Business Administration major Johana Marroquin Arjona and Biochemistry major Sarah Padilla are awarded the Geraldine and Sam Dell Scholarship for Character and Excellence on March 23, 2022. The event featured speaker Tim O’Donald, President of Harbor East Management Group, LLC.
On October 20, Enactus held a trunk show with professional clothing from the Success Studio outside of the Brown School of Business and Leadership. The trunk show event was an opportunity to showcase the Success Studio as an important on-campus resource.
Located in SBL 400, the Studio offers free professional clothing for all students in a variety of sizes for occasions such as interviews, internships or professional presentations. The Success Studio is open Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday and is the longest running project of Enactus, Stevenson’s social entrepreneurship student club.
On Thursday October 7, Sportscaster Gerry Sandusky visited Professor Kim Burns’ Business Writing (MGT 210) class. Sandusky is the sports director for WBAL-TV in Baltimore and also is the radio announcer for Baltimore Ravens games.
by Kailee Harrison
Pip Robins was a guest speaker on March 31st in Professor Jay Marmers’ MGT347 International Human Resources Management class. Mr. Robins joined the Stevenson BlueJeans meeting to speak about his experiences as a business professional working internationally. Mr. Robins has been all over the world for both business and personal reasons, with locations including Canada, Singapore, Egypt, Nepal, Thailand, Bali and many more! Mr. Robins is married with three children who have experienced the transitions from Switzerland to Singapore to now Maryland.
Mr. Robins’ described the coverage and policies the workplace should offer employees. He mentions his personal coverage while working with various companies internationally and says any policy should have housing, transportation, healthcare, schooling, compensation, home trips, cultural training, working spouses, and security.
Mr. Robins also shared with the an assignment experience he endured while working internationally. He described the prep stage, performing a full study of international market opportunities and creating a strategic plan. Mr. Robins explained that there was an Asian currency collapse in 1997 that pushed the project to January of the following year. In phase 1 of the project, Mr. Robins explains that he evaluated aluminum extrusion businesses in Asia for potential acquisition or joint ventures. He then explains that phase 2 dealt with him switching to sales of aluminum products for an offshore oil industry.
Overall, the lessons learned from Mr. Robins’ international experience include the emphasis on respecting and trying to understand different cultures. He also notes that the need to trust local agents is very important when dealing with international business. Mr. Robins concluded his presentation by mentioning how important it was that he had a spouse who embraced change and was involved with work internationally.
