For Lisa Anders, MBA ’95, getting the lead as senior project manager on the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial on the National Mall was the ultimate sign of success in the male-dominated business and engineering fields.

On Tuesday, October 5, 2010, the Smith Association of Women MBAs (SAWMBA) held its annual GE Women’s Panel event at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business. Over the years, SAWMBA has established a valuable relationship with General Electric (GE), specifically its Women’s Network. Every year, the association hosts a panel that gives Smith women and SAWMBA supporters the opportunity to hear practical and sincere advice from successful women employed by GE. This year’s panel topic was “A Profile of Leadership and Building Career Capital.”

The University of Maryland's Smith Association of Women MBAs (SAWMBA) and the undergraduate Smith School Women’s Society are sponsoring a "Dress for Success" women's business clothes drive, April 22-23, 2009 (9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Pownall Grand Atrium of Van Munching Hall). Dress for Success is a not-for-profit organization that empowers women back into the workforce. Gentlemen are encouraged to participate by asking for clothing donations from their female significant others, relatives and friends.

On September 28, 2006, the Smith School's Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship welcomed some of the regions most successful female entrepreneurs as well as aspiring entrepreneurs and business owners to the Women's Entrepreneurship Event, co-sponsored by the Smith Association of Women MBAs. Speakers included business owners Amy Nichols, Gina Schaefer, and Penny Pompei, and author Julie Lenzer Kirk all who discussed the dos and don'ts of starting your own business.

What does it take for women to succeed in business? For one woman Janna Morrison, senior vice president of customer care and technology services for Choice Hotels International the secret to success was a series of lists and a very specific career map.