Grab your lunch and get ready to listen! The Smith Analytics Consortium is pleased to invite you to the first-ever Alumni Lunch & Learn on February 12, 2021, from Noon to 1 p.m. Our first speaker is Athena Abbott who is the director of pharma data product strategy & customer success at CVS Health.
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Committed to creating an innovative team? Want to learn why your (or your team’s) creative ideas seem to go nowhere? Ready to learn about the roadblocks to innovation?
Join Maryland Smith professor Vijaya Venkataramani, associate professor of management & organization, as she discusses her research about creativity in the workplace. This interactive discussion will include a short presentation followed by time for participants to ask questions.
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Join the Smith alumni community for a webinar designed to help with your financial goals for 2021. The webinar will cover how to plan and achieve your financial goals in 2021 and provide attendees with important financial updates and tips for the New Year. Information will be presented for alumni at all career levels. The discussion will feature Smith alumni Ben Offit '09 and May Jiang '12 of Offit Advisors.
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How do you define being an ally, partner, accomplice or co-conspirator? Join the Smith community to learn more about what it means to show up as an ally.
Smith alumni panelists will share examples of effective and ineffective forms of allyship at work. Moderated by Jeanette Snider, Ph.D., associate director of undergraduate programs, this open discussion will provide steps on how to navigate moments where you can show up in the workplace for your team and colleagues.
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That Next Career Move, With ‘Terps Helping Terps’
When there’s an important job opening in your organization, you want the hiring team to find the best candidates with the experience, skills and knowledge to be successful on the job. Terps Helping Terps can help. “With Terps Helping Terps, we really wanted to create an ecosystem of engaged professionals,” says Stephen Bennett, director of employment development and alumni engagement at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business.
Pines, Announcing Plan To Honor Athletics Trailblazers, Thanks Kevin Plank
Later this year, the University of Maryland plans to open its stellar new facility at Cole Field House. And though it won’t bear the name of Kevin Plank, the founder and executive chairman of Under Armour and 1996 Smith alumnus was instrumental in making it happen.
Raise a Glass to Finding Your Passion – And Not Looking Back
Russ Lorber, MBA ’02, had always had an entrepreneurial interest, but for many years, he wasn’t sure what to do with it. In 25 years in finance and business operations, he had traveled the world, learning business cultures, supply chains, and sometimes, visiting winemakers. In 2020, he made the leap, ending a two-decade career with W.R. Grace, and launching a startup. That’s how the Baltimore-based Wide Roots wine-importing company was born.
Maryland Smith To Host Tenth Annual Women Inspire Event
At Maryland Smith, Women’s History Month will be off to a strong start. On March 4, the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business will host Women Inspire. Now in its 10th year, the annual event celebrates alumnae leaders in business and encourages attendees to strive to reach their full potential.
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Get in the holiday spirit with BlueDyer Distilling Co.! Join Smith alumni and friends for a virtual mixology event. Stir up the drinks in your most festive attire along with our hosts or just watch! There will be a contest for the best Smith Terp drink with prizes and an opportunity to win a bottle of Blue Dyer spirits! There will be a non-alcoholic option for at least one of the drinks.
This event is brought to you by the Smith alumni chapter board and is part of the Unlocking Experiences event series.
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