First Ever Smith Analytics Conference Coming April 21
The Robert H. Smith School of Business is hosting the first ever Smith Analytics Conference on April 21, 2017. The day-long forum is set to feature speakers from industry, government and academia who will discuss topics such as big data, business intelligence, predictive analytics, key performance indicators, risk analysis and marketing research. Continue reading…
Smith School’s Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship Launches Bootstrapped Podcast
New media is everywhere, and comes in some many new forms — Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram, Apple News. Nowadays media, news and information is now delivered in every imaginable way across a plethora of internet platforms. Another example of new media on the rise is the podcast — essentially the internet age’s take on terrestrial radio.
Podcast rose to prominence and gained popularity thanks to groundbreaking journalism from “Serial”, storytelling like “This American Life”, and comedy like “The Joe Rogan Experience”. Continue reading…
Sellinger EMBA Aims to Hire More Than Just One Youth
Stacy Wirth, an EMBA candidate from the Sellinger School of Business, is trying to make a difference for inner-city youth with job opportunities. She is a corporate ambassador for the Baltimore City Mayor’s Hire One Youth initiative, and organization that helps corporations in the region offer paid internships to inner city youth.
Hire One Youth prescreens job applicants for skills and interests, and provides a minimum of six hours of job readiness training to each applicant before referring them to your company for interviews, and looks to engage 16-21-year-olds who are responsible, motivated and engaged. Hire One Youth provides a job coach available throughout the summer employment period to assist with making the experience mutually beneficial. Continue reading…
