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Debra L. Shapiro, the Clarice Smith Professor of Management and Organization at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, has been elected to serve a five-year term on the executive committee of the Academy of Management (AOM), effective August 2012.
Shapiro will serve from August 2015-2016 as academy president and the year afterward as immediate past president.
For many full-time MBA students their two-year experience passes by in a frenzied flash. When they leave business school they have a valuable degree, a great job and an amazing network. Their school has had a profound impact on them, but have they had the opportunity to make a lasting impact on their school?
The University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business welcomed executive MBA(EMBA) alumni, current students, faculty, and administrators to a special networking event on April 17, 2012, at The Mayflower in Washington, D.C.
The Smith community came together on May 2, 2013, to celebrate the achievements of top undergraduate students at the 13th annual Dean’s Undergraduate Senior Awards Dinner. More than 70 students, faculty and staff enjoyed a dinner at Van Munching Hall. The much-anticipated annual celebration was the cap on the academic year and a final celebration before course finals and commencement.
With the rollout of the Obama Administration’s major U.S. healthcare reforms looming, the industry is scrambling to bring its business systems, IT and operational practices up to par with other industries and in line with huge innovations and advances in the medical field.
Managing the Message Firms can influence media coverage after wrongdoing by carefully choosing the type of information released to the press.
Item-Based Loyalty Programs Customers are more responsive to reward point programs than to price discounts of the same monetary value.
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Rosie Ferrarro, assistant professor of marketing, received her PhD from Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.
Frank Auditorium was the place to be on Thursday, April 26, 2012, for students interested in a career in professional baseball. Executives from Major League Baseball, the minor leagues and the media shared advice about the profession at the Baseball Industry Networking Night hosted by the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland.
For several students from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, Georgetown University and George Washington University, the Doing Business with Latin America Conference was more than just a conference.