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May 11, 2015
Mining Yelp

Using a database of 130,000 Yelp reviews, Smith PhD student Jorge Mejia and two Smith professors have found a way to predict which Washington, D.C., restaurants will close.

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May 11, 2015
Play-by-Play of Cupid’s Cup Game Day
Let’s start at the very beginning

On April 22, 2015, a crowd of nearly 1,000 descended on the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center for the 10th annual Cupid’s Cup, chaired by Under Armour Founder and CEO Kevin Plank ’96 and hosted by Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship at the Robert H. Smith School of Business.

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May 11, 2015
Smith Commencement is May 21

Please join us to celebrate the accomplishments of more than 1,200 graduates from the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business on Thursday, May 21, 2015, at the Xfinity Center in College Park, Md. The campus-wide ceremony will take place at 10 a.m.

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May 11, 2015
When Stretch Assignments Backfire

Congratulations, you just got a stretch assignment! This means your boss trusts you and sees leadership potential. But beware. New research from the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business shows potential pitfalls. The same assignment that can inspire engagement and critical thinking also can trigger self-doubt and anxiety.

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May 11, 2015
Research Briefs

Mind the Gap to Motivate Employees

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May 11, 2015
Research@Smith Bookshelf
Recent titles from Robert H. Smith School of Business faculty include:

Dancing Elephants and Leaping Jaguars

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May 11, 2015
Dean’s Column

Billionaire entrepreneur Michael Dell gave good advice when he returned to the University of Texas at Austin as commencement speaker in 2003. “Try never to be the smartest person in the room,” he told the graduates of his alma mater. 

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May 11, 2015
Jolting Your Team Out of an Innovation Rut

Teams searching for innovation increase their odds of driving the evolution of a field when they reach out to colleagues — or to research findings — outside their field's area of expertise, a new st

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May 11, 2015
Thought Leadership

Rajshree Agarwal, the Rudolph P. Lamone Chair and Professor in Entrepreneurship, has been named academic director of the new Ed Snider Center for Enterprise and Markets.

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May 8, 2015
15th Annual Dean’s Undergraduate Awards Dinner

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