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FROM News at Smith Maryland: Maryland Smith’s Online MBA Program Ranks Among Top 10

Best Online MBA Programs, published today.

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FROM News at Smith Maryland: Maryland Smith Hosts 36 Graduate Students from Australia

From January 7-17, 2020, the Center for Global Business at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business hosted the 20th annual global immersion study tour for 36 graduate students from longtime Maryland Smith partner, RMIT University. The annual program includes two weeks of site visits to various industry partners around the region, seminars conducted by Smith School faculty, excursions to national and local cultural sites, and an introduction to higher education in the U.S.

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21 Jan 2020, 13:00

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FROM News at Smith Maryland: Maryland Smith CHIDS, C-BERC Receive NIJ Grant To Explore Physician Fraud Roots

Healthcare is big business in the United States, accounting for roughly 20% of its overall GDP. And big businesses inevitably become vulnerable to fraud in a big way.

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27 Jan 2020, 14:00

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FROM News at Smith Maryland: The Center for Global Business Welcomes Incoming Business Exchange Students for Spring 2020

This semester Maryland Smith welcomes 21 exchange students from 10 of Maryland Smith’s partner universities. These students study here for a semester as their study abroad experience.

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03 Feb 2020, 09:00

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FROM News at Smith Maryland: Smith School In the News: 2020

The Smith School's world-class faculty are routinely quoted in leading business and other media, while Smith's innovative programs and research projects also receive attention.

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06 Feb 2020, 10:00

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FROM News at Smith Maryland: The Trends To Expect in 2020

This year, you can expect new, innovative solutions to environmental crises, as well as a vigorous race, to get 5G up and running, Erik Peterson told an audience this week at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business.

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10 Feb 2020, 11:00

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FROM News at Smith Maryland: Smith Undergraduate Students Explore the World

Undergraduate students at the Robert H. Smith School of Business completed another successful cycle of the faculty-led, short-term study abroad programs. This past winter semester, the Center for Global Business offered five programs that explored different topics in social entrepreneurship and innovation, accounting, supply chain management, globalization, and Brexit.

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FROM News at Smith Maryland: Maryland Smith Management Researchers Among Tops in U.S.

With 65 publications over the past five years in elite management journals, the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business is fifth among U.S. business schools in the latest Texas A&M/University of Georgia Rankings (TAMUGA) of Management Department Research Productivity.

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FROM News at Smith Maryland: Pines Named Next UMD President

The University System of Maryland (USM) Board of Regents yesterday appointed Darryll J. Pines, dean of the A. James Clark School of Engineering, as the 34th president of the University of Maryland, effective July 1.

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FROM News at Smith Maryland: Undergrads Reflect on 2020 Winter Study Abroad

Five undergraduate students of the Robert H. Smith School of Business served as communication liaisons on faculty-led short-term study abroad courses during the 2020 winter term. The students created a supportive community and culture of study abroad among Smith undergraduate students. They participated in five winter programs with destinations to Belgium and the United Kingdom, Panama and Peru, Singapore and Taiwan, Spain, and South Africa.

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FROM News at Smith Maryland: Maryland Alumni Reflect on Impact of Black Athletes in the District

Terps in DC in partnership with the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, brought alumni together for Fearless Conversations: Celebrating the Impact of Black Athletes on the District. The event, held Wednesday evening, Feb. 19, 2020, in recognition of Maryland Smith’s celebration of Black History Month, took place at Busboys and Poets in Washington, D.C.

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FROM News at Smith Maryland: Creating Paths Toward Academic Success

For seven years, the Smith Business Academy, designed for black and Latino men; and the Women’s Empowerment Institute, its female counterpart, have provided a supportive community of like-minded peers to help thwart incongruence in academic achievement experienced at many predominantly white institutions (PWI).

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FROM News at Smith Maryland: Winter 2020 Abroad: Gaining, Sharing Knowledge All Around the World

The Center for Global Business at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business hosted its fifth annual Global Showcase on Feb. 13, 2020, presenting projects from study abroad programs of the Winter 2020 term.

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FROM News at Smith Maryland: Npr, Google Leaders to Speak at Maryland Smith’s Women Inspire

Women Inspire event, hosted by the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business. Both women are graduates of the school’s MBA program.

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FROM News at Smith Maryland: NPR, Google Leaders to Speak at Maryland Smith’s Women Inspire

Women Inspire event, hosted by the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business. Both women are graduates of the school’s MBA program.

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FROM News at Smith Maryland: Being Black in Entrepreneurship: Fireside Chat

On Feb. 26, 2020, students gathered in Van Munching Hall for Being Black in Entrepreneurship: Fireside Chat, an opportunity for young emerging business owners to learn about starting a business as a founder of color.

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FROM News at Smith Maryland: Reducing Gender Bias: A Take from Two Smith Professors

How can we reduce gender bias in the workplace? The question sparked a thoughtful debate at the Girls in Tech Conference in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 27.

Offering insights in the discussion were two professors from the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, Wendy W. Moe and Margrét Bjarnadóttir.

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FROM News at Smith Maryland: Hisaoka Speaker Series: Sometimes finding wrong idea first leads to the right future business

Hisaoka Speaker Series, Robert G. Hisaoka, ’79 Maryland alum, interviewed three fellow Terps who have successfully founded their own businesses.

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04 Mar 2020, 17:00

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FROM News at Smith Maryland: iSmith Helps Students Prepare and Define Competencies, Narrative

This year’s freshman class at Maryland Smith kicked off their studies with a new pilot: the iSmith program.

It’s an innovative experience designed to prepare students for the workplace by building a personal brand and a narrative of their professional strategies and personal development as they navigate through their undergraduate years.

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FROM News at Smith Maryland: Smith MBA Students Reflect on 2020 Winter-term Global Business Courses

MBA students Brandon Caracciolo, part-time MBA (Brazil program), Erin Edmunds, part-time MBA (China and Vietnam program), Tida Jarjou, full-time MBA (UAE program), Lynn Kostas, part-time MBA (Japan and Singapore program), and Dan Wurtzel, part-time MBA (South Africa program) write about their participation in the January 2020 winter term global business courses.