Kevin Li, class of 2019 marketing and information systems double major, writes about the Global Young Professional’s Institute on Nov. 10, 2017, at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business. What would you do if you had a whole new culture? Freshmen Smith students tackled this question at the Global Young Professional’s Institute on Nov. 10 at the Samuel Riggs IV Alumni Center on campus. This event was lead in part by the Center for Global Business and was the final event of the Smith Start program for the fall semester.

Factors and implications surrounding the financial crisis of 2008 was the focus of a recent presentation by Martin J. Gruenberg, chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, hosted by the Center for Financial Policy at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business. Smith Professor of Finance Haluk Ünal introduced Gruenberg to students, faculty and staff gathered in the Frank Auditorium for the Nov. 3, 2017 event, titled “The Financial Crisis and its Aftermath.”

The University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business sponsored eight undergraduate students, four from UMD and four from partner institution Bowie State University, to the 2017 CIBER Case Challenge hosted by the University of Connecticut. The competition, which took place Oct. 11-15, 2017, included student representatives from universities across the world. Students were organized on teams with participants from other U.S. and international universities and tackled an international business case over the course of the weekend.

Fasika Delessa '18 writes about her experience attending the Net Impact Conference at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Ga., Oct 26-28, 2017.

Join the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business as we celebrate International Education Week (IEW), Nov. 13-17, 2017. The worldwide event is a joint initiative of the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education to celebrate international education and exchange.

Save-A-Lot executives did more than listen to a capstone project from online MBA students at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business. The supermarket chain created a new position and offered it to team member Anthony Botos, OMBA ’17.

Kevin Li, class of 2019 marketing and information systems double major, writes about the annual "Sophs'mores" event on Oct. 27, 2017, at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business. What could be better than delicious desserts or playful puns? How about both at the same time? The Robert H. Smith School of Business celebrated its sophomore class at its annual Sophs’mores event on Oct. 27 with scrumptious s’mores, networking opportunities and eager upperclassmen ready to share some words of advice.

Meals on Wheels America CEO Ellie Hollander sent an email thanking six part-time MBA students at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business for their contributions to fight hunger. “We were impressed with your quick grasp of our business, ability to synthesize a broad range of information in such a short amount of time, and efforts to immerse yourselves in our more-than-a-meal model and surface some innovative approaches to expanding our volunteer base,” Hollander wrote in her message.

About 230 undergraduates in the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business exercised and built on their accounting, marketing and management wherewithal in a Smith Live Case event on Oct. 10, 2017. Unilever and the Smith School’s Office of Transformational Learning collaborated to organize separate sessions in Tyser Auditorium, where students broke out into small teams to simulate Unilever managers estimating market demand and determining a pricing strategy for a new, dry spray antiperspirant.

Brett Prescott earned dual degrees in finance and economics from the University of Maryland, has a successful career in marketing and came back to College Park last week to share his experience with current undergraduates and be a part of the Terps’ Homecoming Weekend. During a “Lunch & Learn” on Oct. 27, 2017, a classroom-full of interested business students at the Robert H.