College Park, Md. – September 6, 2011 — The Center for Social Value Creation at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business named six prominent business leaders to form its advisory board. The center launched in September 2009 with a mission to create and educate global leaders to use business as a vehicle for social and environmental change.

College Park, Md. – September 6, 2011 — The Center for Social Value Creation at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business named six prominent business leaders to form its advisory board. The center launched in September 2009 with a mission to create and educate global leaders to use business as a vehicle for social and environmental change.

The innovation immersion experience was part of the College Park Scholars Business, Society and Economy program at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business. Established by Dr. Mark Wellman, director of the Business, Society and Economy Program, the innovation experience helped students better understand how firms compete and use innovation to create sustainable competitive advantages.

Passersby may have thought that a rock star or presidential candidate was en route to Van Munching Hall’s Frank Auditorium on the evening of Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2011. The crowds were lined up out the door to see the top exec of PricewaterhouseCoopers, Bob Moritz, for the first CEO @ Smith speaker series event of the academic year. Registration was cut off at 300, but estimates are that 600 showed up to hear Moritz’s speech, which was broadcast live to two overflow classrooms and the Van Munching Hall’s Pownall Grand Atrium plasmas.

It’s just a game, but the bragging rights last a lifetime. The capstone project for the executive MBA program at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business is a business simulation game (BizSim for short) that allows students to put all of the business skills they learned over the 19-month program into play. The game, called “Marketplace,” from Innovative Learning Solutions, has strict deadlines and requires rapid decision making – it makes for a very exciting and intense final week and is always a highlight of the Smith EMBA experience.

It’s just a game, but the bragging rights last a lifetime. The capstone project for the executive MBA program at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business is a business simulation game (BizSim for short) that allows students to put all of the business skills they learned over the 19-month program into play.

College Park, Md. – June 28, 2011 -- The University of Maryland Center of Excellence in Health IT Research (Center) a multi-campus initiative with collaboration across the College Park and Baltimore campuses, awarded $15,000 in funding to each of two teams working on promising health information technologies as part of the inaugural Health IT Seed Grant Program. The investments demonstrate the University of Maryland’s commitment to advancing innovation and research to accelerate the transformation of the nation’s health care system.

The business of Italian design and culture was the theme of a recent global study trip where 18 undergraduates from the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business accompanied marketing lecturer Mary Harms through Rome, Florence and Milan. The May 2011 program's activities were a blend of presentations by Italian businesses, guided historical site and museum visits and class discussions, in addition to first-hand observations of Italian design and culture.

Fulbright recipient and Smith alumna Kara Marston ’07 is venturing back to her roots to study the status of women in Armenia. Marston, who is half Armenian and nearly fluent in the language, is one of four 2011-12 Fulbright recipients at the Robert H. Smith School of Business. She will spend September to July abroad. “I’ve always been really tied to my roots,” Marston said of her decision to apply for a Fulbright scholarship to Armenia. “I went in 2007 and volunteered with a media company, and again in 2009 to volunteer again.”