Medical Experts Represent Maryland Smith Among Poets & Quants’ Best and Brightest EMBAs for 2020
Kimberly Lumpkins and Patricia Turner, representing the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, are featured among the world’s “Best and Brightest Executive MBA Graduates” in the class of 2020, by Poets & Quants, the digital news outlet dedicated to global coverage of business education.
Maryland Smith’s Merrill Presidential Scholar Honorees
Students Reflect on Mentors Suarez, Kudisch and Bailey. And Vice Versa Three pairs of Maryland Smith students-faculty mentors were recognized in a recent event honoring this year’s graduating class of University of Maryland Philip Merrill Presidential Scholars. The program further cited a K-12 teacher-mentor of each scholar:
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.