Smith Profiles

Alumni Profile

A Global Journey That Opens Doors

Iris Lan, MBA ’20

Sometimes, it’s a journey halfway around the world that opens doors all the way back home.

Iris Lan, MBA ’20, says that’s what happened for her when she left China to pursue an MBA at Maryland Smith.

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Faculty Profile

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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Alumni Profile

Leading with Self-Awareness and An Open Mind

Chris Steadley, MBA ’12

Chris Steadley, MBA ’12, has consistently used his global mindset in his eight-plus years at advisory and research services firm Gartner. His current role as a senior partner in consulting includes managing business in the Midwest region of the U.S.

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Alumni Profile

Reading Minds: Part Magic, Part Business Acumen

Max Major '05 can read your mind. It's a passion he parlayed into the only career he ever really considered. While at Maryland Smith, he honed his entrepreneurial skills to build a business as a renowned mentalist.

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Alumni Profile

Utilizing an Appreciation for Diversity to Lead an International Organization

Each of the seven global mindset competencies is integral to Mark Lenhart’s MBA ’00 work as executive director of study abroad organization CET Academic Programs. As a manager and leader, he finds self-awareness and humility to be a particularly important competency.

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Alumni Profile

How Cultural Curiosity and Relationship Building Adds Value to Research

Erika Hall ’07, assistant professor of organization and management at Emory University’s Goizueta Business School, studied finance at Maryland Smith while maintaining an interest in entrepreneurship.

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Faculty Profile

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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Alumni Profile

Smith Grad Recognized as Leader in Diversity

Andy Kim, MBA ’20

For Andy Kim, MBA ’20, the desire to make banking a better experience for Korean speakers runs deep.

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Alumni Profile

Leading Through Understanding

Approaching cultural differences with curiosity and openness is fundamental to leading with a global mindset.

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Alumni Profile

Removing Fear from the Equation

People with a global mindset have spent time understanding, accepting and leveraging similarities and differences among cultures and business practices.

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