The year 2011 marks the 100th anniversary of IBM, and students, faculty and staff at the Robert H. Smith School of Business heard just what it took for the company to reach its centennial.

Thursday, April 14, 2011 @ 5:00 p.m. BB&T Colloquium on Capitalism, Ethics and Leadership Stan Litow, IBM: Beyond Responsibility: The Role of Corporate Citizenship in Modern Business 1524 Van Munching Hall, Frank Auditorium College Park, Md. On Thursday, April 14, 2011, Center for Leadership, Innovation and Change (CLIC) at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business will host the BB&T Colloquium on Capitalism, Ethics and Leadership, with featured speaker Stanley S. Litow of IBM.

Under Armour’s Kevin Plank and BB&T Sponsor Sixth Annual Event at University of Maryland’s Entrepreneurship Invitational

Two Smith School graduating seniors, Maseeh Roshan and Micheline Tocco, will be teaching—and dancing, and playing lacrosse--in Spain next year as winners of prestigious Fulbright English Teaching Assistantships (ETA) for 2011-12. The Fulbright Scholars program is the flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. Department of State. Roshan, an accounting and finance double major, hopes to eventually focus on international contract law after his year in Spain.

The University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business has inspired and motivated young minds for nearly a century. Now, for the first time, the school is leveraging the impact it can have on lives and careers in an advertising campaign aimed at prospective students for its graduate programs.

The Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland is proud to announce that first-year Smith MBA student Lakshmi Sankar and her team placed first at the 2011 Sony Marketing Strategy Case Competition, held February 18–19, 2011.

The Smith School established the Krowe Teaching Excellence Awards to recognize those who have demonstrated superior teaching skills. The Smith School Teaching Enhancement Committee appoints an Ad Hoc Committee to recommend awardees based on nominations from students, faculty, and alumni. The awardees for 2012-2013 are as follows: Krowe Awards Ritu Agarwal (DO&IT) Recognized for excellent teaching ratings in various classes including MBA, PhD, EMBA, and Gemstone courses.

It was while writing a paper for his freshman English 101 class that Evan Ponchick, a College Park Scholars Business, Society, and the Economy alumnus, came up with an initiative that would help feed the homeless and save the university money. Now a junior, Ponchick has watched his vision turn into a reality.

College Park, Md. — March 15, 2011 — The part-time MBA program at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business is ranked No. 17 in the latest edition of U.S.News & World Report’s “Americas Best Graduate Schools,” published today. Smith's program is the highest ranked part-time MBA program in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C. The report recognized the Smith School’s program and research strengths in a number of specialty categories, ranking the school’s information systems program No. 5, while supply chain/logistics is ranked No. 13 in the U.S.