Welcome to The Smith Report, a short audio podcast that will help keep you informed about current news and events at the Smith School. The podcast is less than 10 minutes long and is produced by the Office of Marketing Communications. Smith MBAs take on a variety of challenging internships over the summer to build their skills and make professional connections. In this issue of the Smith Report, Tom Fisher, MBA Candidate 2014, tells us about working as a financial analyst intern at Campbell's Soup in New Jersey.

The Smith School is committed to offering entrepreneurship courses and weaving innovative thinking throughout the curriculum for all students. Case in point: “REAL660,” (#Real660), an MBA course that has students creating and running real businesses in a seven-week class. You can watch the drama unfold in a multi-part video series we’ll feature here for the next five weeks as part of our Innovation Fridays coverage.

REAL660: Getting schooled in entrepreneurship Webisode 4 The Smith School is committed to offering entrepreneurship courses and weaving innovative thinking throughout the curriculum for all students. Case in point: “REAL660,” (#Real660), an MBA course that has students creating and running real businesses in a seven-week class. You can watch the drama unfold in a multi-part video series we’ll feature here for the next five weeks as part of our Innovation Fridays coverage.

REAL660: Getting schooled in entrepreneurship Webisode 3 The Smith School is committed to offering entrepreneurship courses and weaving innovative thinking throughout the curriculum for all students. Case in point: “REAL660,” (#Real660), an MBA course that has students creating and running real businesses in a seven-week class. You can watch the drama unfold in a multi-part video series we’ll feature here for the next five weeks as part of our Innovation Fridays coverage.

The Smith School is committed to offering entrepreneurship courses and weaving innovative thinking throughout the curriculum for all students. Case in point: “REAL660,” (#Real660), an MBA course that has students creating and running real businesses in a seven-week class. You can watch the drama unfold in a multi-part video series we’ll feature here for the next five weeks as part of our Innovation Fridays coverage.

MBA students at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business hosted the Third Annual Smith's Got Talent showcase on Thursday, April 18,2013, outside of Van Munching Hall. The entire community came to watch the talent show, which was opened by The Smith Experience Graduation Showcase. The Smith Experience is six credits of experiential learning that can be taken across the five areas: consulting, global, social value creation, investing, and entrepreneurship.

On a beautiful spring evening last week (April 18, 2013), MBA students, deans, faculty, and staff of the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School gathered outside of Van Munching Hall in Mayer Mall for the Third Annual Smith’s Got Talent event. See photos on Facebook

REAL660: Getting schooled in entrepreneurship Webisode 1 -- Do you have what it takes? The Smith School is committed to offering entrepreneurship courses and weaving innovative thinking throughout the curriculum for all students. Case in point: “REAL660,” (#Real660), an MBA course that has students creating and running real businesses in a seven-week class. You can watch the drama unfold in a multi-part video series we’ll feature here for the next five weeks as part of our Innovation Fridays coverage.

A blaze kills several workers at the Indonesia subsidiary of a multinational food company already facing a developing attack from a rainforest protection network. The fictitious scenario (another involved a pharmaceutical company linked to mercury contamination in India) framed part of a Feb. 22 "Leadership under Fire 2013" competition at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business.

MBA students at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business represented more than 16 countries and four continents as they celebrated the Fourth Annual International Night, Feb. 21, 2013.