Thursday, Nov. 13, 2011, 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, Nov. 16, 2011, 7:30 a.m.

Students in the University of Maryland’s Quality Enhancement Systems and Teams (QUEST) honors program are used to making an impact. As part of QUEST’s highly selective, reality-based learning program, they participate in courses focused on cross-functional collaboration, innovation, quality management and teamwork.

Leaders of Fortune 500 company The Home Depot traveled from Atlanta to the University of Maryland on Dec. 12, 2011, to listen to potential solutions to a looming logistical problem.

 

While Occupy Wall Street has attracted growing numbers of college students with encampments emerging on several campuses, its economic-reform motive has prompted a radically different action by undergrads in a Robert H. Smith School of Business finance class at the University of Maryland.The resulting 'New' New Deal: A Pragmatic Approach for Stabilizing an Ailing Economy is a 15-page white paper to reduce the near $15 trillion federal deficit.

For Albert “Al” Carey, CEO of PepsiCo Americas Beverages, Tuesday night’s CEO@Smithpresentation was more than an opportunity to talk about being the CEO of a major company; it was an opportunity to speak with students at his alma mater and to visit the campus of which he has fond memories.

For Albert “Al” Carey, CEO of PepsiCo Americas Beverages, Tuesday night’s CEO @ Smith presentation was more than an opportunity to talk about being the CEO of a major company; it was an opportunity to speak with students at his alma mater and to visit the campus of which he has fond memories.

The Smith School congratulates the first place winners: Kishore Radhakrishnan, Jeff Williamowsky, Asheel Kakkad, Matthew Kannan, Gursean Singh and Aaron Fagan (not pictured) with event organizers Anna Mayr, John Chukundah and Elinda Kiss. Also shown in the photograph are the judges of the competition.

Over 100 professional consultants, students, and alumni gathered at Van Munching Hall in mid-November for the 2011 Consulting Forum, hosted by the MBA Consulting Clubat the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business.

Smith MBAs Fernanda Lopez, Lacey Nguyen, and Stephen Huie won first prize in the Hitachi Pioneer Employer Curriculum Change Competition and Second Prize in the Hitachi Pioneer Employer Case Competition. The Smith team reached the final round, held at the 2011 Net Impact Conference in Portland, OR, in late October, after passing the first rounds last spring. The competition involved a case competition and curriculum change component, both focusing on the strategic human capital management of low-wage workers at the bottom of the ladder.