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More than 300 students graduated from the Robert H. Smith School of Business on December 19, 2004.
Smith professors Anand Anandalingam, Ritu Agarwal, Anil Gupta, and Joseph Bailey helped welcome leading information technology researchers from around the world to the 25th anniversary session of the prestigious International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) in Washington, D.C., December 12-15, 2004 at The Grand Hyatt Washington.
CATEGORY 1 AWARDS (Top 15% Of Full-time Faculty)
Joe Bailey, LBPP/D&IT
J. Robert Baum, M&O
Hugh Courtney, M&O
Phil Evers, LBPP
Judy Frels, Marketing
Anand Gopal, D&IT
S. Lele, D&IT
Peter Morici, LBPP
Jim Peters, Accounting
Joyce Russell, M&O
Roland T. Rust, chair of the marketing department at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, was recently named editor of the prestigious Journal of Marketing. This journal has been ranked number one in two of the last three surveys of major marketing journals.
Showcasing their business savvy for more than a dozen high-powered companies, 74 freshman College Park Scholars (CPS) students studied and made strategic recommendations for real-world companies. Each team illustrated its recommended strategy on a display board, which was evaluated by a team of judges, including a representative from the company.
College Park, MD December 2, 2004 - The University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business is seeking nominations for the schools 2005 Smith Leadership and Excellence Awards.
The Robert H. Smith School of Business is pleased to announce "Babyfones" as the winner of the Third Annual Undergraduate Business Plan Competition. Leading Babyfones are two recent grads, Sarah Vogel, a marketing major, and Dean Jephson, a finance major.
Smith School senior John Kim and sophomore Mary Rosa Connolly were surprised with a scholarship from the GEICO 2004 Achievement Awards on December 6. Shannon Hatfield, GEICO college relations manager, presented the oversize checks for $500 to the delighted students at a mechanical engineering class on Monday afternoon.
A new book released this month offers guidance on how firms can avoid the kind of corporate victories that end up as disasters, harming shareholders and placing the firms future in jeopardy. Beware the Winners Curse: Victories That Can Sink You and Your Company (
New York, NY & College Park, Md. - November 15, 2004 - DBM, the global human resources consulting firm, and the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, today announced a partnership to provide the schools MBA candidates with job search coaching and support.