Smith Profiles

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Name That Tune: Smith Professor Combines Academic Rigor, Entrepreneurial Application and Musical Innovation
Daniel McCarthy
Associate Professor Daniel McCarthy blends rigorous research with creative teaching tools—like music—to make marketing analytics memorable. His focus on customer-based valuation, real-world applications, and student engagement helps transform complex concepts into impactful, real-life learning experiences.

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What Teaching Means to Zeinab Karake
Zeinab Karake
Hailing from a lineage of educators, Maryland Smith’s Zeinab Karake always believed she’d find a career in the classroom. To her, teaching isn’t just a profession, it’s a calling.

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Looking Back With Gratitude–And No Regrets
A sense of vibrancy led by the “energetic Dean Rudy Lamone” and a core of high-quality faculty inspired Michael O. Ball to join the University of Maryland’s College of Business and Management faculty in 1978.

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Meet the Dean
Prabhudev Konana Is Leading with Purpose

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A Passion for Finance Turned into a Mission
Michael Faulkender’s career in finance has been a pursuit of answers to age-old questions: Why are economic decisions made the way they are and how we can make them better?

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Meet Neta Moye, Executive Director of Maryland Smith’s Office of Career Services
Maryland Smith’s Neta Moye says her career path hasn’t exactly been linear, but it has had what she calls her “red thread” running through it, connecting her experiences together, like the ancient Chinese legend of an invisible thread intertwining fate.

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A Passion Discovered Through Timing
Gary Bulmash ’66, MBA ’68, DBA ’74
For Gary Bulmash being in the right place at the right time was the catalyst of his decades-long teaching career. The Maryland Smith professor, who began teaching at the school in the late 1960s while studying in the doctoral program, got his start when a faculty member was hospitalized and sidelined for an entire semester. Bulmash knew he had found his calling.

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Merging Computer Science and Business
Louiqa Raschid, Decision, Operations and Information Technologies (Faculty)
What does computer science have to do with business school? A lot, says Louiqa Raschid, professor of information systems at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business.

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Driven To Make a Difference
Ritu Agarwal’s career in academia is more than a job. To her, it’s a calling and a chance to make a positive impact on the world.

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Leaving Industry and Finding Something More
Adams B. Steven, Assistant Professor of Supply Chain Management
Adams Steven’s career began with a test. “In countries like Sierra Leone, you don’t really choose where you work, but you hope you get the job,” he says. “It’s not uncommon to see people with, say, physics degrees, working with you.”