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Debra Shapiro Selected to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award

Debra Shapiro, the Clarice Smith Professor of Management & Organization at the University of

2023 Spring Commencement: Robert G. Hisaoka ’79 and Vishal Khera, MBA ’00

New graduates of the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business heard keynote testimonials on overcoming adversity and the life-changing benefits of a Smith degree during commencement exercises on May 24 at the XFINITY Center in College Park. The ceremony recognized 1,191 undergraduate students, 1,065 business master’s and MBA students, 10 PhD students and 32 EMBA students.

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Smith Welcomes Michael Hoffmeyer as Dingman Center Managing Director

The University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business has named Michael Hoffmeyer as Managing Director of its Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship.

David M. Rubenstein Answers 'What Makes a Good Leader?' in 2023 Fishlinger Family Lecture

On Monday, May 15, 2023, the University of Maryland’s Center for the Study of Business Ethics, Regulation & Crime (C-BERC), College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, and Robert H. Smith School of Business once again co-hosted the Fishlinger Family Lecture. This annual event is made possible by the generous support of Matt Fishlinger, GVPT '07, and Bill Fishlinger, GVPT '71, and their families.

Smith Pair Among Poets & Quants’ Class of 2023 Best and Brightest Online MBAs

McGeady Bushnell and Wing Pokrywka represent the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business among Poets & Quants “Best & Brightest Online MBAs: Class Of 2023.” The pair, according to P&Q, are among 52 students from the “world’s top-ranked programs” who excel in criteria including academic performance, classroom contributions and professional achievements.

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2023 Faculty and Staff Recognition Awards

One of the world’s top schools for business research, Maryland Smith also is where students exper

Entrepreneurial Spirit

The Dingman Center Announces Its Terp Startup Accelerator 2023 Cohort

The Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship is pleased to announce that it has accepted 12 University of Maryland student teams into its 2023 Terp Startup Accelerator summer program.

World Class Faculty & Research

Center for Global Business Announces PhD International Research Award

The Center for Global Business (CGB) announces that Abhay Grover, PhD candidate in supply chain management (Logistics, Business & Public Policy), has been awarded the 2023 PhD International Research Award for “A Study of the Impact of the United States’ Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) on a Domestic Firm’s Global Trade.” Now in its tenth year, this award supports doctoral candidates performing research on international topics.

Students Across Campus Compete in Smith Analytics Consortium’s Annual Datathon

Students in 47 teams from across the University of Maryland’s campus went head to head in this year’s fourth annual Datathon – an 11-day data-focused competition hosted by the Smith Analytics Consortium at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, in collaboration with Deloitte and KPMG. The Datathon finale took place in Van Munching Hall on April 28, 2023, in front of a panel of industry judges from Deloitte and KPMG and a crowd of supporters, and awarded a total of $7,500 in cash prizes.

Students Tackle Trending Sports Topics at Maryland Sports Business Conference

Hot topics in sports – including social media content creation, name-image-likeness (NIL) compensation changes in college sports, and the impact of Title IX – drew a crowd of students from the University of Maryland and several other universities to this year’s Maryland Sports Business Conference on April 21.

World Class Faculty & Research

Smith Launching Doctor of Business Administration Program

Applications are open for the new

How a Fraternity Helped Smith Create a New Experiential Learning Class for Social Good

For the first time, the Robert H. Smith School of Business has partnered with a Greek life fraternity at the University of Maryland to develop a new course where students work with real organizations to do social good.
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