Online MBA students at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business tested their entrepreneurial ideas in a two-hour pop-up business challenge in fall 2017. More than 30 teams earned profits during the activity, led by Smith School professors David Kirsch, David Kressler, Azi Gera and Brent Goldfarb. Pop-up enterprises included:

College costs money, but entrepreneurship students at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business have flipped the script. As part of Business Management 461, an undergraduate elective, classmates form teams and start real-world companies that earn hundreds or even thousands of dollars.

Rising to a Pop-Up Challenge: Smith Online MBA Students ‘Experience Entrepreneurship in a Tangible Way’

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — Just when it looked like the smartphone world had been winnowed down to two heavyweights, Apple and Samsung — with the also-rans fighting over the scraps — a Chinese company that's basically unknown in the United States is elbowing its way into the fray.