President Bush Recognizes Robert H. Smith for Philanthropy Supporting Humanities On Monday, President George W. Bush awarded Robert H. Smith, a key benefactor and namesake of the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, with the prestigious National Humanities Medal for 2008 for his philanthropic contributions to the humanities.
Morici To Give Expert Testimony Today on State of U.S. Auto Industry Peter Morici, professor of international business at the Smith School, is an expert witness on the U.S. auto industry in a Senate Banking Committee hearing on Nov. 18. (Watch live at 3 p.m.)
BusinessWeek Ranks Smith Among Top MBA Programs in the Nation The MBA program at the Smith School emerges as the best in the Washington, D.C.-Baltimore region and an impressive No. 3 in the U.S. for research in BusinessWeek’s 2008 survey of “The Best B-schools.”
Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship & MTECH to Co-Host Global Entrepreneurship Week at UM Students across the University of Maryland campus will soon have a chance to join millions of other young people across the world in a quest to embrace innovation and creativity, and turn their ideas into reality. This quest begins Nov. 17-23 with a university-wide celebration of Global Entrepreneurship Week.
Managing Employee Silence Research by Subrahmaniam Tangirala
Employees remain silent about conflicts with co-workers, disagreements about organizational decisions, potential weaknesses in work processes, illegal or dangerous behaviors, and individual grievances. Their silence keeps management from receiving critical information that would allow their organizations to improve or address problems before they have adverse effects. Read more
