June 2010 Event Explores How B-Schools Can Lead Through Innovation

College Park, Md. – January 25, 2010 – The MBA program at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business is ranked No. 20 in the United States in the Financial Times MBA 2010 rankings, published today. The influential rankings place Smith No. 14 in the world for research, the fourth consecutive year in the top 15.

College Park, Md. – January 25, 2010 – The MBA program at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business is ranked No. 20 in the United States in the Financial Times MBA 2010 rankings, published today. The influential rankings place Smith No. 14 in the world for research, the fourth consecutive year in the top 15.

College Park, Md. January 15, 2010 - Students from the United States and China took home a real-world lesson in global entrepreneurship with an innovative course that partnered the University of Maryland's leading Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship with the Guanghua School of Management at Peking University in Beijing. MBA students from the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business competed against their counterparts in China in a contest to present the best business plan pitch.

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On December 10, 2009, 300 people packed the University of Maryland's Samuel Riggs IV Alumni Center for the Annual Brumberger Innovation & Consulting Conference held by the                    

College Park, Md. – December 2, 2009 – The University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business will host the Graduate Business Forum’s 28th annual Graduate Business Conference in Washington, D.C., April 15-17, 2010. The three-day conference brings together MBA student government leaders from the top business schools worldwide to exchange best practices and learn from and network with business and political leaders.

he 2009 Winter Commencement for the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, will be held at 1 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 20, 2009, in the Comcast Center. This semester, 145 undergraduate students, 129 Master of Business Administration students, 1 Executive Master of Business Administration student, and 5 Doctoral students will be graduating from the Smith School. Bob L. Johnson, the chief service officer for Sprint, will be the commencement speaker. Johnson is a University of Maryland alumnus and the co-chair of the Smith School Advisory Board.

The part-time MBA program at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business was ranked No. 30 in the nation by BusinessWeek in the magazine’s 2009 ranking released Nov. 5. Smith’s program for working professionals is offered evenings and weekends at Smith campuses in Washington, D.C., Baltimore and Shady Grove (Rockville, Md.).

College Park, Md. – October 19, 2009 – The Executive MBA program at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business places No. 21 among EMBA programs in the United States in the 2009Financial Times executive education rankings, published today. In addition, the Smith School was ranked No. 50 in the world and No. 9 globally for faculty research, an area of strength for which the school is consistently recognized as a leader.