Join the Office of Undergraduate Studies at the Robert H. Smith School of Business as it hosts the second annual Baseball Industry Network Networking Night on April 26, 2012. The event will take place in Frank Auditorium (1524) in Van Munching Hall at 6 p.m. Tyrone Brooks ’96, Director of Player Personnel for the Pittsburgh Pirates, joins Smith again this year as the host of the networking night and panel discussion for members of the Baseball Industry Network as well as students from the University of Maryland.

Financial regulators, policymakers, academic researchers, private sector professionals, and IMF/World Bank country delegates gathered on April 17, 2012 to discuss the future of financial regulation. The roundtable co-hosted by the Center for Financial Policy at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business and the Monetary and Capital Markets Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), preceded the IMF-World Bank Spring Meetings in Washington, DC.

Bruce Richards knows a thing or two about making a hedge fund stand out from the crowd. Richards, co-managing partner and CEO of top-50 hedge fund Marathon Asset Management, spoke at the Robert H. Smith School of Business to an audience of students, faculty, staff and alumni eager to learn his tricks of the trade. The program, “An Insider’s View of How to Manage a Multi-billion Dollar Hedge Fund,” was sponsored by the Center for Financial Policy, and took place on Monday, March 12, 2012, in Van Munching Hall.

Gary Loveman knows how to handle a packed house. In fact, his business thrives on it. A former associate professor at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration, Loveman is now chairman, CEO and president of Caesars Entertainment Corporation. And in his casinos, there are often crowds of 30,000 per night. On March 6, 2012, Loveman spoke to a packed house of students, faculty and staff at the Robert H. Smith School of Business as the final part of the school’s CEO@Smith Speaker Series.

Please join us for a Federal Risk Roundtable Series in downtown, Washington, D.C. Date April 25, 2012 Time 8:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Location Ronald Reagan Building & International Trade CenterSmith School Suite – Concourse Level1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.Washington, D.C. 20004 Featured Speakers:

A team of undergraduate students from the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business competed with teams from around the country at the 22nd Annual Marketing Summit presented by Wake Forest University in February 2012, ultimately placing second and winning a cash prize of $3,000. Prannoy Nambiar is a Smith School senior and one part of the four-person team that competed this year. He says case competitions complement classroom learning.

The Social Enterprise Symposium may only be in its fourth year, but it has become one of the biggest and most anticipated events of the year for members of the University of Maryland community. This year’s super-sized event – on March 1, 2012, from noon to 9 p.m. — drew approximately 1,200 people all coming together with the goal of creating a better world through business.

Each January dozens of students from the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business use the winter break to their best advantage and embark on global immersion study trips around the world. Read about the January 2012 trip to Singapore and Malaysia with faculty advisor Dr. Mark Wellman in the words of Smith School undergraduate student Douglas M. Kletter.

Recently, the University of Maryland at College Park pledged to the U.S. Secretary of Commerce to create 100 new tech companies based on UMD-owned intellectual property (IP). The promise is in an April 2011 letter co-signed by more than 130 other national research institutions.

The MBA community at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business is eagerly awaiting the celebration of one of the school’s long held traditions: International Week, Feb 20-23, 2012. Smith students come from a variety of backgrounds: approximately 40 percent of MBAs come from outside of the United States, including China, India, Kenya, Nigeria, Spain, Taiwan, Thailand, and Venezuela.