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You cannot be an educated businessman without understanding China. This was the opening statement by Dean Howard Frank during Seminar Day on March 7, 2006. The event was held as part of Smith's Week of Asia, organized by the Asian MBA Association. The first of the two lectures was delivered by Mr.
What does it take for women to succeed in business? For one woman Janna Morrison, senior vice president of customer care and technology services for Choice Hotels International the secret to success was a series of lists and a very specific career map.
Capital Access Ventures, comprised of first-year Smith MBAs Mark Slusser, Anne Engebretsen, Avi Lerner, Susannah Campbell, and Karl Olson, won the Entrepreneur's Choice Award at the Venture Capital Investment Competition (VCIC) Regionals on March 2-4, 2006 in Atlanta. Earlier, the team was selected to represent the Smith School after winning an internal competition held on February 24.
College Park, Md. – February 21, 2006 – Today the University of Marylands Robert H. Smith School of Business announced that Dilip Madan, professor of finance, has been selected to receive a 2006 Alexander von Humboldt Research Award in mathematics. Humboldt Awards are considered among the highest honors given to internationally recognized scholars.
College Park, Md. February 7, 2006 - The Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland today announced that S. Tien Wong, chief executive officer of Opus8, Inc., a Md.-based private investment firm, will join the schools Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship.
Thirty-nine teams of four-to-five part-time MBA students are participating in this year's 2006 Part-time MBA Case Competition. The Grand Prize is $1,000 for each team member. Sixteen teams advanced to the semi-finals, which were held on Friday, February 24, and four teams emerged as finalists.
A group of honors students from the Smith School made Hong Kong their classroom in January, experiencing first-hand how global developments impact business.
Debra L. Shapiro, PhD, a renowned scholar in organizational behavior, has been appointed Clarice Smith Professor of Management and Organization.
Sensitivity to others is more important than ever in a globally networked economy where every day you may work with people whose culture and backgrounds differ from your own.
College Park, Md. January 30, 2006 The MBA program at the University of Marylands Robert H. Smith School of Business is ranked No. 21 among all U.S. MBA programs in the Financial Times MBA 2006rankings, published today. The influential rankings place Smiths MBA program 4th among the top 25 U.S. schools in the value for money category.