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Amazon, via its Northern Virginia-based second headquarters, reportedly plans to hire about 400 workers next year and 1,180 in 2020, eventually adding 25,000 jobs.
In the spring semester and winter term 2019, UMD-Smith undergraduate students will be studying all over the world to expand their global mindsets. Whether through a faculty-led short-term program or a semester program, studying abroad allows students to hone a passion for diversity, expand their global network and achieve the power skills needed to become future global business leaders.
Curt Grimm, a longtime professor at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, died on Dec. 12, 2018, at age 65. He was the Charles A. Taff Chair of Economics & Strategy and became chair of the school’s Logistics, Business and Public Policy department in 2017, having previously served in that role from 1995 to 2003.
Santiago Luna, the coordinator for the Center for Global Business at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, writes about International Education Week, held November 12-16, 2018.
On November 30, 2018, the Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship and the Center for Social Value Creation hosted the inaugural Hult @ UMD, a local edition of the
Maryland Smith students in the Business Management class at the Universities of Shady Grove are staging a Winter Bazaar Crafts Fair from 10 a.m.–3 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 8 at the Universities at Shady Grove, 9630 Gudelsky Drive, Building II, Rockville.
The University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business is tied for No. 24 in the newly released Americas 2018 Top 25 Business School Rankings from Financial Times.
Santiago Luna, the coordinator for the Center for Global Business at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business, writes about the CIBE Case Challenge held November 7–11, 2018 at the University of Connecticut.
Terps worldwide showed why they are #UMDSmithProud during the second annual Smith Day on Nov. 14, 2018.
Groups gathered at four regional campuses of the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business to celebrate. Additional alumni gatherings took place around the United States and internationally in London and Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen, China.
Bruce Golden, the France-Merrick Chair in Management Science at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business, has been named as the recipient of the George E. Kimball Medal.