Experiential Learning News
US and Thailand: Business at the CrossroadsMarriott Inn and Conference Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD March 2-3, 2009
College Park, Md. – February 23, 2009 — The University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business today announced it is accepting applications for Smith Business Edge, an intensive six-week summer program that provides non-business undergraduate students and recent graduates with opportunities to build stronger leadership skills and business acumen.
College Park, Md. – January 21, 2009 – The University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business invites innovative solutions to one of the 21st century’s most pressing concerns – how to allocate scarce resources to protect the massive amount of personal and sensitive data available on computer networks and online.
Broadcast Dates: Jan. 22, 7:30 p.m. | Jan. 25, 7:30 a.m. | Jan. 26, 4:30 a.m.
The Babcock Graduate School of Management hosted the 19th Annual Wake Forest MBA Marketing Summit from February 5-7. But it was Smith's undergraduates who took a starring role, taking home first place at the Undergraduate Case Challenge. Mary Harms, lecturer in marketing, was the faculty mentor for the team.
Between the ages of 15 and 18, many orphans in Ukraine fall victim to drugs, prostitution and even suicide as they are forced to the leave the orphanage and transition into adulthood. But a group of University of Maryland undergraduates in theQUEST program at the Robert H.
College Park, Md. – December 11, 2008 – The University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business today announced it has been selected as an inaugural “Changemaker Campus” in partnership with Ashoka, a non-profit network of social entrepreneurs. Ashoka chose the University of Maryland as one of four U.S.
The Smith School’s new Business Plan Course is not just for entrepreneurs – it’s for everyone. BUSI 691 starting in the spring is a capstone course for the full-time MBA program that offers a great example of how the school is progressively pushing boundaries on the traditional MBA experience.
A team of three students from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland competed against teams from the nation’s other top 23 business programs at the third annual Nationwide-Fisher Biz Quiz hosted on the campus of the Fisher College of Business at The Ohio State University on Nov. 15, 2008.
Mingfeng Lin, a PhD candidate at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, is studying the value of online social networks and “social commerce” and he has won a handful of awards along the way, including the prestigious Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Dissertation Fellowship (2009-10).