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News
Briefs |
 2008 Smith Leadership and Excellence Awards
Do you know a business leader who has made a
significant and positive impact on the
mid-Atlantic region? The Smith School is now
accepting nominations for the 2008 Smith
Leadership and Excellence Awards, which may
be submitted online. Deadline for
nominations is Wednesday, Nov. 21.
►www.rhsmith.umd.edu/awards
Smith to Host
Inaugural
M&A
Case Competition
October 11-12
1524 Van Munching Hall
Teams from top U.S. business school,
including Carnegie Mellon, Chicago,
Columbia, University of Virginia, Yale, and
Smith, will compete for glory and $8,500 in
cash prizes in this competition that
simulates an actual mergers and acquisition
pitch meeting to Wall Street executives. The
free event includes a reception beginning at
4:30 p.m. on Oct. 12 that gives attendees an
opportunity to network with students, Smith
faculty and distinguished guests. The
Smith School community is invited cheer on
the Smith team!
►RSVP
Now!
Smith to Host 25th Annual National Women MBA Conference
Thursday, November 1
The Smith School of Business has the
honor of hosting the 25th Annual National
Women MBAs Conference and Career Fair, Nov.
2-3, 2007. The event is expected to attract
more than 1,000 MBA students and women
executives. The keynotes for this year's
conference will be Raytheon's Louise
Francesconi, Campbell Soup Company's Irene
Chang Britt, and IBM's Lisa Tondreau.
►Full
Story/Register Now!
Socially Responsible Business Plan
Competition
The William James Foundation is
currently holding a business plan
competition that focuses on socially
responsible business ideas. The idea behind
the competition is to support and encourage
entrepreneurs that are interested in
creating businesses that integrate socially
and/or environmental values into their
everyday operation. The deadline for
the first round of competition is Friday,
Nov. 16 at 5 p.m. EST. To enter you need to
submit a three- to five-page general summary
of your idea. If invited to participate in
the second round you will be required to
submit a full business plan of 30-50 pages
in length. The final round of competition is
a presentation in front of the public. First
prize for the competition is $3,000, second
is $2,000 and $1,000 for third. To get more
information and details on the event you can
visit the foundation's Web site at
www.williamjamesfoundation.org.
MBAs from Mid-Atlantic Region Gather at UM
for Career Quest 2007
On Sept. 28, MBA students from
around the region gathered at the
University of Maryland’s Samuel Riggs IV
Alumni Center to participate in MBA
Career Quest 2007. The Robert H. Smith
School of Business was one of eight
sponsoring institutions and the host of
this year’s event. Students representing
15 institutions spent the day networking
with approximately 60 different
employers from across the region and
around the country.
►Full Story
Smith MBA's Web Site SlyReply.com Voted “Web
Site of the Week” by WTOP Radio
Washington, D.C., radio station WTOP
selected second-year MBA student Tom
Hessen’s Web site SlyReply.com as “Web Site
of the Week” in September 2007. Hessen’s
site is a group messaging site that he
created during his first year of the Smith
MBA program. He was able to create most of
it during winter and spring breaks and is
continuing to develop the site now during
his second year, creating additional
functionality.
►Full Story
Russell Ackoff Speaks
at Smith
On Sept. 28, 2007, Dr. Russell Ackoff,
Anheuser-Busch Professor Emeritus of
Management Science at the Wharton School
and executive education senior fellow at
the Smith School, spoke to a class of
executives in a custom executive education
program at the Smith School. Ackoff is a regular
speaker in the executive MBA program and
was described in his introduction by
Gerald Suarez, Tyser Teaching Fellow, as "one of
the most insightful thinkers of our
time." Pictured, l
to r, Gerald Suarez, Russell Ackoff, Rob
Sheehan.
►Full Story
Sports Marketing Guru Sonny Vaccaro
Speaks at Smith
 It
takes guts to call the NCAA “the most
fraudulent organization that ever lived”
in front of a packed auditorium on a
campus where the Terps athletic teams
hold high esteem. But chutzpah is
something Sonny Vaccaro, a sports
marketing legend best known for
brokering major endorsement deals with
basketball stars the likes of Michael
Jordan and Kobe Bryant, certainly does
not lack.
About 200 Robert H. Smith School of
Business students — the majority of
which participate in the Undergraduate
Fellows Program — filled Van Munching
Hall’s Frank Auditorium the evening of
Wednesday, Sept. 26 to hear an
animated Vaccaro speak about his
experiences working more than four
decades in the sports business.
►Full Story
Reznick Group’s Kurtis Wolff Talks
Ethics With Smith School Students
 On
Monday, Sept. 17, the Robert
H. Smith School of Business welcomed Kurtis A. Wolff,
Principal in Charge
of Audit and Assurance at the Reznick
Group, to its Business Ethics Lecture
Series. Wolff, speaking to a large crowd
of Smith School students, shared his
thoughts on “Ethics Everyday in Public
Accounting.” Wolff shared his experiences in
accounting and auditing with the group
both from his time at Reznick, a top-20
public accounting firm, as well as from
his prior experiences within the
industry.The next Business Ethics
Lecture Series will be held on Oct. 15
at 5:30 p.m. and will feature Nancy
Grunberg, Esquire, Venable LLP.
►Full Story
More Events
Technology Start-Up Boot Camp
Friday, Oct. 19,
UM Stamp Student Union, Grand Ballroom
Should you take the leap into technology
entrepreneurship? What are the best ways to
fund your new venture? Is your incredible
idea a real venture opportunity? How do you
build a "dream team"? What’s the key to a
killer business plan? The University of
Maryland's Technology Start-Up Boot Camp is
an intensive, one-day workshop and
networking event about launching new
ventures. This event is free for
students.
►www.bootcamp.umd.edu
The New New Internet: Web 2.0 for Business
Thursday, Nov. 1,
Hyatt Regency, Reston, VA
The Smith School has teamed up with
ExecutiveBiz to present the region’s major
annual Web conference, featuring a
nationally recognized lineup of engaging
speakers and panelists, two tracks for
industry and government attendees, a Web 2.0
application competition, and much more. The
Smith community may register at the
discounted Smith School rate of $495 using
discount code: rhsmith.
►Register Now!
Innovation and Globalization
Conference
Thursday, Nov. 8 -- Friday, Nov. 9, Van
Munching Hall
Learn how to manage the challenges involved
with research and development, intellectual
property and other concerns related to
innovation and globalization at this
conference sponsored by the Smith School’s
Center for International Business Education
and Research (CIBER).
►Find out more
8th Annual CIO Forum: Technology and
Innovation
Friday, Nov. 9, Van Munching Hall
How do CIOs inculcate an innovation culture
in the organization? How do they evolve new
business models and new business practices
that are built on the capabilities of new
information technologies? Find out at the
8th Annual CIO Forum, featuring keynote
speaker Lemuel Lasher, CIO and president of
Computer Sciences Corp.’s Office of
Innovation.
►Register Now!
University
Update
►Flu
Vaccine Available at Health Center
Schedule an appointment now with the UM
Health Center for your Flu Vaccine! Call
301-314-8184. Cost is $20 for faculty and
staff, $16 for students and $25 for non-UM
persons. * Note: Please bring a valid
University ID card to receive the student or
faculty/staff prices. Charges can be billed
to your student account or pay by cash,
credit, or Terrapin Express at the pharmacy.
Cash only for non-UM. Visit
www.health.umd.edu/updates.html for more
information.
►Safety
Certification Classes
Campus Recreation Services is now offering
safety certification classes. Learn the
knowledge and skills necessary to prevent,
recognize, and provide basic care for
adults, infants and children! The classes
being offered are:
Sat, Oct. 6, Infant/Child CPR, 10 a.m. -
2:30 p.m.
Tues, Oct. 9, Adult CPR/AED, 5:30 - 10 p.m.
Wed, Nov. 14, Adult CPR/AED, 5:30 - 10 p.m.
Sat, Nov. 17, Standard First Aid with AED ,
8:30 a.m.- 3 p.m.
Sun, Dec. 2,
Infant/Child CPR, 10 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.
►Register Online now! www.crs.umd.edu
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Smith School in the News |
►Washington
Post – Sept. 30, 2007 – Business
professor Peter Morici is quoted
in a story about housing market
declines.
►Read more
►Washington
Times – Sept. 28, 2007 – A sports
business blogger writes about Sonny
Vaccaro’s speech to students. He
highlights Smith's upcoming Sports
Management Fellows Program.
►Read more
►The
(Baltimore) Sun – Sept. 27, 2007 – A
Sun sports columnist writes about sports
marketing legend Sonny Vaccaro’s speech
to Smith School students as part of the
Freshman Fellows fall speaker
series. He includes quotes from a
student.
►Read more
►Washington
Post – Sept. 27, 2007 – Business
professor Peter Morici is quoted
in a story about Montgomery County,
Md.’s average home prices.
►Read more
►USA
Today – Sept. 27, 2007 – Supply
chain and strategy professor Curt
Grimm is quoted in a story about
rail transportation.
►Read more
►Wall
Street Journal.com – Sept. 27, 2007
– Business professor Peter Morici
is quoted in a blog entry about GM
stock.
►Read more
►CNN:
“Lou Dobbs Tonight” – Sept. 26, 2007
– Business professor Peter Morici
is interviewed in segment about GM.
►Read more
►Wall
Street Journal.com – Sept. 26, 2007
– Business professor Peter Morici
is quoted in an online report about GM
and UAW’s contract negotiations.
►Read more
►American
Public Media: “Marketplace Money” –
Sept. 21, 2007 – Business professor
Peter Morici is interviewed about
the Fed’s rate cut and what it means for
consumers.
►Read more and
listen online
►China
Daily – Sept. 20, 2007 – Professor
Anil Gupta writes an article
about innovation in China.
►Read more
►CBS Evening News – Sept.
24, 2007 –Smith's Peter Morici on CBS Evening News: "Is a Weak Dollar Good?"
►Watch
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Spotlight |
Student Leadership Profile:
Alex Obaza, MBA Finance Association
Co-President
 Many
students find the process of learning
about the finance industry challenging.
Alex Obaza is here to help. As
co-president of the Smith MBA Finance
Association, Obaza leads the club in the
process of preparing its members for
their job/internship searches in the
finance industry. Obaza says that
preparation of the students is the main
goal of the Finance Association, but
the club goes beyond just that. According to Obaza, “We also want to continue to
build relationships with alumni in
capital markets and pass those
relationships on to the first year
students and we made it a priority to
increase the interaction between first- and second-year students over last
year.” Through the efforts of the club, Obaza hopes to grow the finance
community here at Smith.
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Smith
Business Close-Up |
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Sunday,
October 7, 7:30 a.m.
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New Markets Growth Fund - Leading
Early Stage Venture Capitalism in the
D.C. Area |
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In this week's edition of
Smith Business Close-Up, Rajesh Rai,
principal and co-founder of New Markets
Growth Fund, discusses the $20 million
venture capital fund located at the
Smith School, that invests in
high-growth technology companies and
start-ups in the Baltimore/Washington,
D.C. area.
New Markets Growth Fund's investors
include a wide range of individual
investors as well as companies from both
the private and public sector and
economic development organizations
including Empower Baltimore and the
Maryland Department of Economic and
Business Development. To find out more
about the fund, visit
www.newmarketsfund.com
Smith Business Close-Up can be
seen bi-weekly on Maryland Public
Television's "Your Money and Business" program. Watch
Rajesh Rai on Sunday, Oct. 7 at 7:30 a.m. on
public television stations throughout
Maryland and the Washington, D.C.,
metropolitan region, including: |
■ 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
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episodes of Smith Business Close-Up on Maryland Public
Television's "Your Money and Business" can be seen online. |
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| Faculty
Up Front |
►Smith
Boasts Six INFORMS Fellows
Michael Fu, professor of management science,
and Lawrence Bodin, professor emeritus of
management science, have been named as
fellows for 2008 by the Institute for
Operations Research and the Management
Sciences (INFORMS). This singular honor,
awarded to about 2 percent of the
organization’s 11,000 members, has now been
held by six members of the Smith School’s
decision and information technologies
department. In addition to Fu and Bodin,
Saul Gass, professor emeritus of management
science; Michael Ball, Orkand Professor of
Management Science; Bruce Golden,
France-Merrick Chair in Management Science;
and Dean Howard Frank are past INFORMS
fellows.
►Full Story►October
2007: The 30 Seconds Outlook, by Jack Haslem
“Economists’ forecasting skill is
about as good as guessing.” William Sherden,
in the Wall Street Journal, July 3,
1997.
With the 50 basis points reduction in
the Fed funds rate, the Fed signaled
strongly that for now recession, not
inflation, is the primary worry. What some
considered a delayed response was motivated
to avoid rewarding speculators. But, with
turmoil in the credit markets and employment
data worrisome, the Fed felt compelled to
cut rates decisively. More rate cuts may
well follow with the peak in mortgage
defaults yet ahead. Once market liquidity
has been restored and fears of recession
have faded, inflation will again be the
focus.
►Bruce
Golden has been invited to present a plenary
lecture at a workshop on network algorithms
and applications to be held in Sicily in
September of 2008. In addition, he has
been invited to present a paper at a
workshop on vehicle routing and logistics to
be held in Oslo, Norway, in June 2008.
During the summer of 2007, he presented
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Technology@Smith |
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►Smith IT
Technote: What’s the story with WiFi on campus?
This note will try to address some of the confusion over
wireless access on campus, and guide you to campus resources
to make the most of what is available to you.
Why so many UMD WiFi networks?
Depending on the kind of wireless device you use,
you might see up to four wireless networks when on campus.
These are:
• umd
• umd-fast
• umd-secure
• umd-secure-fast
The differences between the networks aren’t obvious just
from looking at the network browser when configuring your
computer. ►Find out
more
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Bulletin Board
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 First-
and Second-Year Students Get Together for
Fall Bash
The Fall Bash, the first large MBA social
event of the year, took place on Saturday,
Sept. 29. from 8-11 p.m. and was all by
accounts a great success. The event happened
at Local 16, a bar located in D.C. at U and
16th Streets, and was hosted by the MBA
Association.
The underlying idea behind the
Fall Bash was simply to provide first-year
and second-year students a chance to get
together for a fun night out on the town.
Students enjoyed beer and mixed drink
specials along with a selection of light
appetizers outside on Local 16’s upper deck.
“The Fall Bash came together really
well…everyone who attended seemed to have a
great time,” remarked first-year MBA student
Brian Mok.
A good number of students elected to kick
off the evening with a Pre-Bash BBQ hosted
by Reid Tokarz and the MBAA. The Pre-Bash
BBQ was held at Reid’s nearby house and
started at 5 p.m. Burgers and hot dogs were
featured on the grill and beverages were
provided. “I especially enjoyed Reid’s
BBQ….it was a good way to start the night
and definitely my kind of scene,” said
first-year MBA student Ed Edson.
After the success of this first social
event, future MBAA events will certainly be
eagerly anticipated by first- and second-year
students alike. Take a look at some photos
from the event!
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| A
group of first- and second-year
students relax and mingle before the
Fall Bash at the Pre-Bash BBQ,
hosted by the MBAA and Reid Tokarz. |
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First-year MBA
students Maya Litvak, Kristen
Bourrillion, Shera Rosloff and Emily
Chan enjoy the drink specials and
the chance to catch-up outside of
class during the Fall Bash. |
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The outside upper deck at Local 16,
the bar in DC where 1st and 2nd year
students gathered for the MBAA's
Fall Bash, the first major social
MBA event of the year. |
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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
Send comments or
submissions to:
smithnewslink@rhsmith.umd.edu
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