Smith Profiles
Alumni Profile
Making Connections Through Storytelling – and Finding a Career
For Nick Gardner ’18, a marketing degree was the perfect opportunity to pursue two of his passions: storytelling and connecting with others.
Alumni Profile
Coming Full Circle At NPR
Meg Goldthwaite, MBA ’96
For Meg Goldthwaite, MBA ’96, taking on the chief marketing officer role at National Public Radio, one of the country’s most trusted news organizations, was like coming full circle in what she calls a serendipitous career journey. Journalism is where it all started.
Faculty Profile
Merging Computer Science and Business
Louiqa Raschid, Decision, Operations and Information Technologies (Faculty)
What does computer science have to do with business school? A lot, says Louiqa Raschid, professor of information systems at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business.
Alumni Profile
Relationship Building Doesn't Always Come Easy
Larry Legates, MBA '04
For senior global trade compliance manager, Larry Legates, MBA ’04, developing a global mindset goes far beyond the workplace. Legates studied abroad in Spain, Chile, and Mexico.
Faculty Profile
Driven To Make a Difference
Ritu Agarwal’s career in academia is more than a job. To her, it’s a calling and a chance to make a positive impact on the world.
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.