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Smith Hosts 23rd Annual MBA Case
Competition
Smith's 23rd annual full-time MBA Case
Competition brought students, alumni,
faculty, and administrators together for
a week of intense competition. Four
teams presented strategies for the
diamond industry and the De Beers
Company to a distinguished panel of
judges on Saturday, October 7, 2006. The
judges selected Elysian & Associates as
winners of the case competition. Each of
the five members of Elysian & Associates
won $1,000 and glory for their efforts.
Team members were Christopher Mandozzi,
Mark Slusser, Mauricio Klecky, Susannah
Campbell, and William Graf.
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Student Leadership Profile: Ben Fishman
The sun is so bright in Plato’s Diner
Monday morning that we have to lower the
blinds. Smith MBA Association President
Ben Fishman shifts in his seat and
directs me to my left, thoughtfully
helping me to avoid the glare. “Is that
better?” he asks.
Making things better, pushing for the
bold and daring is what Ben likes to do
best. He ran for president of the MBA
student body because he’s interested in
longevity at Smith.
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Registration
Announcement!
Spring Semester registration for all
students begins
Tuesday, October 24, 2006. It is a
tiered registration system.
To determine which registration group
you are in –
and therefore which time you can
register – visit
http://www.mbanetworth.rhsmith.umd.edu/mbacop/
PortalHub.nsf/ID/spring2007_ftregistration.
Only students who are current with the
bursar’s office are allowed to register.
To determine if your tuition is paid,
visit
http://www.umd.edu/bursar.
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BusinessWeek Ranks Smith School
MBA Program #25, #12 in Measure of
Faculty Contributions to Academic
Journals
The MBA program at the Smith School is
ranked No. 25 in the United States in
BusinessWeek’s 2006 survey of “The
Best B-Schools.” The rankings, which are
published every other year, were based
on a survey of the graduating class of
2006, a survey of corporate recruiters
and a measure of “intellectual capital”
– the number of faculty articles
published in a list of top 20 academic
journals. Smith is ranked No. 12 among
all U.S. schools in the intellectual
capital category.
This year, BusinessWeek sent a
50-question Web-based survey to more
than 16,500 Class of 2006 graduates at
100 schools, asking them to rate
everything from teaching quality to the
effectiveness of career services at
their schools on a scale of 1 to 10.
Their responses count for 50 percent of
the total student satisfaction score,
with the other half coming from
responses from the two previous rankings
in 2004 and 2002. Corporate recruiters
were invited to fill out a similar
online survey.
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School Rankings
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 7th
Annual CIO Forum -- November 3
Join us on Friday, November 3, for
the Seventh Annual Smith CIO Forum as we
welcome Ted
Leonsis, vice chairman of AOL,
in addition to presenters from Intel,
IBM, Booz Allen Hamilton, Deloitte,
Fusepoint, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and
members of the Smith School faculty. An
exciting agenda is in place for this
day-long event, themed The Strategic
Use of Information Technology. The
first topic area -- Digital Commerce
-- will provide insights into creating
competitive advantage through the use of
IT. The second topic -- Health IT and
Implications for Business -- will
address challenges associated with
building an integrated, interoperable,
nationwide health information system. In
conjunction with the forum, a poster
session competition is being held for
MBA students, with a top prize of
$1,000.
You won't want to miss this unique
opportunity to network with key leaders,
high-level professionals and researchers
from around the country. We hope to see
you on November 3! For more
information on the CIO Forum and to
register online, visit
www.rhsmith.umd.edu/cioforum
(E-mail Faye Baker at
fbaker@rhsmith.umd.edu for the
student discount code.)
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MBA
Consulting Club to Host Annual
Consulting Forum
The Smith MBA Consulting Club invites
the Smith community - full-time and
part-time students, alumni and faculty -
to attend its annual Consulting Forum on
Friday, October 20.
This year's panels will focus on trends
in different segments of the consulting
industry, as well as a 360-degree
discussion of the ever-important
client-consultant relationship. Featured
companies include Deloitte,
BearingPoint, PricewaterhouseCoopers,
and Booz Allen Hamilton.
The event is business formal. To sign
up, please stop by the table set up in
Van Munching Hall on the first floor
atrium. Tickets are $15 the week of
October 9, $20 the week of October 16,
and $25 at the door. For more
information, visit
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November EMBA
Elective Course in Shanghai
Five members of College Park's EMBA 6
will travel to Shanghai, China, to
attend a Leadership Development elective
course taught by Dr. Gilad Chen, Nov.
16-19. They will be keeping a daily blog
while they are there. Check the next
issue for more information.
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CareerQuest a
Success
 The
Robert H. Smith School of Business at
the University of Maryland hosted this
year’s CareerQuest job fair for graduate
business students on Friday, October 13,
2006. CareerQuest brought together
employers from all industries and
students from several universities in
the Mid-Atlantic region. Representatives
from McCandlish Holton were available
during the job fair to address
international student concerns about
employment in the United States.
 Recruiters
from Campbell’s Soup, Citigroup, Exxon
Mobil, and a host of other companies
answered students’ questions about
internships and full-time positions.
Several Smith students were able to
reconnect with recruiters from the Black
MBA Career Fair in Atlanta, Georgia.
First-year Smith MBA student Pratik
Laheri said, “I thought this was a great
networking opportunity. The employers
attending the fair were top notch. I
also met a lot of MBA students from
other schools.” Laheri advised
first-year MBA students “to consider
CareerQuest as an opportunity to learn
about different employers and to
network.”
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Ethics Lecture Series Highlights:
At KPMG Ethics & Compliance Issues Are
in Balance
On Wednesday, October 4, the Smith
School welcomed Teresa Iannaconi, a
partner at KPMG, to its Business Ethics
Lecture Series. Iannaconi, MBA , spoke
to a room filled with students on the
topic of The Pursuit of a Model
Ethics and Compliance Program for a
Registered Public Accounting Firm.
Iannaconi was named the chair of KPMG's
newly created Ethics and Compliance
Committee (ECC) in 2003. She says she
was thrilled to lead this
precedent-setting initiative, and to
this day knows of no other similar
committee. At KPMG Iannaconi basically
started from scratch and built up the
Ethics and Compliance Committee to what
it is now - a critical part of the KPMG
business model reporting directly to the
Board of Directors. The next segment of
the series is on October 25.
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Digital Economy
Forum |
Lemma Senbet Honored by School for
Contributions
Lemma Senbet, William E. Mayer Professor of
Finance, was honored for his many years of
service to the finance department, and the
school, at a lavish dinner party at the
Cosmos Club in Washington, D.C., on October
5, 2006. The gala event was attended by
about 90 people, including all the former
chairs of the department, and a past dean of
the University of Washington, who flew in
specially for the event. Former Smith School
Deans Rudy Lamone and Bill Mayer were also
present to express their appreciation for
Lemma’s many contributions to the Smith
School community.
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Smith School in the News |
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►BusinessWeek
– Oct. 23, 2006 – The Smith School
is ranked No. 25 in the United States in
the biennial MBA program rankings issue.
The cover story also includes a sidebar
about an uptrend in companies choosing
custom MBA programs, which mention’s
Smith’s Otis Elevator program and
includes insight from Judy Frels,
senior director of custom programs.
Posted online Oct. 12, 2006.
►Read more
►The
New York Times – Oct. 12, 2006 – A
story about MBA consulting programs
includes mention of Smith’s program and
a quote from faculty program coordinator
and marketing professor Bob Krapfel.
Also includes an interview with CEO of
Fortius One, a portfolio company that
completed a project with Smith MBAs last
year.
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►The
(Baltimore) Sun – Oct. 11, 2006 –
Finance professor Elinda Kiss is
quoted in an article about Legg Mason’s
stock plunging after earnings
projections for the company, which last
year swapped business units with
Citigroup, missed their mark. Kiss is a
former Citigroup employee.
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►The
(Baltimore) Sun – Oct. 10, 2006 – A
story about PNC Bank’s acquisition of
Baltimore-based Mercantile Bankshares
includes info from an interview with
finance professor Haluk Unal and
mentions his research.
►Read more
►The
Daily Record – Oct. 11, 2006 –
Coverage of the PNC/Mercantile merger
includes two stories on consecutive days
with quotes from Haluk Unal,
finance professor.
►Read more
and
Oct. 10, 2006
►Marketplace–
Oct. 10, 2006 – Albert “Pete” Kyle,
finance professor, is interviewed on
Marketplace about investigating private
equity funds.
►Read more and
listen online
►Asia
Times – Oct. 11, 2006 – Business
professor Peter Morici writes an
opinion article about the economy.
►Read more
►60
Minutes, CBS News – Oct. 8, 2006 –
Smith School alum Carly Fiorina,
former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, is
interviewed about her time at the
company, her firing and her new book,
“Tough Choices,” which includes a
chapter about her time at the Smith
School.
►Read more
►Wall
Street Journal Online – Oct. 6, 2006
– Business professor Peter Morici
comments on employment data as part of a
regular roundup from economists.
►Read more
►Wall
Street Journal Online – Oct. 5, 2006
– A story about the Win in China
reality show mentions Smith School
scholarships go to the winners.
►Read more
►Read More from Smith School in the News
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Spotlight:
Assistant Dean Christine
Stewart
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 Christine
Stewart serves as the assistant dean for
administration at the Smith School. Stewart
is a CPA and has held a number of positions
in the Maryland Association of CPAs,
including president. She is also a
contributing author to two books:
Community Bank Guide to Asset/Liability
Management Policies (1991) and Strategic
Financial Management for Commercial Banks
(1993) and has been on the faculty of a
number of banking schools including the
Graduate School of Banking, and the
Maryland, Ohio, and Mississippi Schools of
Banking.
As assistant dean for administration
Stewart oversees a variety of the Smith
School’s daily operations such as finance,
accounting, HR, and building operations. The
diversity of functions is one of the things
she likes most about her job. Her daily
tasks change every five minutes. Even though
Stewart is required to wear multiple hats
her main responsibility is the financial
aspect. She meets with Dean Howard Frank
once a week, and they work on the school’s
five-year rolling forecast - a document
Stewart says she is changing throughout the
day, everyday. She is continually
recalibrating and reforecasting.
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Thursday, October 19,
7:30 p.m.
Friday, October 20,
6:00 a.m.
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Employment Trends in
2006: a special Maryland
Public
Television report from
Smith’s Undergraduate Career
Fair
Investors, consumers and
businesses have had a number
of concerns in 2006: high
fuel prices,
less-than-stellar job growth
and volatile swings in the
stock market. What are top
employers looking for and
what can recent graduates
expect?
Don’t miss Maryland
Public Television reporter
Mindy Mintz’s special report
from the Smith School's
first Undergraduate Career
Fair. Tune in on Thursday,
October 19, at 7:30 p.m. or
Friday, October 20, at 6
a.m. to find out more about
what top employers and
recruiters are looking for
and for an assessment of job
trends from Smith’s Office
of Career Management team,
Peter Brown and Monica
Shutte.
■ WMPB-TV
(Ch. 67), Baltimore
■ WMPT-TV (Ch. 22), D.C. metro/Annapolis
■ WCPB-TV (Ch. 28), Salisbury
■ WFPT-TV (Ch. 62), Frederick
■ WWPB-TV (Ch. 31), Hagerstown
■ WGPT-TV (Ch. 36), Oakland
►Watch previous episodes online.
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Technology@Smith
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UPDATE YOUR UNIVERSITY
PASSWORD!!
The University Office of Information
Technology recently sent out this message regarding important changes to the
University Directory Password. Please read
it carefully. In addition to the systems
mentioned below, the University Directory
Password is also used to access Blackboard
and the eSmith Portal.
To the University Community:
In order to comply with state and
University System of Maryland audit and
security requirements, new rules are now in
effect for University Directory passwords.
Your Directory password is used by many
university systems including Testudo, PHR,
Mail@umd, VPN, and the wireless network.
Please note that systems that do not use the
Directory (including WAM, Glue, DEANS, many
departmental systems, and your Windows or
Novell logins) are not affected by this
change.
All Directory passwords created before
August 16, 2006 will expire in early
November. New passwords remain valid for up
to 180 days. If you allow your password to
expire, you will be unable to access
services that utilize the Directory password
until you have selected a new password.
Reminder messages will be sent to the e-mail
address listed for you in either Testudo or
PHR as your expiration date draws near.
To get additional information on password
issues or to select a new
password, please visit the University
Directory Password Web page at
http://password.umd.edu.
If you have questions, please contact
the Student Help Desk at
301.405.1400 or the Faculty/Staff Help Desk
at 301.405.1500.
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Update Your Virus Protection
Our installations of McAfee are set to
automatically update virus definitions,
however, when security exploits are
announced, this needs to be done more
frequently. To protect your computer please
manually update your McAfee virus
definitions as soon as possible. To do this,
1. Right click on the red "V" in the taskbar
at the bottom right of your computer screen.
2. Choose "update now" and it will update to
the latest version of "dat."
Of course, new viruses or "exploits" are
most likely being created, so you should
routinely manually run McAfee updates daily.
Update Your Windows Critical Patches
If you have a computer with our software
image (such as your office computer), that
PC is set to automatically update critical
Windows patches overnight. We recommend that
you remain logged into Novell overnight, and
THEN RE-BOOT YOUR COMPUTER IN THE MORNING.
This will download the latest critical
patches available for Windows, and when you
re-boot your computer in the morning they
will be installed.
►More information on the latest Microsoft
Advisories
As always, the Office of Smith IT
recommends that you distrust all
communication (attachments, files, links,
etc.) that comes unannounced to best protect
yourself from malicious attacks.
►DOWNLOAD INSTRUCTIONS TO REPORT SPAM IN
POSTINI
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October 19, 2006
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FALL TERM 2006
11/23-24 Thanksgiving Holiday
12/12
Last Day of Classes
12/13
Study Day
12/14-20
Final Exams
12/20 UM
Commencement
12/21
Smith Commencement
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Calendar
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Smith School
History
1965
The college's first major research grand
- $182,500 - is received from the Federal Bureau of
Public Roads to fund a two-year study of public
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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
Editor
Susannah Campbell
MBA Candidate 2007
Webmaster
Mark Mulvanny
MBA Candidate 2007
Sachin Agarwal
MBA Candidate 2007
Loretta Goodridge
MBA Candidate 2008
Camille Hoff-Kain
MBA Candidate 2008
Other Contributors:
Office of Marketing Communications
Office of Smith IT
Send comments or submissions to:
newslink@rhsmith.umd.edu
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Upcoming Conferences, Career Fairs & Forums
10/26 – 10/28 National
Society of Hispanic MBAs Conference & Career Fair
10/27 Careerbuilder.com
Career Fair (Washington, DC)
10/27 – 10/29 Net Impact
Annual Conference (Chicago, IL)
10/27 2006 Logistics
Transportation and Supply Chain Management Industry Day
(Stamp Student Union)
11/02 – 11/04 Global MBA
Career Fair (Orlando, FL)
11/03 CIO Forum (UMD)
11/03 – 11/04 National
Association of Women MBAs Conference
11/8 i2i Networking Series
(Chicago, IL)
11/11 12th Annual
Cybersymposium (Boston, MA)
11/17 – 11/19
Japanese-English Bilingual Career Forum (Boston, MA)
Upcoming
Competitions
10/30 – TBD Booz Allen
Hamilton Case Competition (1st years only, UMD)
11/03 Cornell Stock Pitch
Competition (Smith team selected, Ithaca, NY)
11/04 University of Chicago
IPO Challenge (Chicago, IL)
11/09 – 11/11 Howard
University Annual Supply Chain Competition (Washington,
DC)
11/17 UNC Alpha Challenge
(Chapel Hill, NC)
11/17 – 11/18 Thunderbird
University 2006 i4 Challenge (online)
11/29 Global Social
Entrepreneurship Competition (University of Washington)
12/10 National University
of Singapore Global MBA Challenge (online)
12/15 GE/Dow Jones
Environmental Business Plan Competition (online)
Online Procter & Gamble’s Just-in-Case Online
Competition & Job Application
Online Group Danone’s Trust 3 Competition (organizing
now)
Online L’Oreal’s e-Strat Challenge (REGISTER 09/28 –
11/28)
Internal Events
10/20 Consulting Forum
10/21 Alumni Mentor
Kick-off Event
10/23 1st Annual First-Year
Fiesta
10/25 Ethics Lecture
Series: Robert Colson, Partner, Grant Thornton,
“Challenges to Professionalism in the Business World”
11/08 Ethics Lecture
Series: Leslie Fair, Attorney, Federal Trade Commission,
“The Truth About False Advertising: Why Ethical
Marketing Isn’t an Oxymoron”
11/13 Carly P. Fiorina
Networking and Book Signing Event (Tysons Corner, VA)
Companies Onsite
(10/06 to 10/21)
10/20
Meisel, Tuteur & Lewis
10/20 M&T Bank
10/23 Raytheon Corporate
Presentation
10/24 IBM Global Business
Services Public Sector Interview
10/24 BB&T (EOD and
Corporate Overview)
10/24 Daiichi Sankyo
Corporate Presentation
10/24 Opnet Technologies
Corporate Presentation
10/25 Constellation Energy
10/25 Intelliworks, Inc.
10/26 Eli Lilly Company
Interview
10/26 Northwestern Mutual
Financial Network
10/27
PricewaterhouseCoopers Interview
10/30 First Annapolis
Consulting
10/30 Ameriprise Interview
10/30 Rubino & McGeehin,
Chartered Interview
10/31 Black & Decker
Interview
10/31 Government
Accountability Office
11/01 US Technology
Resources Corporate Presentation
11/02 Ernst and Young (EOD)
11/02 M&T Bank Interview
11/02 McLean, Koehler,
Sparks & Hammond
11/02 Enterprise Rent-A-Car
11/03 PA Consulting Group
11/06 Legg Mason (EOD)
REGISTER on SOURCE now! Visit SOURCE for the most recent
updates on companies recruiting on campus.
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