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U.S. News Ranks Smith School Undergrad Program Among Nation's Best
Smith's undergraduate program is ranked #17 in the nation and among the top 10 in information systems, supply chain and entrepreneurship specialty categories.

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Smith School's Dean Anand talks with Business Week about social responsibility.

Smith Executive MBA Welcomes Rich Karlgaard
Forbes publisher, columnist and author of the best-selling book, Life 2.0., he is the featured speaker in the Smith EMBA Fall Speaker Series beginning Sept. 3.
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Latest Stock Return Model Beats all Prior Prediction Methods
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Do stocks picked by skilled fund managers outperform those picked by unskilled managers? Russ Wermers, associate professor of finance at Smith shows undeniable evidence that they do. To this end, his award-winning statistical model predicts – more accurately than any prior model – the future performance of individual stocks based on how heavily they are held or purchased by both successful and unsuccessful fund managers. Even when adjusted for risk, Wermers’ model beats former methods by as much as eight percent per year.
Russ Wermers