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Tens of thousands of people came to the University of Maryland this past Saturday for the annual Maryland Day celebration! The Smith School was explored by hundreds of prospective students and their families. The Undergraduate Business Program Overview was standing room only and the Smith Passport to Prizes was a huge success!
The Accenture MBA Case Competition, the third of four experiential learning modules (ELMs) for Smith School MBAs, took place May 11-16, 2001.
A team of five talented Smith School MBA students won second place at the fourth annual Venture Capital Investment Competition (VCIC ). The competition was held at the Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (March 29-31, 2001).
Leader is a word often used to describe this years recipient of the Graduate Business Foundations Student Leadership Award, Kelly Nelson, Smith MBA '01.
College Park, MD - May 27, 1999 - Leo Van Munching Jr. has donated $6 million to help finance the expansion and renovation of Van Munching Hall, the home of the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, College Park. An alumnus of the Smith School, Van Munching graduated from the University of Maryland in 1950 with a degree in marketing and business administration…
Baltimore, MD - May 18, 1999 - The Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, College Park, will honor Baltimore business leaders William N. Apollony and Francis A. Contino as the business school's 1999 Distinguished Alumni.
College Park, MD - May 5, 1999 - Thanks to the generosity of alumni and a corporate foundation, the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, College Park, can boast another prestigious faculty position: the KPMG Professorship in Accounting.
College Park, MD - January 21, 1999 - Chevy Chase Bank, the largest thrift based in Greater Washington and the area's 4th largest bank, is donating $580,000 to the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, College Park.
College Park, MD - December 9, 1998 - The magazine digitalsouth has named Charles O. Heller, of Arnold, Maryland, one of "The 50 Most Influential People in Southern Technology." Heller is director of the Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park.
College Park, MD - November 13, 1998 - Information technology companies, manufacturers, financial institutions--these and other businesses have at least one thing in common: they depend on timely delivery of goods and services to customers.