Get a Glimpse of the UMD Smith Experience
Attend Your First UMD Smith MBA Class
Fall 2025
We are excited to invite you to experience UMD Smith! Please join us for this unique, immersive opportunity to attend an MBA class. This is a great way to engage with Smith faculty and current students as you prepare to launch your journey at UMD Smith.
During these class visits you will get to observe an MBA class in real-time. Participate in class discussion, learn from the professor and current students, and observe the classroom dynamic you may soon be experiencing first-hand!
Course Offerings
Space in these classes is limited, so register at your earliest convenience to secure your spot. Select the program of your choice below to see visit options.
Full-Time MBA Class Visits
All of the following class visits will be held at our campus in College Park, MD within the Van Munching Hall building.
Marketing Management
Analysis of marketing problems and evaluation of specific marketing efforts regarding the organization's products and services, pricing activities, channel selection, and promotion strategies in both domestic and international markets.
Professor: Judy Frels
Date: October 29, 2025
Time: 11:15 a.m. to 1:50 p.m.
Date: November 13, 2025
Time: 11:15 a.m. to 1:50 p.m.
Managerial Accounting
Use of accounting data in corporate planning and control. Cost-volume- profit analysis, budgeting, pricing decisions and cost data, transfer pricing, activity-based management, performance measures, and standard costing.
Professor: Naman Desai
Date: November 4, 2025
Time: 3:15 p.m. to 5:50 p.m.
Date: November 20, 2025
Time: 3:15 p.m. to 5:50 p.m.
Innovation & Product Development
Focuses on the development of innovations - new products or new services - from the perspective of a marketer. For an innovation to be successful in the market, it has to be customer-centric: hence, in this course, we study how to develop and bring to market elegant and efficient solutions to strong customer needs. This is a fundamental business challenge, faced while working in a startup or in an established company; when developing a new product or a new service; and when serving customers who are individuals or large corporations.
Professor: Yogesh Joshi
All of the following events will be held at our Baltimore, MD campus.
Marketing Management
Analysis of marketing problems and evaluation of specific marketing efforts regarding the organization's products and services, pricing activities, channel selection, and promotion strategies in both domestic and international markets.
Professor: Dan Goldsmith
Date: October 30, 2025
Time: 6:10 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Operations Management
Operations management is concerned with efficient and effective design and operation of business processes for delivering products and/or services. Emphasis is given to process analysis and design, capacity management and bottlenecks, waiting lines and the impact of uncertainty in process performance, quality management, lean, six-sigma, and revenue management.
Professor: Robert Hoffman
Date: November 3, 2025
Time: 6:10 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Date: November 10, 2025
Time: 6:10 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Data Driven Analytics
This course builds a strong foundation in data analysis for today’s business world. You’ll start with probability, descriptive statistics, and data visualization to understand uncertainty and support better decisions. You’ll also learn to use Palisade StatTools for analysis. From there, the course covers confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, and regression analysis, giving you practical tools to interpret data and make predictions. By the end, you’ll be ready to apply these skills to real business challenges and decision-making.
Professor: Ramakrishnan Balasubramanian
All of the following events will be held at our Washington, DC campus.
Marketing Management
Analysis of marketing problems and evaluation of specific marketing efforts regarding the organization's products and services, pricing activities, channel selection, and promotion strategies in both domestic and international markets.
Professor: Cathy Y. Chen
Date: November 3, 2025
Time: 6:10 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Date: November 17, 2025
Time: 6:10 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Operations Management
Operations management is concerned with efficient and effective design and operation of business processes for delivering products and/or services. Emphasis is given to process analysis and design, capacity management and bottlenecks, waiting lines and the impact of uncertainty in process performance, quality management, lean, six-sigma, and revenue management.
Professor: Suresh Acharya
Date: October 28, 2025
Time: 6:10 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Date: November 11, 2025
Time: 6:10 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Competitive and Collaborative Negotiation
Increase negotiating self-confidence and improve capacity to achieve win-win solutions to organizational problems. Improve effectiveness at finding creative solutions to conflict.
Professor: Rellie Derfler-Rozin
Date: October 30, 2025
Time: 6:10 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Date: November 6, 2025
Time: 6:10 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Data Driven Analytics
This course builds a strong foundation in data analysis for today’s business world. You’ll start with probability, descriptive statistics, and data visualization to understand uncertainty and support better decisions. You’ll also learn to use Palisade StatTools for analysis. From there, the course covers confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, and regression analysis, giving you practical tools to interpret data and make predictions. By the end, you’ll be ready to apply these skills to real business challenges and decision-making.
Professor: Ramakrishnan Balasubramanian
Date: November 5, 2025
Time: 6:10 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
All of the following events will be held at our Rockville, MD campus.
Marketing Management
Analysis of marketing problems and evaluation of specific marketing efforts regarding the organization's products and services, pricing activities, channel selection, and promotion strategies in both domestic and international markets.
Professor: Judy Frels
Date: November 5, 2025
Time: 6:10 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Date: November 19, 2025
Time: 6:10 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Operations Management
Operations management is concerned with efficient and effective design and operation of business processes for delivering products and/or services. Emphasis is given to process analysis and design, capacity management and bottlenecks, waiting lines and the impact of uncertainty in process performance, quality management, lean, six-sigma, and revenue management.
Professor: Suresh Acharya
Date: October 30, 2025
Time: 6:10 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Data Driven Analytics
This course builds a strong foundation in data analysis for today’s business world. You’ll start with probability, descriptive statistics, and data visualization to understand uncertainty and support better decisions. You’ll also learn to use Palisade StatTools for analysis. From there, the course covers confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, and regression analysis, giving you practical tools to interpret data and make predictions. By the end, you’ll be ready to apply these skills to real business challenges and decision-making.
Professor: Ramakrishnan Balasubramanian
Online MBA Class Visits
All of the following events will be held online via Zoom.
Data Analysis
Many different skills are required in arriving at informed managerial decisions. Among these are analytical and quantitative skills. Data Analysis is one in a sequence of two courses that seek to develop these two important skills. More formally, the goals of this course are: to introduce basic statistical techniques: summarizing and presenting data; confidence intervals and hypothesis tests; regression analysis; to implement these techniques using spreadsheets; and to become active users of data analysis in making managerial decisions.
Professor: Ilya Ryzhov
Date: October 30, 2025
Time: 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Date: November 13, 2025
Time: 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Innovative Solutions to Supply Chain Challenges
This course is designed to provide you with practical challenges to implement innovative and effective actions to achieve the goal of enhanced supply chain operations. You will be challenged to function as a supply chain executive in charge of major decisions. The course is designed to be a mix of action-focused learning combined with some very recent and interesting examples of how companies are addressing their own supply chain challenges in innovative ways.
Professor: Martin Dresner
Date: November 20, 2025
Time: 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Date: December 4, 2025
Time: 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Social Media and Web Analytics
Examines the process of developing, implementing, and analyzing strategies for successfully marketing a variety of existing and potential products and services using electronic media. Besides well-established Internet marketing tools such as e-mail, search engines and display advertising, a substantial part of the course is dedicated to understanding social media, analyzing successful social media strategies, and tracking their effectiveness. The course offers hands-on experience with many popular as well as emerging techniques unique to electronic media. Special attention is given to metrics appropriate for the new media.
Professor: Tejwansh Anand
Can’t find something to accommodate your schedule?
Please email mbaprograms@umd.edu to see what other options we may be able to offer.