Students Use the Environment As Their Classroom in Spain

This past winter-term, 20 students at the University of Maryland had the opportunity to learn about design and innovation in the Spanish context. While in Spain, students had a full itinerary of company visits, workshops and cultural activities. In Barcelona, they visited the iconic La Sagrada Familia, took a guided tour of the gothic quarter, and even had the opportunity to meet with local business students. In the capital city of Madrid, students took time to reflect in Retiro Park and enjoyed traditional Spanish tapas.

The Hidden Costs of Not Taking Vacations

SMITH BRAIN TRUST – Americans are known to be good at many things. Vacationing isn't one of them. Year after year, workplace surveys reveal that millions of American workers failed to take their allotted vacation days. And increasingly, the overriding reason is fear.

'Golden Era' for Women Entrepreneurs

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — The global proportion of women among the planet's billionaires is still shy of 3 percent. That's a slim minority, but the proportion has tripled in the past decade. And as Forbes recently documented, 56 of these women are self-made billionaires — an increase from 42 in 2016.

Vive la France: The Case for Ignoring After-Work Emails

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — If you reflexively check your work email before you’re even out of bed in the morning, and just before you close your eyes to sleep, and at nonstop intervals in between, this story is for you.

C-Suite Vacancies Are Coming; Can Millennials Fill Them?

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — How well could your organization handle a surprise vacancy in the C-suite? Perhaps not well at all.

Gerald Suarez Talks Leadership with Smith Undergrads

Undergraduate students in the new Management and Organization Society at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business got a lesson in leadership from J. Gerald Suarez, Professor of the Practice in systems thinking and design and a leadership fellow at the Center for Leadership, Innovation and Change (CLIC).

Millennials Associate Public Service with 'Stagnant Institutions'

SMITH BRAIN TRUST -- The proportion of federal employees under age 30 has shrunk from 9.1 percent in 2010 to 6.6 percent in 2014.

Four Steps to Unleash a Leader of One

SMITH BRAIN TRUST -- Do not wait for permission to be a leader. J. Gerald Suarez, Smith School Professor of the Practice in Systems Thinking and Design, says individuals can take charge of their future and act as leaders, regardless of their positions within an organization.

Smith Business Close-Up: Becoming a “Leader of One”

Thursday, July 31, 2014, 7:30 p.m. | Sunday, August 3, 2014, 7:30 a.m.

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