Two part-time MBA students from the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business won second place in a science and technology entrepreneurship competition with PhareTech, a startup that delivers faster network speeds by consolidating data streams into single fiber-optic cables. “You’re reducing the number of fibers in a system,” said Smith School student Andrew King, PhareTech CEO. “That’s a reduction in labor, installation, maintenance and energy costs.”

On April 12, 2017, three teams of undergraduates at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business competed in the 2017 KPMG Excel Competition at the annual TechFest event. The event is organized by the school’s department of decisions, operations and information technologies and two student clubs: BITS and iTBT.

Brett Hunniecutt, Smith MBA Candidate 2017, writes about the inaugural Data Jam at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business in April 2017. On two consecutive Fridays in April 2017, students from the full-time MBA, MS in information systems and MS in marketing analytics programs competed in the first Data Jam at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business. A Data Jam is a competition in which participants are given a data set and a prompt before being let loose to apply all their creativity and analytical prowess to the problem.

Annie Wolaver, a Smith MBA candidate and graduate assistant in the Center for Social Value Creation, writes about the MBA Lunch and Learn session on April 4, 2017, at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business.

A team of four undergraduates from the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business traveled to Winston-Salem, N.C., in early April 2017 to compete against other business school student teams from around the globe in a highly-selective Marketing Summit. The event, hosted by Wake Forest University’s Center for Retail Innovation, chooses only 14 teams (seven graduate and seven undergraduate teams) from scores of applicant teams and challenges each to research and present their findings and recommendations to solve a marketing case problem.

On April 14, 2017, the Hospitality Business Fellows (HBF) from the Robert H. Smith School of Business visited the Hilton Worldwide corporate headquarters in McLean, Va. Hosts Kimo Kippen, chief learning officer, and Jasmyn Franklin, lead recruiter, introduced Tru by Hilton, the company’s newest brand, which targets millennials with stylish rooms, innovative lobbies and the latest technology.

Please join us as the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business presents the Seventh Annual Emerging Markets Forum, Friday, April 21, at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, D.C.

Smith student Philip Peker ’18 writes about the Emerging CFO Case Competition which took place on April 17, 2017, at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business. Five teams of undergraduates in the Finance Fellows program at the Smith School competed on April 7 in the Emerging CFO Case Competition. The event was organized by Susan White, clinical professor of finance and the Finance Fellows faculty champion, and the students were presented with a case entitled, INFINITI HR – Target or Acquirer?

Smith student Philip Peker ’18 writes about the Third Annual Real Life Real Talk Conference, held on April 6, 2017, at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business.

On March 31, 2017, a score of finance students from the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business travelled with David Kass, clinical professor of finance, to Charlottesville, Va., to visit the CFA Institute. The students received a brief overview of the global association, whose mission is to set “the highest standards of ethics, education and professional excellence in the industry.” The CFA has close to 150,000 members around the world.