The Center for Global Business hosts annual CIBE and AIBER meetings.

We will broaden our studies to include concepts of managerial accounting. This type of accounting involves the application of business management tools, including budgeting, cost accounting, performance management, breakeven computations and incremental analysis.

In partnership with the MAPIT Alliance, the Center for Global Business presents, "Don't Be a No-Show: Making the Most of Virtual Trade Shows," the sixth edition of a series of webinars connecting Maryland companies to export resources at Maryland Smith, the Maryland Department of Commerce, the U.S. Export Assistance Center, and the Maryland/D.C. District Export Council.

Andy Shallal, CEO and founder of Busboys and Poets joins Maryland Smith Associate Dean Victor Mullins in a conversation about pivoting your business strategy in the midst of a global pandemic, economic distress and racial protests. Join us to share your thoughts and ask questions on how to move your business and your career forward in uncertain times.

Distinguished Speakers in International Business Series and CEO @ Smith Present: CEO of EY, Carmine Di Sibio

Carmine Di Sibio assumed his role of CEO and global chairman at EY in July 2019, rising to the top spot after more than 30 years with the company. He leads the 280,000 employees who provide consulting, assurance, tax and transaction services in more than 150 countries. This event is the latest in the CEO @ Smith speaker series, co-hosted with Maryland Smith's Center for Global Business.

We will expand the discussion of accrual accounting to specific areas of a company’s business and explore the key differences between a company’s income statement and its cash flow statement. We also will review concepts of financial analysis and use analytical tools that use accounting information to assess the financial health of a company.

The LGBT Equity Center will collaborate with the Department of Resident Life to provide an LGBTQ+ Affinity Space. This is a great way to connect with staff and peers before the semester starts up. The atmosphere is relaxed and informal. We just want to get to know you! 

P. K. Kannan, Dean's Chair in Marketing Science, will briefly introduce how consumer behavior has changed during the pandemic and what the implications are for marketing strategies in the short term and the longer term.

Learn how marketing/retailing has been affected and what he sees as structural changes. How should firms orient themselves going forward? Which trends are going to dominate, which media will have higher importance and which media's importance will wane? He will cover implications for customer focus, digital marketing and marketing budgets.

How to create a strategy that maximizes flexibility and captures opportunities no matter what the future brings? Strategic plans are always about the future. Therefore, you can’t build a great strategy without a better understanding of the immediate and distant future of your industry, your competitors, your customers and the world at large. This webinar shows you how to find opportunities locally and globally by discovering early warning signals and capitalizing on trends before your competitors do.

The Hispanic Heritage Foundation, the Friends of the National Museum of the American Latino, and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute invite you to a virtual tertulia to get to know Luis Ubiñas, American investor, businessman, and philanthropist.

Luis Ubiñas is the chairman-elect of the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, which under his leadership will focus on an accurate representation of the American immigration experience from this country’s earliest days to the present.