CEO@Smith Speaker Series Ted Leonsis, Chairman and Majority Holder Washington Capitals, Washington Mystics and Lincoln Holdings, LLC Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2011, at 6 p.m. 1524 Van Munching Hall University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742

College Park, Md. – January 31, 2011 – The MBA program at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business is ranked No. 18 in the United States in the Financial Times MBA 2011 rankings, published today. The influential rankings place Smith No. 10 in the world for research, the fifth consecutive year in the top 15. The Smith School’s MBA program also comes in as the No.

Global Program Will Focus on Creativity & Innovation, Manufacturing and Services

Beijing, China – January 14, 2011 — The University of Maryland’s Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship at the Robert H. Smith School of Business awarded $10,000 to winners of the 2011 China Business Plan Competition, in partnership with the Guanghua School of Management at Peking University in Beijing.

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.

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.

While Terp fans were getting excited to watch the University of Maryland’s football team compete in the Military Bowl at the end of December, one Robert H. Smith School of Business freshman was getting excited for a bowl competition of his own—the 17th Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl.

Fascinated questions peppered the presentations at the 7th Annual Forum on Financial Information Systems and Cybersecurity at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business on January 19, 2011.

In its newest efforts to go green and promote sustainability, the Robert H. Smith School of Business is trashing its current system for collecting garbage and recycling in Van Munching Hall, in favor of a more environmentally-friendly system.

Gary Swart ’83, CEO of oDesk, made the cover of Inc. magazine in November. Swart and oDesk were featured as part of the magazine’s story on the “demand economy” and entrepreneurs who are providing services and goods to various niche markets.