UMD Smith Students Gain New Opportunities Through Snider Center
The Snider Center at the University of Maryland R.H. Smith School of Business opened new opportunities and broadened experience for many Smith School students this summer.
Smith MBA Students Get Right to Business with PepsiCo Challenge
This summer, the University of Maryland R.H. Smith School of Business hosted the third annual MBA Orientation Live Case Competition, challenging almost 100 full-time MBAs to develop their first real-world business solution.
Learning Outside the Classroom at the Smith School
Learning doesn’t just happen in the classroom, especially in MBA programs. In fact, it’s the outside learning experiences that can be most valuable for many MBA students and graduates.
Most full-time MBA programs organize events, clubs, competitions and other activities to provide their students with an opportunity to apply and refine the skills and knowledge they’ve acquired in the classroom. Business problems aren’t typically cookie-cutter, so it’s in students’ best interest to schools to foster creativity, flexibility, and teamwork.
Krishna Erramilli, associate dean at Illinois Tech’s Stuart School of Business, had this to say to the Chicago Tribune. “Business problems have become a lot more unprecedented, a lot more complex. To train our students to be successful in the 21st century, they must be able to go into a company, look at that problem and analyze the problem from multiple functional perspectives.”
That concept is just one of the reasons behind the Center for Leadership, Innovation and Change (CLIC) at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business. Continue reading…
New Executive Communication Program Helps Smith School Students Excel at Communications as Well as Business
Attention socially awkward MBAs: The Robert H. Smith School of Business has a new program for you! The new Smith Executive Communication Program offers students the opportunity to develop their communication skills through an intensive one-year curriculum. Continue reading…
New Leading Fearlessly Program Encourages Smith MBAs to Become Fearless Leaders
The development of leadership skills is heavily emphasized by many MBA programs. In fact, it’s often a selling point. At the University of Maryland Robert H. Smith School of Business, leadership development is a core part of the Smith MBA experience, which is why the school recently launched its new Leading Fearlessly Program. Continue reading…
$2 Mil. Endowment Will Fund Scholarships for Robert H. Smith School Business
The Kimmy Foundation Inc. has announced it will allocate a $2 million endowment for undergraduate scholarships in the University of Maryland (UMD)’s A. James Clark School of Engineering and the Robert H. Smith School of Business. Continue reading…
