Event Honors Smith Alumnae for Their Achievements College Park, Md. (Feb. 10, 2020) – Meg Goldthwaite, chief marketing officer at NPR, and Sherika Ekpo, global diversity and inclusion lead for Google AI, will be the honored guests at this year’s Women Inspire event, hosted by the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business. Both women are graduates of the school’s MBA program.

It’s like a stack of international postcards, combined with a science fair and infused with real-life experience and learning. And every year, it’s a fascinating exhibition of global study abroad programs. The Center for Global Business at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business hosted its fifth annual Global Showcase on Feb. 13, 2020, presenting projects from study abroad programs of the Winter 2020 term.

Greg Rafal, assistant director at the Center for Global Business, writes about the 2020 faculty-led, short-term winter semester program. Undergraduate students at the Robert H. Smith School of Business completed another successful cycle of the faculty-led, short-term study abroad programs. This past winter semester, the Center for Global Business offered five programs that explored different topics in social entrepreneurship and innovation, accounting, supply chain management, globalization, and Brexit.

Kearney partner, speaking at Maryland Smith, outlines 10 predictions for the year ahead. This year, you can expect new, innovative solutions to environmental crises, as well as a vigorous race, to get 5G up and running, Erik Peterson told an audience this week at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business.

Kara Korab, program manager for the Center for Global Business (CGB) at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business, writes about the Smith School’s incoming exchange students.

Santiago Luna, the coordinator for the Center for Global Business, writes about the 2020 RMIT USA Business and Culture Immersion program hosted at Maryland Smith.

Greg Rafal, assistant director of the Center for Global Business, writes about the International Business Case Challenge at the University of Connecticut, held Nov. 13-17, 2019.

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Cleveland Fed President Discusses Monetary Policy, Tomorrow’s Jobs and the Importance of Data Data comes from all sorts of places and takes various forms, Cleveland Fed President Loretta J. Mester told a gathering of Maryland Smith students and faculty on Monday.