Smith Alumnus Nominated for Rising Star Inventor of the Year : Dominic Crapuchettes, Smith MBA ’04
Dominic Crapuchettes, MBA ’04, bet his future on North Star Games, a board game company he created in 2004 with Satish Pillalamarri, MBA ’04. Now you can find his games — Wits & Wagers, Say Anything and Cluzzle — in your neighborhood retail stores.
Solving a Condiment Conundrum QUEST celebration caps off semester-long consulting projects
Tulkoff Food Products Inc. has been a Baltimore business since the 1930s and is particularly famous for its horseradish products. But processing two million pounds of raw horseradish each year has produced a big problem for the company. The process used to clean the roots generates 100,000 pounds of horseradish peels and 2.2 million gallons of dirty water annually.
Univ. of Maryland’s Smith School of Business and Maryland Bankers Association to Offer Program for Community Bank Board Members
College Park, Md. – December 7, 2010 – The Center for Financial Policy at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business and the Maryland Bankers Association are partnering to deliver a Bank Director Training Program.
Smith School’s Center for Financial Policy Teams with PRMIA to Host Inaugural Chief Risk Officer Speaker Series
On Dec. 15, 2010, in Washington, D.C., the Center for Financial Policy at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, and the Professional Risk Management International Association (PRMIA) jointly hosted the inaugural Chief Risk Officer Speaker Series.
CEO@Smith Speaker Series Features Dick Cass on November 30
CEO@Smith Speaker Series Dick Cass, President, Baltimore RavensTuesday, November 30, 2010, 5:30 - 7 p.m.Frank Auditorium, Van Munching HallUniversity of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742
Robert H. Smith School of Business Professor Named Editor of Top Journal
College Park, Md. – November 15, 2010 – Ritu Agarwal, professor and Dean’s Chair of Information Systems at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, was named editor-in-chief of Information Systems Research. She will assume her role January 1, 2011.
Perfect Pitch : Terps bring their big ideas to a big audience at the October 29 Pitch Dingman competition.
A group of student entrepreneurs got an unusual opportunity to present their big ideas to an audience of University of Maryland Trustees and the university’s new president, Dr. Wallace Loh, as the Smith School’s weekly Pitch Dingman competition went to the Riggs Alumni Center on Friday, October 29.
Univ. of Maryland’s Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship Awarded for Excellence in Teaching, Student Activities
College Park, Md. – November 4, 2010 – The University of Maryland’s Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship at the Robert H. Smith School of Business won the top award for innovative teaching methods from the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers (GCEC). The organization recognized the Dingman Center with the “Excellence in Entrepreneurship Teaching and Pedagogical Innovation” award at its annual conference at Pennsylvania State University on Oct. 23.