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Female enrollment lags in MBA programs across the United States, but the Smith School has pledged to close the gap in all of its graduate programs within five years.
The Smith School is introducing a set of 15-credit minors to equip University of Maryland students with business skills and entrepreneurial savvy.
General business and a second minor, innovation and entrepreneurship, will open in fall 2015 for up to 180 UMD undergraduates in each program, complementing a recently launched business analytics minor.
A formal receiving line awaited dinner guests on June 3, 2014, in a scene inspired by the PBS series Downton Abbey. “You can never be too classy,” explained the host, Charles Olson, Professor of the Practice and Director of the Business Honors Program at the Smith School.
John “Jack” McClean ’66 was honored by Providence Volunteer Fire Company for 50 years of continuous service.
’70sEric Billings ’77 has retired as CEO of Arlington Asset Investment Corp. (formerly known as Friedman, Billings, Ramsey Group).
Companies guilty of accounting trickery don’t want Howard Schilit, MBA ’76, PhD ’81, anywhere near their books.
Tiny unmanned aircrafts will soon swarm your neighborhood delivering everything from hot burritos to medical prescriptions. Fulfillment will take minutes instead of days or hours, and big commercial carriers will face pressure to adapt or die. That’s the promise of some visionaries.
Few companies can match the recent global expansion of the Tata Group, which owns brands such as Jaguar, Land Rover, Taj Hotels and Good Earth Teas.
Why do we commonly think of the family and the capitalist market as mutually exclusive domains? Many see the family as the realm of love and intimacy and the market as the realm of self-interested individuals. But in fact, the two have always been deeply inter-related.
The football field wasn’t the only place Terrapins quarterback CJ Brown, MS ’15, faced pressure to deliver during the team’s inaugural Big Ten season in 2014.
A new $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education will fund Smith’s Center for International Business Education and Research through 2018.