Distinguished Speakers in International Business Series and CEO @ Smith Present: CEO of EY, Carmine Di Sibio

Carmine Di Sibio assumed his role of CEO and global chairman at EY in July 2019, rising to the top spot after more than 30 years with the company. He leads the 280,000 employees who provide consulting, assurance, tax and transaction services in more than 150 countries. This event is the latest in the CEO @ Smith speaker series, co-hosted with Maryland Smith's Center for Global Business.

We will expand the discussion of accrual accounting to specific areas of a company’s business and explore the key differences between a company’s income statement and its cash flow statement. We also will review concepts of financial analysis and use analytical tools that use accounting information to assess the financial health of a company.

The LGBT Equity Center will collaborate with the Department of Resident Life to provide an LGBTQ+ Affinity Space. This is a great way to connect with staff and peers before the semester starts up. The atmosphere is relaxed and informal. We just want to get to know you! 

P. K. Kannan, Dean's Chair in Marketing Science, will briefly introduce how consumer behavior has changed during the pandemic and what the implications are for marketing strategies in the short term and the longer term.

Learn how marketing/retailing has been affected and what he sees as structural changes. How should firms orient themselves going forward? Which trends are going to dominate, which media will have higher importance and which media's importance will wane? He will cover implications for customer focus, digital marketing and marketing budgets.

How to create a strategy that maximizes flexibility and captures opportunities no matter what the future brings? Strategic plans are always about the future. Therefore, you can’t build a great strategy without a better understanding of the immediate and distant future of your industry, your competitors, your customers and the world at large. This webinar shows you how to find opportunities locally and globally by discovering early warning signals and capitalizing on trends before your competitors do.

The Hispanic Heritage Foundation, the Friends of the National Museum of the American Latino, and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute invite you to a virtual tertulia to get to know Luis Ubiñas, American investor, businessman, and philanthropist.

Luis Ubiñas is the chairman-elect of the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, which under his leadership will focus on an accurate representation of the American immigration experience from this country’s earliest days to the present.

Launched this year, the Smith Summer Reading and Dialogue Series is an anti-racist reading club that features poetry and literature written by Black and anti-racist poets and authors. Its intent is to dedicate the necessary time and space to engage deeply in these important topics.

Homework:
Read "White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism" by Robin DiAngelo.

Join us to learn all about net worth, FICO scores, and how to build an effective spending plan from Paul Roldan and Karen Vergara from AllGen Financial Advisors. We will also have a special guest, blogger and YouTube personality, Vivi Schenk — her story will surely inspire you in your path to financial wellness.

Hosted by Nationwide and the Hispanic Heritage Foundation.

Global Trade During COVID 19: WTO Response

Join Kislaya Prasad, academic director of the Center for Global Business as he hosts Emmanuelle Ganne of the World Trade Organization to discuss the "Global Trade During COVID 19: WTO Response." Topics to be discussed include how global trade has been impacted by the pandemic, WTO's responses worldwide, tools it has to support the economic recovery, and how countries are thinking about the future of trade, through the lens of an expert from the WTO. 

About the Speaker

Join the Maryland Smith community on July 23, 2020, at 2 p.m. EST, for a discussion on how society and the business landscape may change as a result of COVID-19. The discussion will include experts in the areas of organizational behavior and understanding customer needs, including aligning solutions with the customer's new normal. Advice to help businesses grow in this new environment will also be shared during the discussion.