Smith Profiles
Alumni Profile
Creating an App To Get Millennials Giving
The problem, says Rachel Epstein Klausner ’11, isn’t that she wasn’t giving to charity, the problem was her giving habits.
Alumni Profile
'An Environment I Wanted To Be Part Of'
Dan Robillard, Online MBA '19
For Dan Robillard, community has always been important. After working in the U.S. Navy for eight years, Robillard was looking for a community to call his own as he transitioned back to private life.
Faculty Profile
Leaving Industry and Finding Something More
Adams B. Steven, Assistant Professor of Supply Chain Management
Adams Steven’s career began with a test. “In countries like Sierra Leone, you don’t really choose where you work, but you hope you get the job,” he says. “It’s not uncommon to see people with, say, physics degrees, working with you.”
Student Profile
Reading Between the Data Points
Sahitya Angara, MS in Business Analytics 2020
Sahitya Angara took an analytical approach when selecting a master's program. We’d expect nothing less from her – Angara was, in fact, a data analyst prior to arriving in Maryland from her former job in Chennai, India. She’s always enjoyed “reading between the data points.”
Student Profile
For the Love of Programming and Econometrics
Poulami Ghosh, MS in Quantitative Finance 2021
Poulami Ghosh developed a love of computer programming at the end of high school. “It started in 11th grade. I was interested in computer programming.
Student Profile
A Chat With a ‘Human Energizer Bunny’
David Rosenstein , Undergraduate
David Rosenstein chose the University of Maryland’s Smith School of Business for its connections and its energy: two things he knows plenty about.
“It’s a very happy place,” he says of Van Munching Hall.
Alumni Profile
Raising the Barre
Maryland Smith alum finds a niche and a career in perfect balance
Alumni Profile
Delivering Responsible Investment in Sweden
Göran Espelund, MBA
Göran Espelund, MBA ’87, had options as a Fulbright Scholar from Sweden. He received offers from five U.S. programs, but he chose the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business for its close-knit community and proximity to Washington, D.C.
Faculty Profile
A Journey, Begun in Africa, But Never Along a Single Path
Lemma Senbet, Professor
Lemma Senbet’s finance career was launched by a queue. He was waiting to register at Addis Ababa University with hopes of getting into the engineering school. But then he noticed another line, an even longer one, forming.
Faculty Profile
For Kimbrough, Stories Are Told in Ledgers
Michael Kimbrough, Associate Professor
For Michael Kimbrough, accounting isn’t just about balance sheets. It’s about telling a company’s story.