Gaurav Bhalla, adjunct professor at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business and executive fellow of the Center for Excellence in Service (CES), has been named Executive Education Specialist of the Year by Corporate Vision Magazine, a UK-based media company reaching 130,000 top-tier business professionals with global business news and analysis.

People are constantly looking for insight on the keys to being a successful leader. A new forthcoming book explores the insights current and aspiring leaders can learn through poetry. In this edition of Smith Business Close-Up with the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, Gaurav Bhalla talks about his new book project that uses poetry to illustrate leadership lessons. Bhalla is an adjunct faculty member in Smith’s marketing department.

Smith’s Gaurav Bhalla explores South Africa’s ‘Curse’ Will South Africa choke again? The question is among storylines to the 2015 Cricket World Cup, underway in Australia and New Zealand.

Thursday, July 29, 2010, 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, Aug. 1, 2010, 7:30 a.m.; Monday, Aug. 2, 2010, 4:30 a.m. Rethinking Marketing     The world in changing. With a greater emphasis on all stakeholders around the global and the speed at which information flows digitally, companies are re-evaluating the way they do things. .