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More than 10,000 Smith School graduates live and work in Washington, D.C., and Northern Virginia, and now they have an alumni chapter to help them connect with one other.
The initiative came about from a push by Smith alumni working with the Office of Development and Alumni Relations, which has focused in recent months on engaging more regional alumni.
Nearly 850 alumni, faculty and staff gathered Dec. 18, 2015, at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., to celebrate the holidays. It was the largest turnout for the Smith School’s annual Alumni Holiday Gala, now in its third year. Of the attendees, 50 percent were returning alumni, with graduates from 1965 through 2015 represented.
Smith undergraduates Kirk Morris and Hamza Choudery both landed dream internships in summer 2015 with Facebook. The current juniors will return to the social networking giant this summer for another internship as part of the 37-person inaugural cohort of the two-year Facebook University for Business program.
Binge watching television — taking in a season of “Mad Men” or “Silicon Valley” in a day or two — has become a new pastime, made tempting by streaming services such as Netflix, Hulu and Amazon.
Twitter can be a brutal world for customer service workers. Complaints about companies are not just public but often harsh: “Sitting on the Tarmac at DFW waiting for a gate! Late again #americanairlines.”
Organizations will need to do three things well to thrive in 2025, keynote speaker Calvin G. Butler Jr. said Nov. 13, 2015, at the fourth annual Smith School Business Summit in Baltimore.
As a 28-year-old widow, the grandmother of William “Billy” Greenblatt, English ’79, started riding in the back of a mail truck to her New York City post office job to save the subway fare and b
College leaders need to act more quickly if they don't want to be swept aside by emerging technologies, Smith School professor Henry C. Lucas Jr. argues in a new book.
Four Smith alumni are representing the United States in a 10-month immersive internship and learning program in Dubai. The program, comprised of 40 international graduates, is sponsored by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, vice president and prime minister of the United Arab Emirates and ruler of Dubai.
More than $100,000 will be on the line in “Cupid’s Cup 2.0,” an expanded version of the 11-year-old entrepreneurship competition led by Under Armour founder and