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Smith School Names Leadership and Excellence
Award Winners
The Smith School of Business announced
the recipients of this year’s Smith
Leadership and Excellence Awards, honoring
business leaders and organizations that have
made significant and positive impacts on
their industries and the community in the
mid-Atlantic region. Smith School Dean
Howard Frank presented the 2007 awards at a
ceremony at the seventh annual Undergraduate
Awards Banquet on Thursday, May 3.
- Business Excellence Award:
Legg Mason Inc.
- Leadership Excellence Award:
Under Armour Chairman and Chief
Executive Kevin Plank '96
- Leaders for the Digital Economy
Award: Constellation Energy Chief
Information Officer Beth Perlman
(individual excellence)
Blackboard Inc. (corporate excellence)
- Public Excellence Award:
Gerald Stempler '53, former CEO of
Textilease
The 2007 honorees were selected from
nominations submitted by the regional
business and academic communities. Finalists
were judged by a distinguished panel of
business and academic leaders that included
members of the Smith School Board of
Visitors, the Dean’s Advisory Council,
faculty and staff.
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Under Armour's Kevin Plank Awards Cupid's
Cup to Goozex
The second annual Cupid’s Cup competition
was held Friday, May 4, 2007, at the Robert
H. Smith School of Business in College Park,
MD. The Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship
hosted the business competition for student-
and alumni-run startups. Under Armour Chief
Executive Kevin Plank, a 1996 Smith
graduate, put up $22,500 in prize money and
helped pick the winner of this year’s
competition — Goozex Inc. (www.goozex.com),
an award-winning, peer-to-multi-peer video
game trading company headquartered in
College Park.
Judges for this year’s competition
included Plank, executives from Under Armor
-- Matthew Mirchin, VP of North American
Sales; Jody Giles, Chief Information
Officer; and Alex Miyamoto, director of
investor relations -- along with venture
capitalists Dingman
Entrepreneur-in-Residence Tien Wong and Matt
Brock of CD Ventures.
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Smith to Graduate
1100 Business Leaders on May 21
Hear Teresa Iannaconi, MBA’78, partner with
KPMG, deliver the keynote speech at the
Smith School commencement ceremony on May
21. Iannaconi has an impressive accounting
background with 40 years of experience in
regulation and compliance, including nearly
20 years with the Securities and Exchange
Commission and 12 years with KPMG, one of
the Big Four accounting firms. Susannah
Campbell is the MBA student speaker and
Vanessa Sitler is the undergraduate student
speaker. No tickets are necessary for the
Smith School commencement ceremony.
Graduates participating in the Smith
School’s ceremony will line up in the Small
Gymnasium of the Comcast Center (Room 0601)
and should arrive by 12 p.m.
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Smith School Hosts Wikler Finance
Case Competition
The fourth annual Joseph M. Wikler
Finance Case Competition was held on Friday,
May 4, at the Smith School. Six teams of
four to five undergraduate students taking
BMGT 440 participated in the competition.
This year's winners are Shane Blackmon, Sean
DiBlasi, Matthew Karp, and Noah Needleman,
receiving $1,000 each. Teaching awards were
presented to Russ Wermers, Elinda Kiss, and
Michael Padhi, PhD candidate.
A team of industry and academic
professionals judged the students: Joseph M.
Wikler, competition sponsor and a director
of Oppenheimer Hedge Funds, Cathco, Inc.,
MedinTec, Inc., and consultant for T. Rowe
Price Small Cap Value Fund; Susan White,
Distinguished Tyser Teaching Fellow at
Smith; Chuck Hasper, MBA, corporate
controller at Multimax Incorporated; Ron
Holtz, MBA, CPA, Chief Financial Officer of
MaxCyte; and Jay Gouline, president of
Mayfield Associates LLC and Springlake
Corporation.
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Smith School of Business Hosts Global
Leadership Conference in Shanghai
April 5-7, the Smith School hosted the 2007
Global Leadership Conference at the Shanghai
Hilton Hotel in collaboration with
University of San Diego School of Business
Administration. Following the theme "Many
Paths, One Journey," the Global Leadership
Conference (www.glc7.com) brought together
world-class specialists in leadership
development. Topics discussed in the forum
ranged from career development, conflict
management and cross-cultural communication.
More than 200 mainland Chinese executives
from major multinational companies were in
attendance including representatives from
General Electric, Citigroup, Whirlpool, HSBC
and Black & Decker. Other guests included
business managers from the United States,
Singapore and Taiwan; and the Chinese media.
Entrepreneurship Alive in China! Nearly 300
Entries to the Smith School’s 2007 China
Business Plan Competition
The Smith School’s annual China Business
Plan Competition, now in its successful
third year, has gotten off to a great start
with nearly 300 entries from teams of
aspiring entrepreneurs hoping to win a total
of more than $50,000 in cash and prizes.
These entries will be narrowed to 20
semi-finalists to be announced in June, from
which five will be selected to compete in a
final round competition and award ceremony
in Beijing on Sept. 10, 2007.
“It’s great to see such enthusiasm for
the Smith School and the competition. Across
the board – from corporate sponsor interest,
to support from the venture capital and
investment community, to the entries coming
from individual entrepreneurs – the response
has been overwhelmingly positive,” said
Asher Epstein, Smith School managing
director of the Dingman Center for
Entrepreneurship, which annually presents
the competition. “I’m looking forward to a
vibrant final event in September.”
The Smith School hosts the competition in
support of the growth of world-class
business ideas in China. In addition to the
chance to win cash and prizes, the Smith
School – with competition partner China
Growth Capital, a leading entrepreneurial
consulting and financial advisory firm – is
also offering China entrepreneurs in Beijing
a series of practical workshops. Each
workshop will be presented by experts, and
focuses on a critical component necessary in
building a viable, world-class business
venture. For more information, please go to
the Smith China Web site at:
www.rhsmith-umd.cn.
Smooth Sailing
for All Hands on Deck Project
Smith MBAs Raise $5K for Baltimore's
Downtown Sailing Center
On April 29, 2007, more than 165 members
of the Smith Community gathered for an
Open Sail BBQ and Charity Auction to
support Baltimore's Downtown Sailing
Center. The event, which was a huge
success, was organized by part-time MBA
students Amada Buchanan, Michelle
Cojocaru and America Vallecillo as part
of an MBA course: Strategic Project
Management: A Service Learning Course (BUMO
758P) at the Smith School of Business. The
project also received support from the
Part-time MBA Association.
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Business Ethics
Lecture Series Concludes with Gary Dando
The Business Ethics Lecture Series,
sponsored by the Smith School, hosted
its final speaker, B. Gary Dando ’64,
retired partner, Ernst & Young on April
18. Dando spoke on Business Ethics and
“The Cheating Culture.”
Dando is a retired partner with Ernst &
Young. He started working for Ernst &
Young in 1964 after he graduated from
the Smith School. He was elevated to
partner at the firm in 1976. In addition
to client engagement responsibilities,
Dando held positions of national and
regional operational responsibility
within Ernst & Young in areas of
practice management and operations. He
retired in June 2001 after 37 years with
firm.
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MBAs Participate in
Business Ethics Experiential Learning
Module
Part-time and full-time MBAs recently
attended the three-day Business Ethics
Experiential Learning Module (ELM). The
Business Ethics ELM included some
outstanding speakers and some very
interesting role-play exercises.
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2nd Annual REA Home
Buying Seminar & Wine Tasting
The Smith Real Estate Association
sponsored a Home Buying Seminar and Wine
Tasting on Wednesday, May 9, at 6:15
p.m. in Van Munching Hall. Present were
a real estate agent, loan officer and
settlement attorney, who walked
attendees through the process of buying
a house.
The Wine & Cheese Tasting was led by
first-year MBA Matt Herman, a former
wine seller in the D.C. area.
Smith School
to Co-sponsor Fourth Annual Forum on
Financial Information Systems &
Cybersecurity on May 23
The Smith School, along with the Center for
Public Policy and Private Enterprise (from
Maryland's School of Public Policy) and the
Journal of Accounting and Public Policy
will co-sponsor the fourth annual "Forum on
Financial Information Systems and Cybersecurity: A Public Policy Perspective."
The forum will be held on May 23 in Van
Munching Hall. Coordinators for the forum
are Lawrence A. Gordon, Ernst & Young Alumni
Professor of Managerial Accounting, and
Martin P. Loeb, Deloitte and Touche LLP
Faculty Fellow, both of the Smith School’s
accounting and information assurance
department, and William Lucyshyn, director
of research and senior research scholar at
the Center for Public Policy and Private
Enterprise. For more information on the
forum, and information concerning the
possibility of attending this year's forum,
contact Dr. Lawrence A. Gordon (lgordon@rhsmith.umd.edu).
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Smith School Hosts 7th Annual Netcentricity
Conference
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The keynote
speaker was Samuel Gaer, chief
information officer of New York
Mercantile Exchange, Inc. (NYMEX) |
Netcentricity Conference keynote speaker Samuel Gaer, chief
information officer of New York Mercantile
Exchange, Inc. (NYMEX), gave a sweeping
historical overview of the rocky course of
technology adoption in the finance industry
on April 27. He traced the development of modern trading
technology from the time of the 1987 stock
market crash, a watershed event that
indirectly resulted in the rise of the
modern day-trader. Gaer discussed the
disruptive effects of technology and the way
it changed the trading landscape.
The biggest change in the last few years
has been the migration from primarily
floor-based trading to electronic trading.
On a global basis, more than 50 percent of
trading is done electronically, and Gaer
reports that on some days NYMEX conducts
almost 80 percent of its trades
electronically.
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Smith Community Invited to Learn the Business
Behind Disney Magic, June 6
The Disney Institute brings its renowned
Keys to Excellence program to the Smith
School of Business June 6, 2007. This
one-day conference is a must for members of
any organization focused on customer and
employee loyalty and retention. As the host
of this event, the Smith School is able to
offer the Disney program to the Smith School
community for $349 per person. Be sure to
use discount code
UMCPDISNEY07 when you register at
http://www.disneydc.com. |
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University Update
►UM
a "Best Value College" says Princeton
Review
The University of Maryland is one of
the nation's best values as an undergraduate
institution. The Princeton Review - a
New York-based education services company -
features Maryland in the 2008 edition of its
new book, America's Best Value Colleges.
The guide profiles 165 colleges chosen for
their excellent academics, generous
financial aid packages and/or relatively low
costs of attendance. The Princeton Review's
editors say that Maryland is one of the best
overall undergraduate bargains - based on
cost and financial aid - and is among the
most academically outstanding universities
in the nation.
►Register
for UM Alert Emergency Text Messaging System
The University of Maryland is urging all
students, faculty and staff to quickly
register for UM Alert—the university's new
emergency text messaging system. UM Alert is
now available to all members of the
university community. UM Alert is a
software-based Web application that allows
the University of Maryland to send emergency
text messages to cell phones, pagers, BlackBerries, PDAs, and/or email accounts.
►Full Story or Register Now at
www.alert.umd.edu ►U.S.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer to Speak
at UM Commencement
U.S. House Majority Leader, Steny Hoyer, D-Md.,
will speak to University of Maryland
graduates at the spring commencement on May
20. Hoyer, a Maryland alum, is the
highest-ranking member of Congress to ever
serve the state. When Hoyer was elected by
his colleagues to the No. 2 leadership
spot in the House late last year, it
captured the imagination of the graduating
class, according to senior psychology major
Jesse Fox, who chaired the senior council's
commencement speaker selection committee.
Tickets are required for the main university
commencement. Smith Commencement will be held on Monday,
May 21.
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Student Spotlight:
Seth Kelly, MBAA Vice President of Career
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He grew up
in a coastal town called Marblehead in
Massachusetts. Seth Kelly then spent
many years learning to pronounce his r’s
and removing the phrase “wicked cool”
from his vocabulary. On campus, he is
also known as “the residential
firefighter.”
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Spotlight:
Michael
Marcellino, Senior Director
of Professional
Programs and Services |
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Michael
Marcellino has been working with MBA
students at the Robert H. Smith School of
Business for 12 years. He started working at
the school while he was pursuing his
master's degree in business, which he felt
would round out the previous education he
had received in engineering. In his current
role as senior director of professional
programs and services he oversees a number
of aspects at Smith that affect the
full-time and part-time MBA programs. Some
of these responsibilities include curricular
implementation and design, joint-degree
program development, course scheduling, and
registration of courses. In this position Marcellino has the opportunity to interact
with and get feedback from students through
working with student leaders and analyzing
survey data and casual conversations.
Through the feedback he is provided,
Marcellino is able to make the changes that
students want to see at the Smith School.
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Smith School in the News |
►BizEd
– May-June 2007 – The Global Supply
Chain Competition is highlighted as part
of a story on serious gaming used as
learning tools by business schools.
Supply Chain Management Center
Co-director Sandy Boyson is
quoted in the article.
►Baltimore
Examiner – May 5, 2007 – Dingman
Center for Entrepreneurship Managing
Director Asher Epstein is quoted
in a story profiling the center’s
Cupid’s Cup competition.
►Read more
►Associated
Press – May 4, 2007 –Rhonda Reger,
associate professor and co-chair of the
management and organization department,
is quoted in a story about the ethics
scandal involving Duke MBA students.
►Read more
►Financial
Times – May 4, 2007 – Business
professor Peter Morici is quoted
in a story about U.S. job creation.
►Read more
►USA
Today – May 3, 2007 – Business
professor Peter Morici is quoted
in a story about U.S. job creation.
►Read more
►Entrepreneur
magazine – May 2007 – Associate
professor of Entrepreneurship David
Kirsch is quoted in a story about
the trends that have shaped
entrepreneurship in the past three
decades. Kirsch talks about the
Internet’s role.
►Read more
►Marketplace
from American Public Media – April
30, 2007 – Business professor Peter
Morici is interviewed about consumer
spending and Federal Reserve Chairman
Ben Bernanke’s response to inflation.
►Read more and
listen online
►The
(Baltimore) Sun – April 29, 2007 –
Associate professor of marketing
Gabriel Biehal is quoted in a story
about video and audio production moving
from large studios to smaller
operations.
►Read more
►Wall
Street Journal – April 28, 2007 –
Professor Anil Gupta and Smith MBA
alumnus Haiyan Wang contributed a
full-page article on how firms can
develop successful business strategies
for China and India. A video interview
with Gupta and 10-minute audio podcast
accompany the report.
►Read, watch
and listen online
►Wall
Street Journal – April 25,
2007 – Business professor Peter
Morici is quoted about that latest
economic report in a wrap-up of the
day’s business news and numbers.►Read
more
►NPR:
Day to Day – April 25, 2007 –
Business professor Peter Morici is
interviewed about housing prices for the
marketplace report.
►Read more and
listen online
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Faculty Up Front
►Congratulations
on Faculty Promotions
We extend our warmest congratulations to
10 newly tenured faculty members. The following
professors have been promoted to the rank of
Associate Professor with Tenure: Wilbur
Chung (LBPP), Chrysanthos Dellarochas
(D&IT), Rebecca Hamilton (MKTG), Steve
Heston (FIN), Soeren Hvidkjaer (FIN),
Wolfgang Jank (D&IT), David Kirsch (M&O),
Mark Loewenstein (FIN), Wendy Moe (MKTG),
and Galit Shmueli (D&IT).Congratulations
to Arjang Assad for completing a very
successful term as senior associate dean.
"In recognition of Arjang's outstanding
service, I am creating a new professorship,
the 'Dean's Professor for Extraordinary
Service,' and am appointing Arjang to be its
first recipient," said Dean Howard Frank.
Congratulations to Anand Anandalingam,
D&IT department chair and Ralph J. Tyser
Professor of Management Science, who will be
taking over as senior associate dean,
effective July 1. This is a three-year
appointment.
►Wall Street Journal
Features Insight from
Smith’s Anil Gupta on China and India;
Multimedia Package Welcomes Reader Comments
The Smith School’s Anil Gupta, Ralph J.
Tyser Professor of Global Strategy and
Entrepreneurship, is featured prominently in
a multichannel media report on how firms can
develop successful business strategies for
China and India. Dozens of readers have
responded with comments on a full-page newspaper
article, coauthored by Gupta and Smith
School MBA alumnus Haiyan Wang, that was
published April 28 in the Wall Street
Journal as part of its “Business
Insight” report, which also includes video
and audio interviews as well as an online
discussion.
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Smith Business Close-Up on MPT |
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Thursday,
May 10, 7:30 p.m.
Friday, May 11, 6:00 a.m. |
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Business Schools Get Back to Basics
Today’s MBAs are considering business
schools not only based on the school’s
reputation, rankings and curriculum –
but, increasingly, based on the unique
experiential learning opportunities
business schools offer. Businesses, too,
demand that today’s MBAs immediately
apply the skills they learn in b-school
to the day-to-day responsibilities of
the company.
In this edition of Smith Business
Close-Up, Tray Spilker a second-year MBA
student talks about the Smith School’s
$1.2 million Mayer Fund, his role as the
fund’s portfolio manager and how today’s
top business students are preparing for
the real world.
Smith Business
Close-Up
can be seen bi-weekly on Maryland Public
Television's Business Connection.
Watch Tray Spilker on Thursday,
May 10
at 7:30 p.m. and Friday, May 11, 6:00
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
Previous episodes of Smith Business Close-Up on Maryland Public
Television's Business Connection can
be seen online.
Have an idea for Smith Business Close-Up?
Contact Kathy Marmon at
kmarmon@rhsmith.umd.edu (or at ext.
59568) to discuss appearing in an upcoming
edition of Smith Business Close-Up
and to make suggestions for a future segment.
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Technology@Smith |
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Smith IT Helpdesk and Computer Lab Summer
Hours
The following Helpdesk and Lab hours will be
in effect May 19 -August 24:
Helpdesk
Monday - Friday: 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Computer Labs
Monday - Thursday: 8 a.m. - 10 p.m.
Friday: 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Saturday & Sunday: 12 p.m. - 6 p.m.
http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/helpdesk
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Bulletin Board
 Maryland Day, April 28, 2007:
First-years, send your summer photos to
smithnewslink@rhsmith.umd.edu.
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