College Of Business

NationsBank has given a $500,000 gift to the University of Maryland's College of Business and Management, the university announced this week.The money will go to "enhance faculty research and retention" and "to fund student scholarships in the college," the business school said."

For Edwin F. Hale Sr. -- a community college dropout from Highlandtown who now heads First Mariner Bank -- the honorary doctorate he received yesterday at Towson University was a gesture of respect by a pedigree-conscious world from which he has often felt estranged. But for the business students Hale addressed, the bachelor's and master's degrees conferred were much more than symbolic -- representing years of classwork and, in many cases, tickets to jobs with firms like Hale's. In his first university commencement speech, Hale assured the newly minted Towson grads that their diplomas, and the reputation of their public college, carried serious currency in the world of finance.

The College of Business and Management at the University of Maryland College Park, with the blessing of the U.S. Department of Education, took a step yesterday toward its decade-old goal of being a leading training ground for globally competitive executives.The UM business school announced that it has received a $240,000 grant from the department to act as a national Center for International Business Education and Research. As a recipient of the three-year renewable grant, the school joins an elite fraternity including business schools from 16 universities.

Shake a job recruiter's or client's hand with a firm grip and maintain eye contact. Write e-mail like a business correspondence and not as a text message to friends. Wait until the host begins eating before picking up a fork. These tips sound like lessons out of charm school. But college students across the country are signing up for etiquette instruction with more frequency since a growing number of schools are providing the training to better prepare their graduates for the workplace.

The University of Maryland has announced that the General Electric Foundation has awarded a two-year, $30,000 grant to the university's College of Business and Management to develop and implement an program that simulates international business negotiations.As part of the program, the university said, students will adopt roles as U.S. or Latin American negotiating teams and conduct "international business transactions" using a computer-based communications system involving electronic mail and real-time teleconferencing.

Resume polishers, get ready to rub: If you went to business school at the University of Maryland, your alma mater is now ranked 20th in the nation by U.S. News and World Report.The College of Business and Management jumped this year from 25th place on the influential list of undergraduate programs, past business schools at Arizona State, Emory University, Georgia Tech, the University of Florida and the University of Pittsburgh."Of course, we're very, very happy about it," said business school spokeswoman Anne Moultrie.

AT MY 50th college reunion in Boston, I found that I can still dance all night and even squeeze in a little romance.That's pretty heady stuff for a woman who was also celebrating her 71st birthday."

Lee D. Dahringer, dean of the West Virginia University College of Business and Economics since 1999, is the new dean of the Joseph A. Sellinger, S.J., School of Business and Management at Loyola College, Loyola announced yesterday. Dahringer, 53, will assume leadership of the Sellinger School for the fall semester, but will not be there full time until October. He succeeds Peter Lorenzi - who last fall announced plans to return to the faculty as a professor of management - after a search that lasted about a year.

For Edwin F. Hale Sr. -- a community college dropout from Highlandtown who now heads First Mariner Bank -- the honorary doctorate he received yesterday at Towson University was a gesture of respect by a pedigree-conscious world from which he has often felt estranged. But for the business students Hale addressed, the bachelor's and master's degrees conferred were much more than symbolic -- representing years of classwork and, in many cases, tickets to jobs with firms like Hale's. In his first university commencement speech, Hale assured the newly minted Towson grads that their diplomas, and the reputation of their public college, carried serious currency in the world of finance.

Mark Ross would like a job in Japan, David Blonder is hoping to settle in France or southern Europe, and Mark Maltby wants to move to Spain.Right now, all three are undergraduate students at the University of Maryland College Park and plan to enter the business school this fall.But they will be seeking a business degree with a difference.Part of their training will include negotiating a mock free-trade agreement with students in Mexico or hammering out a drug policy with students in Argentina.

Retail sales will grow at a slower pace than expected this year - the slowest rate of growth in a decade - because of the war with Iraq and the weak economy, the nation's biggest retail trade group said yesterday in a revised forecast. The National Retail Federation said it now expects sales to rise 3.8 percent in 2003 compared with last year, rather than the 5.6 percent it projected in January. Last year, consumers spent $907.6 billion on general merchandise, apparel, furniture, home furnishings, electronics, sporting goods, books and music, a 5.1 percent increase over sales in 2001, the NRF said.

Lee D. Dahringer, dean of the West Virginia University College of Business and Economics since 1999, is the new dean of the Joseph A. Sellinger, S.J., School of Business and Management at Loyola College, Loyola announced yesterday. Dahringer, 53, will assume leadership of the Sellinger School for the fall semester, but will not be there full time until October. He succeeds Peter Lorenzi - who last fall announced plans to return to the faculty as a professor of management - after a search that lasted about a year.

WHEN A COLLEGE-bound student asks, "What course should I take?" the response is frequently, "Take a business course; you can always use business." Seven college students from central county went significantly beyond one course by attending the Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Polytechnic Institute in Blacksburg, Va. The college was ranked in the top 50 business schools in a recent survey by U.S. News and World Report. Among the seven local Pamplin students is Severna Park resident Erin Brunst, 22, who graduated in May with a bachelor's degree in marketing management, with a concentration in global business.

Resume polishers, get ready to rub: If you went to business school at the University of Maryland, your alma mater is now ranked 20th in the nation by U.S. News and World Report.The College of Business and Management jumped this year from 25th place on the influential list of undergraduate programs, past business schools at Arizona State, Emory University, Georgia Tech, the University of Florida and the University of Pittsburgh."Of course, we're very, very happy about it," said business school spokeswoman Anne Moultrie.

A year and a half ago, Baltimore financier Larry D. Unger suddenly found his 26-year career eliminated by consolidation, that late 20th-century business rage. Now, he has invented what he hopes will become another industry wave: an electronic business card.A professional made obsolete by the turn of global events, the 48-year-old entrepreneur does not expect to phase out the paper business card, one of the last holdouts from the office-culture pTC revolution. Yet other standbys have all but vanished with the relentless march of technology -- carbon copies, typewriters, a live voice on the other end of the telephone line.

After decades of concentration on establishing its academic respectability, a job that is now well advanced, Loyola College's Sellinger School of Business and Management is about to practice what some of its professors preach.Led by a new dean who peppers his conversation with business-school phrases such as "strategic marketing" and "information revolution" -- but means them as guidance the institution must apply to itself -- the school is about to undergo a reassessment of its relations with everyone from its own alumni and students to the Maryland business community.

Retail sales will grow at a slower pace than expected this year - the slowest rate of growth in a decade - because of the war with Iraq and the weak economy, the nation's biggest retail trade group said yesterday in a revised forecast. The National Retail Federation said it now expects sales to rise 3.8 percent in 2003 compared with last year, rather than the 5.6 percent it projected in January. Last year, consumers spent $907.6 billion on general merchandise, apparel, furniture, home furnishings, electronics, sporting goods, books and music, a 5.1 percent increase over sales in 2001, the NRF said.

A year and a half ago, Baltimore financier Larry D. Unger suddenly found his 26-year career eliminated by consolidation, that late 20th-century business rage. Now, he has invented what he hopes will become another industry wave: an electronic business card.A professional made obsolete by the turn of global events, the 48-year-old entrepreneur does not expect to phase out the paper business card, one of the last holdouts from the office-culture pTC revolution. Yet other standbys have all but vanished with the relentless march of technology -- carbon copies, typewriters, a live voice on the other end of the telephone line.

NationsBank has given a $500,000 gift to the University of Maryland's College of Business and Management, the university announced this week.The money will go to "enhance faculty research and retention" and "to fund student scholarships in the college," the business school said."

It has been nearly 25 years since William E. Mayer left the University of Maryland with an MBA.Now, after an investment banking career that ended with a stint as chief executive of one of Wall Street's biggest firms, Mr. Mayer is back, this time as dean of the College of Business and Management at College Park, the university announced yesterday."