More than 175 people gathered in Frank Auditorium in the Robert H. Smith School of Business’ Van Munching Hall on Feb. 22, 2011 to attend a CEO @ Smith session with Pradman Kaul, president and CEO of Hughes Communications, Inc.

Students, faculty and staff crammed into Van Munching Hall’s Frank Auditorium on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2011 with one goal in mind: Listening to Ted Leonsis speak about what it is like to own several Washington-based sports teams, including the Washington Capitals and the Washington Wizards.

Word of warning to employers: Don’t make the mistake of thinking the economy and job market have left people captive in their current jobs. Employee satisfaction is key to whether people stay with an organization, and whether they are fully engaged at work. However, it’s not just how satisfied employees are that matters – it is also whether satisfaction is on the rise or trending down that offers clues to whether employees are planning to stay at or leave a firm.

A team of undergraduate students from Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland participated in the 21st Wake Forest Marketing Summit - Undergraduate Case Challenge, sponsored by VF Corporation. The competition was held at Wake Forest University on February 3, 2011 and the other schools participating were Emory University, Northeastern University, Brigham Young University, and University of Pennsylvania. The case focused on developing strategies to use the digital ecosystem to drive sales and build loyalty for the VF Corporation's Nautica® brand.

College Park, Md. – January 18, 2011 – The Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB), the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland (Smith) and the School of Management, Zhejiang University (Zhejiang, China), today jointly announced the launch of a global senior management program that will have business leaders traveling to each country to learn the keys to successful innovation in each market.

College Park, Md. – January 10, 2011 — The Center for Social Value Creation at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business is expanding its Grassroots.org Social Venture Consulting Program in partnership with Grassroots.org, an organization that provides free technologies and resources to nonprofits. The innovative experiential learning program matches MBA students with nonprofit organizations around the country for semester-long consulting projects. Make Change!

College Park, Md. – January 5, 2011 – The University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business has partnered with the Gettysburg Foundation to develop customized leadership programs that integrate lessons from the historic Civil War battle. The intensely experiential programs will push participants to think differently about individual and organizational challenges through engagement in action-oriented sessions, both on the renowned Pennsylvania battlefield and in the classroom.

The Center for Financial Policy at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business partnered with the Salomon Center for the Study of Financial Institutions at the NYU Stern School of Business for a daylong conference on “The GSEs, Housing & the Economy” on January 24, 2011, in Washington, D.C. The conference brought together leading academic experts and policymakers to address issues facing government sponsored enterprises (GSEs) and effects on the housing industry and the macro economy. Keynote speakers were Rep.

Thursday, Feb. 24, 2010, 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, Feb. 27, 2010, 7:30 a.m. Leadership Lessons from the Battlefield to the Boardroom     As one of the most well-documented and studied battles in American history, the Battle of Gettysburg offers a rich set of characters, personalities, and examples of leadership decision-making that resonate in many organizations even today.

Ted Leonsis, Chairman and Majority HolderWashington Capitals, Washington Mystics and Lincoln Holdings, LLCWednesday, Feb. 16, 2011 at 6 p.m.1524 Van Munching HallUniversity of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742