After Philip Levy kept his family waiting for six hours outside the famous Blackwell’s Books in Oxford, England, he decided to open his own bookstore back home in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington D.C..                                 […]

Students in the Robert H. Smith School of Business will soon have an opportunity to see their comments and suggestions for the school turned into action. Adam Saunders, Vice President of Administration for SUSA, announced at last week’s SUSA Assembly meeting that the assembly’s biweekly meetings will now shift […]

Robert H. Smith Business School students visited corporations and networked with University of Maryland alumni in the workforce on the annual Smith Undergraduate Student Association (SUSA) New York City trip last weekend. The official trip was from Thursday Oct. 21 to Friday Oct. 22, but many of the 116 students […]

Although many Americans are very concerned with the internal economic problems plaguing their country, Lemma Senbet, the William E. Mayer chair professor of finance, understands the importance of looking at the growth of the global economy. Senbet has largely focused on the economies in Africa, where most of his recent […]

It’s a place of stark contrasts. Amid acres of rolling farmland sits a small stone house built in the early 1740s. Behind it, several state-of-the-art greenhouses stretch hundreds of feet long. To the side, rows of shiny Ford pickups are parked by an abandoned barn and silo.  As the sun […]

Faculty and the leaders of the Smith Undergraduate Student Association (SUSA) are interested in getting more students involved in the business school’s activities. Chris Coraggio, SUSA president, said that about 1,000 students are directly involved in the business school’s clubs and SUSA, which provides involvement opportunities, but there are […]

Tony Hsieh helps deliver new shoes to your doorstep the day after an order is placed, for no extra cost. How many times have you gone to the mall with a specific shoe in mind, and after visiting multiple stores been unable to find it in the right size and […]

Pumpkins, candy corn, and relay races are not usually part of the multidisciplinary, reality-based learning experiences that QUEST staff members organize. But QUEST students are in charge of planning the program’s community events and have integrated them into the program’s groundwork. QUEST, Smith’s Honors Fellows program that focuses on innovation, […]

The Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute (Mtech) presented one of the newest Honors College programs on campus: the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program. The EIP team consists of three core members: Jay A. Smith, the program director, Dr. David F. Barbe, the faculty director, and Alyssa E. Cohen Sherman, the coordinator […]

Many aspects of BMGT221 allow students to find their niche. Gregory A. Pfeiffer teaches BMGT221, an accounting class.  According to Testudo, its prerequisite is BMGT220, which deals with financial accounting.  This second level of the two-part introductory Principles of Accounting course centers around the “basic theory and techniques of […]