Experiential Learning News
Companies worried about disruption need science and technology to stay relevant in the 21st century, but speakers at the fifth annual Smith School Business Summit pointed to soft skills as the real competitive advantage.
Speed dating took on a new meaning for undergraduates studying finance at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business last week. For several hours on Oct. 26, 2016, more than 130 students mixed and mingled with almost 40 professional mentors from the field of finance at the annual Finance Fellows Networking Night.
Participants did more with less at the fifth annual Smith School Business Summit, a signature event from the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business on Oct. 28, 2016, in Washington, D.C.
On Oct. 14, 2016, students in the Business, Society and the Economy (BSE) College Park Scholars (CPS) program at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business celebrated the 21st Citation Class with an awards ceremony honoring students for outstanding achievement and outstanding citizenship for exemplifying the founding ideals and values of CPS.
On Oct. 17, 2016, undergraduate students at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business who are in the Hospitality Business Fellows (HBF) program traveled a few miles down the road to visit the headquarters of Chesapeake Hospitality, a nationally-recognized hotel management company.
Smith student Philip Peker ’18 writes about the networking and etiquette dinner on Oct. 5, 2016, at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business.
Undergraduates in the Social Innovation Fellows (SIF) program at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business visited social entrepreneur Eugene Faison, CEO and founder of DGridEnergy LLC, at the Muirkirk Agricultural Experiment Station of the University of the District of Columbia in Beltsville, Md., on Sept. 27, 2016.
Undergraduate students in the new Management and Organization Society at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business got a lesson in leadership from J.
Last Thursday, Sept. 29, 2016, MBA students at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business met with Denise Naguib, Marriott’s vice president of sustainability and supplier diversity, to discuss her role in the sustainability effort in the hotel industry.
Smith student Philip Peker ’18 writes about an employer networking event on Sept. 15, 2016, with Grant Thornton LLP and undergraduate students in the Information Technology and Business Transformation Fellows program at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business.