The Smith School’s Office of Career Services (OCS) opened its new Career Center on September 15 with an open house for employers, faculty and students. The new center will help the school make key connections, create partnerships and build relationships with corporations to help companies meet their recruiting goals and students achieve their career aspirations.

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. Jason LeGrand, director of the West Region in University of Maryland’s University Relations department, assisted in developing and managing the innovation immersion experience.

Recent alumni of the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business Christos Marafatsos and Kosta Dionisopoulous launched Delta Produce in 2009 with a strategic detailed approach to penetrate and innovate in the perishable food industry – a sector valued at over $2 billion in the Washington, D.C., metro area alone.

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.