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April
2008: Sustainability Month at Smith
April was recognized as
Sustainability Month this year at
campuses around the country. The Smith
School held a number of events for both
the students and community to
participate in that focused on
sustainability and going green in
recognition of the month. The events
were focused around not only bringing
about awareness of environmental issues
to participants they were also designed
to show how individuals can build
companies around sustainability and the
environment.
In College Park, students had the
opportunity to listen to the CEO of
Honest Tea, Seth Goldman, speak about
the company and running a responsible
business. They also had the opportunity
to listen to the creator of a new videosharing Web site and content
aggregator for everything green, emPivot.
At the
Second Annual CEO Conference in
Shady Grove, students and entrepreneurs
alike had the chance at to learn about
Entrepreneurship and the Environmental
Renaissance, where the main topic of the
day was going green and being
environmental in your approach to
starting a new business. Net Impact brought together students to talk about
current ethical implications in today’s
society and the effects that
globalization is having on the way we
run our businesses.
Related
Stories:
►Net Impact Club Hosts Discussion
on Global Business
►Honest Tea
CEO Speaks to Smith Students
►Second Annual
CEO Conference Focuses on Sustainability
►Dingman Center Gathers Students
for Intriguing Real-life
Business
Lesson on Using the Past to
Shape the Future
►April 2008:
Sustainability Month at Smith
Alex
Kouts Elected Co-Chair of the
Graduate Business Foundation President's
Forum
 After
being elected as president of the Smith
School’s MBA Association,
Alex Kouts, MBA Candidate 2009, took
a trip out to San Francisco to take part
in the President's Forum at the Graduate
Business Conference at Berkeley this
spring. During this annual event
incoming and outgoing presidents of each
MBA Association from the top 50 MBA
programs globally come together. One of
the tasks that is accomplished during
this meeting is the election of the
chairman of the forum for the next year.
This year Kouts had the honor of being
elected co-chairman of the Graduate
Business Foundation President's Forum,
an international organization for MBA
student leaders, along with the
president from Carnegie Mellon. Kouts is
the first president from Smith to be
elected in to this position.
►Full Story
The Smith School will host the 8th Annual
Netcentricity Conference on Friday, May 9
with the theme of "Information
Technology-Enabled Transformations." The
purpose of the conference is to illustrate
how technology is dramatically changing
industries, markets and organizations, and
to discuss how to bring the transformation
theme into management education. The keynote
speakers include Fred Ehrlich, former head
of Sony Digital, Eric Eggleton, Senior Vice
President and Chief Content Officer,
Maryland Public Television, and Professor
Ann Majchrzak of the University of Southern
California.
www.rhsmith.umd.edu/netconference
Smith Takes Second Place in the CIBER
International
Business Case Competition
A team of four Smith second-year MBAs
traveled to the University of Wisconsin
in Madison on April 16-18, 2008 to
compete in the CIBER (Center for
International Business Education and
Research) International Business Case
Competition. The team—Dan Bresette, Ike
Kim, Liubov Luzhnova, and Sam
Tang—walked away with a second place
finish out of 11 competing schools. Ike
Kim was also awarded the individual best
presenter award, which made him one of
three winners of this award. First place went to the University of
Washington, Seattle; the competition
also included five international teams
who represented Italy, Thailand,
Denmark, China, and Mexico. All of the
schools that participated were CIBER
institutions and international partners.
The international aspect was something
that Tang really enjoyed. “To me the
coolest thing was to meet students from
all around the globe,” he said. “Being
an international student myself, I was
very excited by the international flavor
of this competition.”
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Dingman Center Gathers Students for
Intriguing Real-life Business Lesson on
Using the Past to Shape the Future
Michael Granoff was astounded when he found
out about Professor David Kirsch’s research.
Granoff was meeting with team members at
Project Better Place, a California-based
startup electric vehicle company, when
someone started passing around Kirsch’s
book, “The Electric Vehicle and the Burden
of History.” The excitement led to a
meeting with Kirsch a few weeks later —
April 23 — at the University of Maryland’s
Robert H. Smith School of Business. In a
session organized by the school’s
Dingman Center for
Entrepreneurship, Granoff met with
Kirsch, an associate professor of
entrepreneurship, and a small group of
students, faculty and staff to talk about
Project Better Place and his mission to
reduce the world’s dependency on oil.
Granoff is banking on history
repeating itself – just as electric light
replaced kerosene oil lamps more than a
century ago, he’s convinced electricity will
replace oil to power vehicles.
►Full Story
Smith
Black MBAA Hosts Africa Forum,
Celebrates African Diaspora
Even the most casual followers of
broad macroeconomic trends are familiar
with the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia,
India, China) and the rapid future
economic growth that is predicted for
each. But many people are relatively
unaware of a less discussed, but just as
critical, new emerging global market:
Africa. In 2003, foreign investment in
sub-Saharan Africa totaled $140 million;
by 2007, this figure had increased
exponentially to $1.4 billion. One group
that is actively promoting awareness of
Africa’s growing economic relevance is
the Black MBA Association (BMBAA), which
hosted its annual Africa Forum & African
Diaspora in Van Munching Hall on
Wednesday, April 23.
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Smith Community Celebrates Alumni Mentors
Over 60 Smith School MBA students,
administrators and alumni mentors attended
the fourth annual Smith MBA Alumni Mentor
Program (AMP) Awards Luncheon on April 19,
2008. Held at Maggiano’s Little Italy in
Washington, D.C., the luncheon recognizes
exemplary program participation, honoring
the “Mentor of the Year,” “Cluster of the
Year,” and “Cluster Coordinator of the
Year.” AMP chairs Glenn Gargan ’87, MBA ’02,
and Jean-Yves Van Halle, MS ’96, MBA ’04,
addressed attendees and reflected on the
program’s growth over the past few years of
their involvement.
The luncheon honorees included:
- Alice Chen, MD, MBA ’05, named
“Mentor of the Year” for her work with
the management strategy/consulting
cluster.
- Aditya Betala, first-year full-time
MBA student, named “Cluster Coordinator
of the Year” for his leadership of the
management strategy/consulting cluster.
- The management strategy/consulting
cluster was named “Cluster of the Year,”
recognizing its mentors’ contributions
and students’ participation.
University
Update
►UM
Team Wins Its First National Quiz Bowl Title
More than two dozen universities competed
for the title in St. Louis on April 12,
including the University of Illinois, Brown,
Harvard, California-Irvine and Stanford.
It's the first time a Maryland team has
taken top honors in the competition, and the
Maryland team became the youngest to win the
tournament.
►Full Story
►UM
Vid/Terp Winners Selected
Winners of the University of Maryland 2008
Vid/Terp student video competition have been
announced. Students created three-minute
videos to show their research, academics,
activities and creativity. Topics ranged
from robotic aircraft to an alternative
spring break trip, to a fictional day in the
life of a student.
►Full Story & Videos
►President Mote's Spring Video Message
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Smith School in the News |
►Inc.
Magazine – April 2008 – Anil
Gupta, the Ralph J. Tyser Professor
of Management, is quoted in a story
about global business.
►Read more►Los
Angeles Times – April 26, 2008 –
Business professor Peter Morici
is quoted in a story about federal
interest rate cuts.
►Read more
►Forbes.com
– April 25, 2008 – Business
professor Peter Morici writes an
op-ed about the federal interest rates.
►Read more
►BusinessWeek.com
– April 24, 2008 – The Smith School
is highlighted in an online slideshow
for its spring 2008 commencement
speaker, school namesake Robert H.
Smith. The item includes a quote from
Dean Howard Frank and a photo.
►Read more
►CBS
Radio – April 23, 2008 – Marketing
chair Roland Rust is interviewed
about summer airlines travel
predictions.
►Listen and
read more
►Reuters
News – April 18, 2008 – Business
professor Peter Morici is quoted
in a story about issues prominent in the
Democratic primary race in Pennsylvania.
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Smith
Business Close-Up |
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Thursday,
May 1, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, May 4, 7:30 a.m.
Monday, May 5, 4:30 a.m. |
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Africa Trip for
MBAs
 It
was an undeniably powerful experience
for two Smith MBAs – a trip to Africa to
install solar panels in a rural
community center, then watching children
crowd under the electric lights to read.
In this edition of Smith Business
Close-Up with the University of
Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of
Business, Jason Lee, a student
finishing up his first year of Smith’s
full-time MBA program, talks about his
work on a business project that recently
took him and another Smith student to a
remote village in Africa.
In January, the Smith students joined
a group from the University of
Maryland’s chapter of Engineers without
Borders to travel to Dissin, Burkina
Faso. They installed 11 solar powered
lighting system in a local community
center to provide access to an
efficient, safe lighting source. Now the
group is hoping to win a World
Bank-sponsored grant competition to set
up solar power systems in villages that
would make some villagers into
entrepreneurial power suppliers for
their neighbors.
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Spotlight |
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Amy Owens currently works as the admissions
coordinator for the MBA and MS programs, but
this is just one of the many roles that she
has filled at the University of Maryland
since she started in 1987. At that time she
worked as a typist clerk in the Radio, TV
and Film department. After this assignment
she moved to the University College for a
few years but returned back to the College
Park Campus after realizing how much she
missed it. When she returned to the campus
she worked in the Institute for Systems
Research in the AV Williams building and
from there came to Smith.
Owens has been with the Smith school for
11 years now, always working in the
admissions department. She began by
assisting in the mailing of MBA program
brochures to prospective students and then
after a few months transitioned into her
current role, where she manages the
admissions process for all full time and
part time MBA applicants. This means that
she touches every single application that
comes in to the school for consideration.
Owens manages the application process from
beginning to end, which includes application
reviews, scheduling interviews and sending
out decision packets.
One of the things Owens likes most about
working here at Smith is the sense of
community alive at the school, not only with
her wonderful co-workers but also with all
of the prospective students that she gets to
meet through the admissions process. She
also really enjoys getting to meet the
prospective international students and
hearing about their countries.
Owens is currently earning her
undergraduate degree from University College
in business and management with a minor in
HR, which she hopes to complete by 2010.
Everyone at the Smith School would like to
congratulate Amy on her celebration of 20
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►Larry
Gordon was an invited speaker on
"Economic Aspects of Information
Security" at the Financial Fortress
Leadership Group (FFLG) in New York City
on May 1. The FFLG consists of senior
information security officers from large
New York area banks and brokerage firms.
►The
paper by, Anil Gupta and Petkova,
Antoaneta, "Antecedents of Variations in
Knowledge Flows Across Inter-Unit Dyads
Within the Large Multinational
Corporation") has been selected as one
of the finalists for the Best Paper
Award at the annual meeting of the
Academy of International Business. Anil
Gupta has been elected to the board of
directors of OriGene Technologies, a
pioneer in the development of patented
processes for the isolation of
full-length cDNA and rapid expression
profiling techniques. Unlike many
biotech companies, OriGene is already
profitable, cash flow positive, and
growing at over 30 percent annually. It
is backed by some of the leading VCs in
the US and Asia.
►Ben
Hallen is one of six finalists for
the Business Policy and Strategy
Division of the Academy of Management
Best Dissertation competition and one of
four finalists for the Technology and
Innovation Management (TIM) Division of
the Academy of Management Best
Dissertation competition.
►P.K.
Kannan's Marketing Science article,
"New Product Development under Channel
Acceptance" (co-authored with Lan Luo
and Brian Ratchford) has been chosen as
a finalist for the 2007 John D.C. Little
Award for the best marketing paper
published in Marketing Science
and Management Science in the
year 2007. The winner will be announced
at the Marketing Science Conference at
Vancouver, this June.
►MingFeng
Lin (Doctoral Student, DOIT) (who
works with Siva Viswanathan) has been
selected for the prestigious Oxford
Internet Institute's Summer Doctoral
Program. Mingfeng Lin's submission also
won the "PhD Student Research in
Progress" Award from the Dingman Center
for Entrepreneurship.
►Roland
Rust was appointed one of the 14
Academic Trustees of the Marketing
Science Institute. MSI is the leading
organization for connecting academic
research in marketing with the issues
most important to top corporations.
►Lemma
Senbet was an invited presenter on
financial sector reforms in Africa at an
IMF forum for high level policy makers,
including central bank governors (which
took place in Tunis in March). He was
also an invited participant at the
George Bush Africa forum, alongside many
distinguished guests, where the
President provided a detailed report on
his recent trip to Africa. Lemma also
just returned from the conference on
Corporate Governance and Reemergence
from Bankruptcy sponsored by the
Weinberg Center for Corporate
Governance, where he served on a panel
alongside numerous prominent CEOs and
bankruptcy experts.
►Galit
Shmueli was appointed as associate
editor of the IMS journal Annals of
Applied Statistics.
►Siva
Viswanathan is co-organizing the
Fourth Workshop on Ad Auctions to be
held in conjunction with the ACM
Conference on Electronic Commerce
(EC'08) July 8-9 in Chicago. |
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Technology@Smith |
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Organizations in Blackboard:
What Are They?
Organization spaces are just like course
spaces for a Committee, Student Group,
Department, Research Group, or Grant -
they have the same tools and functions
as a regular Blackboard course. The big
difference is that YOU, as Org “leader”
manage the participants and leaders of
the space. Everything inside the space
works just the same way as it does in
your term-based courses. Organization
Leaders can create discussion forums and
collaboration spaces, save files in the
content collection, send announcements,
send email to participants, hold Wimba
sessions....
How can you request an Organization
space in Blackboard ?
If a student organization would like a
Blackboard space for they organization,
a faculty or staff sponsor must request
it for them. Once requested, the sponsor
can assign a student as "leader" but
should remain in the group to oversee
activity.
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Bulletin Board
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Smith School Documentary to Premiere on MPT
on May 6
Don't forget! The Smith School's
one-hour documentary "The Transformation Age"
will debut on Maryland Public Television on
Tuesday, May 6 at 10:30 p.m. On Monday, May 5
at 7:30 p.m. documentary Host Bob Cringely and Smith School Dean
Howard Frank will be guests on MPT's "Direct
Connection" to discuss the documentary.
Visit the Smith School's educator's guide
for more information and video clips:
www.rhsmith.umd.edu/transformationage
Israel
Ambassador to Speak in VMH on May 5
His Excellency Sallai Meridor,
Ambassador of Israel to the United States,
will speak at the University of Maryland on
Monday, May 5 at 5 p.m. in Tyser Auditorium,
VMH, in celebration of Israel's 60th
anniversary. Immediately followed by a
festive appetizer and dessert reception with
the Ambassador, Faculty, Students and
Friends of the Joseph and Alma Gildenhorn
Institute for Israel Studies. The Lecture
and reception are free and open to the
public. We look forward to seeing you
there. For more information call:
301.405.3334
Smith Canned Food Drive
Thank you for your continued support with
the Food Drive! Many of you have donated to
this wonderful cause and many of you have
indicated that you still would like to
donate items to the food drive. We are
extending the food drive until Tuesday, May
6, 2008. With all of your support and
donations our donation will make a huge
impact on the Capital Area Food Bank to help
to feed the hungry throughout the
Washington, D.C., metro area. There are
green receptacles located near the VMH doors
which receive the heaviest traffic through
Van Munching Hall. Please drop your
donations off there. For more information
about the Capital Area Food Bank please
visit:
www.capitalareafoodbank.org.
Admitted
MBA Students Came out to get a Glimpse at
Smith
All students admitted to the full-time
MBA Class of 2010 were invited visit the
Smith School on April 4-5. During their
visit, current first-year and second-year
students welcomed the new students to the
school and showed them what it would be like
during their time here at Smith. In between
personal conversations over lunch and
dinner, admitted students had the
opportunity to go to information sessions
about the programs that Smith offers and
financial aid, as well as attend a class
simulation with Professor Joseph Bailey. The
weekend provided the admitted students with
the chance to ask all the questions they
still needed answers to and meet their
future classmates. It also gave current
students the chance to provide some insight
to individuals that could one day become
fellow Smith Alum.
Smith
Students Keep Blogs on MBA Experience
Four Smith MBA students are keeping blogs of
their MBA experience. Check them out!
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http://blogs.rhsmith.umd.edu/donna
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http://blogs.rhsmith.umd.edu/lettie
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http://blogs.rhsmith.umd.edu/adam
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http://blogs.rhsmith.umd.edu/pete |
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May 2, 2008
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Smith School
History
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As enrollment skyrockets after the
end of World War II, faculty also
increases from 18-76. The first MBA
degrees are granted to five students
of Dr. John Frederick, who joined the
faculty in 1946 from the University of
Texas and brought his graduate students
with him.
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Smith Newslink
MBA is a production of the Office of Marketing
Communications in cooperation with the Masters Programs
Office.
Smith Media
Group
Loretta Goodridge
MBA Candidate 2008
Smith Newslink MBA Editor
Pete Baird
MBA Candidate 2009
Donna Lin
MBA Candidate 2009
Adam Weiner
MBA Candidate 2009
Other Contributors:
Office of Marketing Communications
Office of Smith IT
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