The Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland will celebrate Black History Month 2019 with a series of events featuring African American business leaders and entrepreneurs. Each week in February, Victor Mullins, Maryland Smith’s associate dean of undergraduate programs and Chief Diversity Officer, will sit down with featured guests to talk about their career paths, the challenges they’ve faced and their advice on making it in the business world.

Educator, philanthropist and retired bank executive William Longbrake, DBA ’76, has pledged $1 million to support the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business. The unrestricted gift will provide flexibility to the school, where Longbrake serves as Executive-in-Residence and a member of the Board of Advisors.

MBA Alumna Will Be Honored at Women Leading Women COLLEGE PARK, Md. (Jan. 24, 2019) — Business leader and philanthropist Carly Fiorina, a 1980 MBA graduate of the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, will be the honored guest at the eighth annual Women Leading Women forum on March 5, 2019, in College Park, Md.

Maryland Smith students in the Business Management class at the Universities of Shady Grove are staging a Winter Bazaar Crafts Fair from 10 a.m.–3 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 8 at the Universities at Shady Grove, 9630 Gudelsky Drive, Building II, Rockville.  The public is invited to participate in winter-themed activities and purchase unique products from local craft creators and businesses. Participants can get their gifts wrapped and decorate holiday cards, Santa hats, stockings and dreidels. The event also includes a prize raffle and kids can take photos with Santa.

The University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business is tied for No. 24 in the newly released Americas 2018 Top 25 Business School Rankings from Financial Times. The report, which scores schools throughout North and South America, combines full-time MBA, executive MBA and executive education data. The Financial Times ranks Maryland Smith’s full-time MBA program No. 27 and its executive MBA program No. 23 in the Americas.

Terps worldwide showed why they are #UMDSmithProud during the second annual Smith Day on Nov. 14, 2018. Groups gathered at four regional campuses of the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business to celebrate. Additional alumni gatherings took place around the United States and internationally in London and Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen, China.

Join the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business as we celebrate International Education Week (IEW) from November 12-16, 2018. This worldwide event is a joint initiative of the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education to promote programs that prepare Americans for a global environment and attract future leaders from abroad to study, learn, and exchange experiences.

The Executive MBA program at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business is ranked No. 7 among U.S. programs and 16th in the world by the Economist in its 2018 EMBA ranking report, released July 2. In the previous such rankings, issued by The Economist in 2015, Smith was No. 24 globally and 15th among U.S. schools.

COLLEGE PARK, Md. - The University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business is teaming up with the Gettysburg Foundation to deliver an executive development program built around and using lessons from the Battle of Gettysburg, the Civil War, and Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. 

Poets & Quants’ “Best & Brightest Executive MBAs: Class of 2018” features Chintan Fafadia and Maurice Andrew Malcolm representing the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business. Fafadia, who grew up in Mumbai, India, is PCTEL’s director of product management for RF solutions. Malcolm, raised by Jamaican-immigrant parents in Columbia, Maryland, is managing principal of the healthcare division at Dasidual Management Services in Columbia.