
First-ever Region-specific Smith Alumni Club Launches in New York
More than 200 alumni gathered at the Ernst & Young National Headquarters on Sept.
29, 2010, to celebrate the launch of the Smith Alumni Club of New York, or
SmithNY. The region-specific alumni club is the first of its kind for the Smith
School, and aims to unite the more than 5,000 alumni living in the Greater New York
region.
Read more about the SmithNY launch!
Pitch Your Business to Under Armour Founder and CEO Kevin Plank ‘96 at the UM Business
Competition: Cupid’s Cup
Calling all University of Maryland students and recent alumni who own and operate
businesses! You are invited to apply to participate in the
Sixth Annual UM Business
Competition: Cupid's Cup, judged and sponsored by successful Terp entrepreneur Kevin
Plank ’96, founder and CEO of Under Armour. All recent alumni (graduated in 2001
or later) with operating companies that have generated at least $5,000 in revenues
are eligible to apply. Companies must be no more than 5 years old. Applications
are due by January 5, 2011. Details and easy application instructions
can be found here. Questions? Email
dingman@rhsmith.umd.edu.
ALUMNI EVENTS
Register for the following events at
SmithConnector.
ThoughtLeadership@Smith Speaker Series
Discover big ideas for thoughtful leaders at the ThoughtLeadership@Smith
Speaker Series. The Smith School’s world-class faculty members
discuss their latest research on topics of broad interest
and importance.
Each presentation is followed by an opportunity to network
with alumni and regional business leaders at one of Smith’s
convenient local campuses in Washington, D.C., or Baltimore,
MD.
Breakfast begins at 8 a.m.; presentations begin at 8:30
a.m. and are followed by a Q&A period concluding at 10 a.m.
Cost is $25 for the general public, $15 for Smith School
alumni and $10 for current students unless otherwise noted
(includes continental breakfast). Attend two sessions and
receive $5 off the total price; attend three sessions and
receive $10 off the total price. Visit
www.rhsmith.umd.edu/thoughtleadership to register.
ThoughtLeadership@Smith in Washington, D.C.
Ronald Reagan Federal Building
1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20004
December 17
Larry Gordon, Ernst & Young Alumni Professor of Managerial
Accounting
Cybersecurity and Risk Management
ThoughtLeadership@Smith in Baltimore, MD
University of Maryland BioPark
801 W. Baltimore Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
November 19
Sandy Boyson, Research Professor
The New Science of X-Treme Supply Chain Management
December 10
Roland Rust, David Bruce Smith Chair in Marketing and Distinguished
University Professor
Optimizing Service Productivity
CEO@SMITH Speaker Series
CEO@Smith is a dynamic speaker series designed to connect
our community with leading business practitioners and innovators.
All events are free and open to the public, and take place
at 5:30 p.m. in Frank Auditorium, Van Munching Hall, at
the University of Maryland, College Park.
> Nov. 30, 2010 - Dick Cass,The Baltimore Ravens
> Feb. 22, 2011 - Pradman Kaul, Hughes Network Systems
> April 12, 2011 - David Rubenstein, The Carlyle Group
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