Mars presents alternative business model for achieving financial, social and human capital Varun Saxena, Smith MBA Candidate 2019, writes about the Corporate Sustainability and Innovation event on Sept. 5, 2017, with Jay Jakub, senior director for external research at Mars, Incorporated. The event was hosted by the Center for Social Value Creation at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business.

COLLEGE PARK, Md. (Aug. 23, 2017) — Four undergraduate students from the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business produced research for a new Social Enterprise Ecosystems Report, released Aug. 16 in collaboration with Deloitte, Capital One and Halcyon Incubator in Washington, D.C.

What makes your heart pump? When do you feel like you’re in the zone? What type of work makes you feel the most you? These are all questions that 100 rising eighth graders answered when they visited the University of Maryland this summer to learn about social innovation.

Welcome to Terps with Purpose, a web series from the Center for Social Value Creation featuring undergraduates, MBA students and alumni working to create social, environmental and economic prosperity through their careers. Follow along with us this summer to learn more about their career journeys and the impact they have had along the way. Introducing the second featured Terp with Purpose: Sarina Haryanto.

A delegation of female business leaders from Latin America visited the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business on July 13, 2017, as part of the Women’s Entrepreneurship in the Americas (WEAmericas) initiative in the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP), the U.S. Department of State’s premier professional exchange program. The visit to the Smith School was organized by the World Trade Center Institute (WTCI) in Baltimore, Md.

Welcome to Terps with Purpose, a web series from the Center for Social Value Creation featuring undergraduates, MBA students and alumni working to create social and environmental prosperity through their careers. Follow along with us this summer to learn more about their career journeys and the impact they have had along the way.

SMITH BRAIN TRUST – The BBC's "Doctor Who" series has long embraced the idea of change. It's been written into the script for years, with the timelord protagonist's biological ability for regeneration and new incarnations.

Big ideas, the ones capable of fundamentally changing the planet, could come from anywhere, says Crista Gibbons, vice president of client solutions, strategy and operations at National Geographic. Gibbons, who graduated from the part-time MBA program at University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business in 2004, leads a new initiative at National Geographic, called “Chasing Genius.”

By: Sam Harris, Marketing and Information Systems, Class of 2018Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland It’s not easy to land that dream summer internship. In fact, it can be downright difficult to find a gig that is a perfect fit.

The University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business is excited to announce some favorite books in the 14th Annual Top-10 Summer Reading List for Business Leaders for 2017, as recommended by faculty members. (1) The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed Our Minds By Michael Lewis (2016)