Scaling Success Through Startups
Elan Mosbacher, a Robert H. Smith School of Business alumnus, pivoted from traditional finance to co-found Pinch, empowering healthcare workers to start side businesses. Emphasizing impact, Mosbacher urges future leaders to give their all in making the world better.
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Dying
Stranded on a dark roadside, Oliver Schlake challenges students near Baltimore to survive with only a trash bag's contents. Through hands-on exercises like wilderness scavenging, Business, Society, and Economy students at the University of Maryland hone creative problem-solving skills with Professor Schlake's guidance. Discover more about their innovative approach.
Tributes, Memories for Professor Mark Wellman
Mark Wellman, a widely admired management and organization professor at Maryland Smith, died unexpectedly on Dec. 26, 2021. He was 59.
Undergrads Partner With Fox Sports U
When Maryland Smith’s College Park Scholars work with corporations, exciting things can happen. This spring semester – and for the third consecutive year – 12 Smith freshmen and 17 sophomores from the Business, Society and the Economy living-learning program assisted Fox Sports University in marketing its NASCAR and iRacing properties.
Game for a Business Challenge
College Park Scholars Students Propose Marketing Campaigns for Social Broadcasting Platform
Students Learn by Talking to Strangers
No Teacher, No Tour Bus and No Comfort Zone for Teams on Self-Guided Field Trips Undergraduate students in the College Park Scholars program learned from some unlikely sources when they hit the streets of Washington, D.C., as part of an innovation course at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business.
College Park Business Scholars Feted at Awards Ceremony
Undergraduate student Shyama Srikkanth, class of 2019, an operations management & business and environmental science & policy double major, writes about the Scholars Citation Ceremony held on September 21, 2018, at the Cambridge Community Center, University of Maryland.
Scholars Dive into Silicon Valley
How do you communicate if you're not allowed to talk? University of Maryland undergraduate students on a travel-study course to Silicon Valley learned by experience when they visited alumnus Brad Margolis at Electronic Arts. Students had 15 minutes to plan and navigate an “electronic” path on a mat created by Margolis, a 1994 graduate of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business and senior director of Executive Development & Organization Effectiveness at EA.
Sophomores Complete College Park Scholars Program
Sixty-four sophomores in the Business, Society and the Economy (BSE) program at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business successfully completed the two-year College Park Scholars program on May 4, 2018. Over 800 College Park Scholars, mentors, and faculty attended the annual academic showcase where the BSE sophomores presented their semester-long Capstone projects. The event was held at the Edward St. John Learning and Teaching Center.
Students Learn How Innovators Think
Brett Prescott earned dual degrees in finance and economics from the University of Maryland, has a successful career in marketing and came back to College Park last week to share his experience with current undergraduates and be a part of the Terps’ Homecoming Weekend. During a “Lunch & Learn” on Oct. 27, 2017, a classroom-full of interested business students at the Robert H.