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News
Briefs |
$20
Million Expansion to Van Munching Hall
Underway
 Early
August brought construction crews back to
Smith as work began on Van Munching Hall's
North Wing, a
$20 million addition of approximately 38,000 square
feet to the
Smith School’s home. An official
groundbreaking ceremony will be held this
fall and completion is slated for November 2007. The North Wing will include an office and
classroom addition in the north end of Van
Munching Hall and will also feature an
entrance plaza and attractive green space.
The addition will increase the Smith
School’s space to approximately 238,000
square feet.
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U.S. News Ranks Smith School’s
Undergraduate Program
Among Nation’s Best
The undergraduate program at the Smith
School of Business is ranked among the
best in the nation – with the school
ranked as No. 18 in the United States
according to the latest U.S. News &
World Report college ranking report
released on August 18, 2006. The Smith
School also scored highly in a number of
business specialty categories – with its
management information systems, supply
chain management and entrepreneurship
programs listed among the nation’s top
10 and with a total of five areas listed
among the nation’s top 15.
The Smith School's specialty
rankings include:
No. 6 – Management Information
Systems
No. 6 – Supply Chain
Management/Logistics
No. 10 – Entrepreneurship
No. 13 – Quantitative Analysis
No. 14 – Management
No. 16 – Production/Operations
Management
No. 17 – Finance
No. 18 – Marketing
No. 22 – International Business
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Welcome Back Video Message from
Dean Howard Frank
 Video greetings from Dean Howard
Frank as we begin another exciting year
at Smith!
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Smith School Launches Four New Executive
Programs
With academic programs on four
continents (North America, Asia, Africa,
Europe), campuses at four locations in
the U.S. (College Park, Rockville/Shady
Grove and Baltimore, Md., and
Washington, D.C), it's only fitting that
Smith should be launching four
new academic programs. The Evening
Executive MBA, the Executive MS in
Accounting, the MS in Business with a
focus in Information Systems and
Technology, and a customized MBA program
with SAIC are all new executive degree programs
from the Smith School.
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GE
Signature Event
On Wednesday, September 13, GE
will host a Signature Eventthat MBAs are
encouraged to attend. From 1:00–5:00
p.m. at the GE Business Expo in VMH,
learn more about GE innovations and
businesses. Attend a keynote speech
featuring UM alumnus John Loomis, GE
Industrial VP HR, at 5:30 p.m. in Frank
Auditorium. Learn about GE leadership
programs (Engineering, IT, Finance,
Communications and Marketing) at an
information session at 6 p.m. -- and
stick around for a 7 p.m. networking
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China Business Plan Competition Finals
Next Week
Next Wednesday, September 13, the Smith
School will host the semifinals in the
school’s second annual China Business
Plan Competition. A total of $50,000 in
prize money will be awarded to three
final winners at the event which will be
held in Beijing. The five teams
competing in the finals are: Aishi,
ChinaLecture, Coolbar, JBI, and Same
Talk. Dean Howard Frank will be among
the Smith School representatives
participating in the event. The dean
will be joined by Liang Gui, director
general of the Torch High-Tech Center at
the China Ministry of Science and
Technology, in naming the winners after
the final round. There will also be a
keynote address delivered by Daofeng He,
chairman of the board at Sinoway
Investment Corporation.
The Smith School, which delivers
Executive MBA programs in Beijing,
Shanghai and Tianjin, started the China
Business Plan Competition in 2005 to
help foster entrepreneurship there. The
school’s Dingman Center for
Entrepreneurship solicits business ideas
from teams of entrepreneurs from across
China, and then narrows the competitors
down to a final five teams which present
their plans before a panel of venture
capitalists in the final round. The
school received nearly 150 entries in
this year’s competition.
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Smith School in the News
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►Shanghai
Daily – August 28, 2006 – Logistics
professor Sandy Boyson, director
of the Supply Chain Management Center,
writes an opinion article about supply
chains adapting to manage the
globalization process. The piece is
adapted from a speech Boyson gave in
China.
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►Washington
Post – August 25, 2006 – Part of a
“Finishing School” multimedia package
for business executives, the
Washington Post highlights interview
tips and cautions with an online video,
produced by Smith’s Office of Career
Management and starring Lindsay Terry
and Moneca Surida.
►Watch online
►Wall
Street Journal – August 24, 2006 –
Telecommuting, though it sounds
attractive for many, does not always
turn out to be the best option for
workers. National Technology Readiness
Survey data illustrates that even when
given the option, many workers choose
not to telecommute. Appeared in various
outlets, including the Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette and the Arizona
Republic.
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►Washington
Post – August 24, 2006 – Existing
homes sales fell more than expected last
month and unsold homes reached record
levels. Business professor Peter
Morici said reported numbers were
lower than expected and he and others
had made predictions based on contracts
signed. But some people managed to back
out of contracts. “People are very
hesitant right now,” Morici said.
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►BusinessWeek
Online – August 24, 2006 – With
homes sales dropping and the economy
slowing, the Federal Reserve may be
reluctant to raise interest rates again.
“The temptation to raise interest rates
could result in a terrible bout with
stagflation or a recession,” said
business professor Peter Morici.
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►Associated
Press – August 24, 2006 – New homes
sales dropped 4.3 percent in July. This
is prompting builders to offer extra
incentives to entice buyers, said
business professor Peter Morici.
“Overall, values are falling and
builders’ profits are threatened,” he
said.
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►CFO
Magazine– August 24, 2006 –
Companies implicated in price-fixing
schemes may have to pay fines twice or
more, in Europe, the U.S. and other
countries. “It’s a new world,” said
Associate Professor Joshua Newberg.
“More countries are getting into the act
of competition enforcement.”
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►USA
Today – August 23, 2006 – The
economy is slowing, but some question
how much. One big variable is housing,
according to Peter Morici,
business professor. After adding to
growth in the past several years, the
sector has become a drag, with the drop
in home construction shaving as much as
one percentage point off gross domestic
product. The impact could be far greater
if the market falls faster, he said.
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►BusinessWeek
Online – August 23, 2006 – What you
wear to a job interview can have a big
impact – these tips offer some fashion
dos and don’ts, including a quote from
David Wilmes, manager of
undergraduate student programming.
“Students think they can wear scuffed-up
shoes. Or in an informal setting, men
think they can get away with no belt,”
Wilmes said.
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►Newhouse
News Service – August 22, 2006 –
Internet pages, such as MySpace.com, can
be memorials to those who post to them
when that person dies. Professor
David Kirsch said people should plan
for the digital afterlife. “We need to
increase awareness of the way we leave
digital traces and then try to take an
active role in managing those pieces
such that our wished are reflected in
our digital imprint left after we die,”
Kirsch said.
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►The
Economic Times (India) – August 18,
2006 – With an increasing number of
family-owned businesses in India
choosing to train their next generation
through Family Managed Business (FMB)
programs, these courses are fast gaining
popularity. MDI will be offering a
two-year Program For Family-Owned
Business Houses, starting next year,
which will have students spending about
nine months abroad. "The Robert H. Smith
School of Business at the University of
Maryland will be one of our partners and
we are in talks with the Babson College,
America besides other European
institutes," said Pritam Singh, director
MDI.
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Smith Business Close-Up on MPT
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Thursday, September
7,
7:30 p.m.
Friday, September 8, 6:00
a.m.
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How globalization and
localization effect U.S.
businesses
As a global superpower,
the U.S. has the world’s
best universities and a
strong financial system, but
with less than 5 percent of
the world’s population, the
U.S. economy accounts for
almost a third of the global
economy (or GDP). What does
this mean in terms of
globalization and
international
competitiveness?
In next edition of
Smith Business Close-Up,
Vinod Jain --
director of the Center for
International Business
Education and Research and
senior director for the
office of professional
programs and services at the
Smith School and a
recognized expert in
corporate strategy and
international business --
will discuss globalization
and localization – and their
role in American companies’
success. To learn more about
globalization and
localization, plan to attend
the Digital Economy Forum
2006. For more information
visit:
www.rhsmith.umd.edu/DigitalEconomyForum
Smith Business
Close-Up can be seen
bi-weekly on Maryland Public
Television's Business
Connection. Watch Vinod Jain
Thursday, September 7 at
7:30 p.m. or Friday,
September 8 at 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
►Watch previous episodes online.
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Faculty Up Front
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The Smith School is honored to
welcome 11 new faculty members this
fall:
Accounting and
Information Assurance:
James McKinney, PhD ’02, Smith School
Finance:
Georgios Skoulakis, PhD Northwestern University
Albert (Pete) Kyle, PhD University of Chicago
Dalida Kadyrzhanova, PhD Columbia University
Management and Organization:
Oliver Schlake, PhD, University of Paderborn, Germany
Subrahmaniam Tangirala, PhD Purdue University
Gilad Chen, PhD George Mason University
Marketing:
Michel Wedel, PhD University of Wageningen
Jie Zhang, PhD Northwestern University
Rebecca Ratner, PhD Princeton University
Sanal Mazvancheryl, PhD University of Michigan
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Anil Gupta and Howard Frank to Speak at
China Entrepreneurs' MBA Series
China Entrepreneurs, a non-profit
organization that promotes China
entrepreneurship, will launch the first of a
nine-part China Entrepreneurs' MBA Series
with a presentation from Anil Gupta, Ralph
J. Tyser Professor of Global Strategy &
Entrepreneurship, and opening remarks from
Dean Howard
Frank. Gupta will present “How Successful
Entrepreneurs deal with Risk and
Uncertainty," on Sept. 12 at the Capital Club in Beijing. The MBA
Series provides an academic perspective of
issues entrepreneurs face as presented by
leading professors from top international
MBA programs.
►Download SAS On-Demand Webcast Seminar
with Galit Shmueli,
assistant professor of management
science and statistics: "Analytics and
Data Mining Skills Give Grads a
Competitive Edge."
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Spotlight:
Meet the MBA Class of 2008
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Meet the
MBA Class of 2008
The MBA class of 2008 is 114 strong,
with an average GMAT of 651, average GPA
of 3.4 and 5 years of work experience.
International students account for 37
percent of the class, 28 percent are
female and 20 percent are minorities.
 For the third year in a row, Smith
full-time MBAs were given Sprint-Nextel
BlackBerry devices. Associate Dean for
Professional Programs & Services Scott
Koerwer asked students why they thought
the BlackBerry® was made part of
the Smith MBA experience.
"So we can look super cool,"
yelled out one excited student. "Because
they are so prevalent in business... to
stay accessible to classmates and
faculty... to be more effective and
spend less time doing work, or spend
more time doing work... so we can
all have the same tools... to be a
leader for the digital economy and
live the tag line." On a lighter note,
"...to create an addiction... to
get us to come here in the first
place... to have something to do on the
metro when someone is bugging us... to
learn the important skill of thumb
typing."
"I was in contact with a number of my
classmates before orientation started
and the topic of conversation that got
them most excited was the BlackBerry,"
said first-year MBA student Lettie Goodridge. "Everyone was
trying to figure out what model we would
get and what service they would come
with. I think people were counting down
to the day that we would get our
BlackBerry. As a first time user of a
BlackBerry I was very excited to receive
one and very overwhelmed once I did. The
possibilities of what a BlackBerry will
help me do seem to be endless. I
immediately figured out how to message
my friends. I think the more useful
functions such as the calendar, I will
learn to use with time."
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Technology@Smith
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MBA Networth
Smith IT hosted a demonstration and review of the features of
our exclusive online Smith MBA community
site: MBA Networth today. Students learned
how to update their profile, share both
personal and professional information, chat
online with fellow students and even create
and online community
forums of interest. For more information
about the community, visit
http://www.mbanetworth.rhsmith.umd.edu.
As always, if you want to find a Smith
School password-protected site, just click
on the "Login"
link on the top of any Smith School Web site
page.
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.
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September 7, 2006
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55%
MD
Drivers Who Admit to Using Cell Phone
While Driving
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2006 UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND DRIVER SURVEY
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Smith School
History
1961 The
College of Business & Public Administration moves
into its new building, Tydings Hall, which served as
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