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Teams Play Supply Chain Game in
First Global Competition
The Supply Chain Management Lab at
the Smith School was buzzing by 8 a.m.
on Oct. 24 as four teams of Smith
students logged onto computers to
compete against teams from around the
world in the first global competition of
the Supply Chain Game. Developed by
researchers at the Robert H. Smith
School of Business and Delft University
of Technology in the Netherlands, the
game is the first real-time simulation
that pits players against each other in
an online interactive environment.
Players vie to increase profits and
market share by creating the most
efficient supply chain in a world where
unexpected problems, their business
decisions and the decisions of their
competitors impact the game.
Teams from five schools
participated: Smith, Penn State, CERAM
in France, Nankai University of
Technology in China, and the University
of Groningen in the Netherlands. The
game was a lead-up to a larger
competition the Smith School plans to
host this winter, in collaboration with
sponsor Sun Microsystems, in which teams
around the world will compete for prize
money donated by Sun.
►Full Story, with photos from teams
around the world
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Faculty and staff, join us on the evening of
November 13 at the Tysons Corner Ritz
Carlton for an alumni networking and
book signing event featuring Carly
Fiorina, MBA ’80, former chairman and
CEO of Hewlett-Packard, as she discusses
her new book Tough Choices: A Memoir.
In Tough Choices, Fiorina writes
with brutal honesty about her triumphs
and failures, her deepest fears, and her
most painful confrontations—including
her sudden and very public firing by
HP’s board of directors. The book
outlines the rise of one of the most
powerful businesswomen in America. Her
book is a must-read—and she is a
must-see! ($30 for
Faculty/Staff/Students).
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Smith
School Honors Leaders for Freight
Transportation
Contributions at Annual Industry Day
Jeffrey N. Shane, under secretary for
policy at the U.S. Department of
Transportation, and Ron Widdows, chief
executive of global transportation
company APL Ltd., received the joint
2006 “Person of the Year Award” from the
Smith School’s Logistics, Transportation
and Supply Chain Management (LTSCM)
Society and the Supply Chain Club (SCC)
on Oct. 27 in a ceremony at the
university’s Stamp Student Union Grand
Ballroom.
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MBA Alumni Mentor Program Kickoff
“Strengthening the Foundation” is
the theme of the 2006-2007 Smith MBA
Alumni Mentor Program (AMP), which got
under way on Saturday Oct. 21st, with a
kick-off celebration that gave mentors
and protégés the opportunity to meet for
the first time. The morning offered
speakers including AMP Steering
Committee members Glenn Gargan '87, MBA
'02, and Assistant Dean Joanne
Ferchland-Parella, MBA '06, who
encouraged participants to get involved
with the program to the fullest extent.
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Spotlight:
Associate Dean Scott
Koerwer
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 As
an entrepreneur in education, Dr. Scott
Koerwer has served as senior director at the
Wharton School of the University of
Pennsylvania, launched three companies, and
worked as a consultant for a variety of
companies and entrepreneurial ventures.
Koerwer, associate dean of professional
programs and services, joined the Smith
School in 2001 because of its dynamics and
the opportunity to build an executive
program. In his role Koerwer oversees all
the programs and services that fall between
the undergraduate and PhD programs. Here at
Smith this encompasses a number of programs
which include the MBA & MS programs, the
part-time MBA program (delivered in three
locations), the executive MBA programs
(world-wide), and Smith Advisory &
Collaborative Services – which delivers
consultative educational solutions for small
to medium sized organizations. Koerwer takes
pleasure in working here at Smith because he
likes everything about the school. He gets
to work with a smart, committed team, a
world-class faculty and an evolving student
body, and for a school that is continually
advancing.
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Smith School in the News
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►The
(Baltimore) Sun – Oct. 31, 2006 –
Fast-food chain Kentucky Fried Chicken
announced plans to cut out unhealthy
trans fats, following some other chains.
Assistant marketing professor Jie
Zhang is quoted, saying soon all
major restaurants will likely address
the issue soon.
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New York Times – Oct. 29, 2006 – A
Q&A about starting a business while
keeping your current job asks “Is it
ethical to plan and operate an
independent business on your employer’s
time?” Asher Epstein, managing
director of the Dingman Center for
Entrepreneurship said it was acceptable
to work on side projects during lunch
hour, if you’re not using company
resources to do so.
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►Financial
Times – Oct. 23, 2006 – The Smith
School’s custom MBA program for SAIC is
highlighted in a story about the trend
of such programs. Alison Buckley
is quoted and SAIC’s manager of learning
programs and partnerships talks about
the program.
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►BusinessWeek
Online – Oct. 30, 2006 – A story
about weak third-quarter GDP numbers
points to a housing slump and potential
real estate recession. Business
professor Peter Morici is quoted.
►Read more
►Christian
Science Monitor – Oct. 30, 2006 –
Car buyers could see some good deals as
the auto industry looks to unload
inventory. It could impact the economy.
Business professor Peter Morici
is quoted.
►Read more
►Journal
of Commerce Online – Oct. 27, 2006 –
The Smith School honored U.S. Department
of Transportation Under Secretary
Jeffrey N. Shane and APL Chief Executive
Ron Widdows with the “Person of the
Year” award at an
Industry Day ceremony.
►NPR
Day to Day – Oct. 25, 2006 – A story
about DaimlerChrysler earnings includes
an interview with business professor
Peter Morici, who talks about U.S.
automakers.
►Read more and
listen online
►Wall
Street Journal – Oct. 24, 2006 – An
article about getting better deals on
car purchases points to a Smith School
study. “Researchers at the University of
Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of
Business in College Park, Md., found
consumers who used the Web to obtain
price-related information paid an
average of about $404 less than the
average buyers of the same vehicles.
They also found consumers who obtain
pricing data online visit fewer
dealerships and complete their purchases
more quickly.”
►China
Economic Review – Oct. 23, 2006 –
Management and Organization professor
Gilad Chen gave a public lecture in
Shanghai and sat down with China
Economic Review for a brief Q&A on
cross-cultural management issues before
the lecture.
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►Science
magazine – Oct. 20, 2006 – David
Kirsch, management and organization
professor, reviews the documentary “Who
Killed the Electric Car?” Kirsch is a
historian of emerging industries and
wrote a book about the history of the
electric car.
►Read more
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Smith Business Close-Up on MPT |
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Thursday, November 2,
7:30 p.m.
Friday, November 3,
6:00 a.m.
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Local Entrepreneurs – and
Smith MBA Alums – Attempt to
Break Up Big Game Monopoly
Hasbro is the 800-pound
gorilla of the $5-billion
board game industry, owning
Parker Brothers, Milton
Bradley and dozens of
smaller companies. Under
these conditions, the
challenges of successfully
marketing a new board game
to the mass market are
enormous. In this week's edition of
Smith Business Close-Up
local entrepreneurs and
Smith MBAs Dominic
Crapuchettes and Satish
Pillalmarri, co-owners of
North Star Games, discuss
the challenges of starting
their own business and how
new start-ups can stay ahead
of the pack in an
increasingly competitive
marketplace.
Smith Business
Close-Up can be seen
bi-weekly on Maryland Public
Television's Business
Connection. Watch Smith MBA
alums Dominic Crapuchettes
and Satish Pillalmarri
Thursday, November 2 at 7:30
p.m. and Friday, November 3
at 6:00 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), D.C. metro/Annapolis
■ WCPB-TV (Ch. 28), Salisbury
■ WFPT-TV (Ch. 62), Frederick
■ WWPB-TV (Ch. 31), Hagerstown
■ WGPT-TV (Ch. 36), Oakland
►Watch previous episodes online.
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Faculty Up Front
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 New
Book Released
Perspectives in Operations Research:
Papers in Honor of Saul Gass' 80th Birthday
in "The
Springer's Operations Research/Computer
Science Interfaces Series,"
was edited by Smith Professors Frank Alt,
Michael Fu and Bruce Golden with
contributions from distinguished INFORMS
luminaries such as
Tom Magnanti, Dick Larson, Karla Hoffman,
Randy Robinson, and Al Blumstein. The
contributors, among the most prominent
scholars in the field of operations
research, offer their perspectives on the
history of the field, current trends in
research, and future problems of interest. There will be a
special autograph session by Saul Gass,
professor emeritus of management science at
Smith, on Monday, Nov. 6 from 3-5 p.m. at
the INFORMS Pittsburgh meeting at the
Springer booth in the Exhibits area; see
also
www.rhsmith.umd.edu/dit/news/opsresearch.html
for information on the symposium that took
place on February 25, 2006.
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Technology@Smith |
New Password Policy
Many of you have seen recent communication
from the University’s Office of Information
Technology (OIT) regarding their new policy
for passwords in the University Directory.
We will take this opportunity to explain
what this means to you as a part of the
Smith School community. If you have any
questions at all, please contact the Smith
IT Help desk at
helpme@rhsmith.umd.edu or at
301-405-2269.
Many of you are (and should be)
suspicious of e-mail asking you to change
your passwords. The message from OIT is
genuine – they have in fact changed their
policy, and if you have not changed your
password since August 16, you will need to
change your password to continue accessing
systems such as Blackboard, the eSmith
portal, ARES, Testudo, and the campus
wireless network. In addition, from now on
passwords will expire on University systems
every 180 days.
We urge everyone who has received a
message about their University Directory
password expiring to go to the university’s
password site at
http://password.umd.edu well in advance
of the deadline. The servers handling the
password rotation have shown signs of
overloading, and you don’t want to get
caught in the rush on the last day. There
are two upcoming dates for these changes -
November 8th and November 15th. The
notification e-mail you receive from OIT
will indicate which expiration date your
account will be assigned – you cannot choose
or change this date.
If you have not already done so, when you
go to their site to reset your password you
will be prompted to enter the answers to a
set of security questions. This set of
questions will be used to validate your
identity in the future should you ever
forget your password. With these questions,
users will be able to reset their own
passwords without having to contact the OIT
help desk.
We know that many will find getting used
to the new password policy to be painful,
but this change of policy is an important
step in securing computer resources at the
University. State auditors created the
password quality and rotation policy in
alignment with state and industry best
practices. Smith will be matching the policy
to protect our own systems using the same
standard in the near future. In fact, in an
independent security penetration audit
contracted by Smith IT, the only breech of
Smith system security was through a
low-quality password. It is vital we protect
our systems and data from attack.
Questions with Answers
Q: Can I be exempt from the new
policy?
A: We are unaware of anyone being granted an
exemption by the University’s Office of
Information Technology.
Q: Why is such a difficult policy in
effect? What’s the point?
A: Security breeches at universities have
made big headlines over the past few years.
Because university networks (and UM is no
exception) are so open on the Internet, they
are especially susceptible to attack. It’s
important that we follow industry best
practices to protect all of our systems. It
is often very easy for one compromise in one
seemingly unimportant system to lead to
other systems being compromised.
There are widely available programs that
guess passwords. The site
http://www.lockdown.co.uk/?pg=combi
lists the time required for these programs
to correctly guess passwords of different
compositions. For example, a single typical
desktop computer can guess an eight-letter
password using just lower case letters in a
maximum of 348 minutes, but the same length
password using a mixture of upper and lower
case letters plus numbers and symbols would
take 23 years!
Q: What is Smith going to do to make
this easier?
A: While the campus is providing no support
to departments and colleges to implement
their own security improvements, the Smith
School is taking the lead in helping its
users secure their systems. This summer we
installed a new password change utility that
will allow you to change the passwords for
all of your Smith accounts (Netware, Lotus
Notes client, and Lotus Notes internet) on
one Web page. This system was rolled out to
the incoming graduate students this fall,
and based on the experience gained from that
rollout we are developing a rollout plan for
the rest of the school. The current plan is
that we will call for Smith users to change
their passwords to be compliant with the new
policy in February, after we have fully
deployed the tool.
More detail on the password
synchronization tool will come in a future
message.
New Smith IT Web Site
Over the last several months, the Smith IT
Staff have been working on a new look for
their Web site. On October 19th, our new Web
site went live. Please visit our new site at
http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/smithit and
send any comments or suggestions to
helpme@rhsmith.umd.edu.
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Bulletin Board |
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 11/13
Beijing Smith Leadership Series &
Information Session.
Gilad
Chen, associate professor of
management and organization, will
speak on "How to manage human
capital in a globalized company," at
the Beijing American Club. To
register or for more information
e-mail:
beijing@rhsmith.umd.edu or
phone: 8610 6510 2600.
Five members of College Park's EMBA 6
will travel to Shanghai, China, to
attend a Leadership Development elective
course taught by Dr. Gilad Chen, Nov. 16-19.
They will be keeping a daily blog while they
are there. The EMBA Blog will be online at
http://blogs.rhsmith.umd.edu/emba
Smith
EMBA7 will be starting on November 12 and
EMBA5 will be wrapping up with their
Business Simulation that following week in
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November 2, 2006
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11/3 CIO
Forum
11/13 Beijing Smith Leadership Series &
Information Session.
Gilad Chen, associate professor of
management and organization, will speak on
"How to manage human capital in a globalized
company," Beijing American Club. To register
or for more information e-mail:
beijing@rhsmith.umd.edu or phone: 8610
6510 2600.College Park FALL TERM
11/23-24 Thanksgiving Holiday
12/20 UM
Commencement
12/21
Smith Commencement
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Smith School
History
1965
The college's first major research grand
- $182,500 - is received from the Federal Bureau of
Public Roads to fund a two-year study of public
demand for various transportation systems and modes
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