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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.
Five teams of undergraduate finance students at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business participated in the 12th Annual Joseph M. Wikler Finance Case Competition on Friday, April 24, 2015. Students presented their solutions on a Reliance Communications case, a company overloaded with debt that needed to find financing to continue operations.
Each year in May you can count on the sun shining, flowers blooming, finals and the annual CHIDS End of Semester Get-Together! CHIDS held its end of semester get-together on May 6th, to welcome new students and to say goodbye to outgoing students.
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SMITH BRAIN TRUST -- A second month of slow job growth appears to further delay a looming interest-rate hike prescribed by Fed Chairwoman Janet Yellen six weeks ago. Professor Peter Morici at the University of Maryland’s Robert H.
U.S. multinational corporations (MNCs) hoard approximately $2 trillion in cash, the majority of which is kept overseas, and are required to pay U.S. corporate income taxes upon repatriation of foreign earnings earned in lower tax jurisdictions. New research provides evidence that MNCs facing higher repatriation tax costs are more likely to engage in acquisitions of both U.S.
Food trucks will visit the Robert H. Smith School of Business on May 7 and May 14 to serve a variety of lunch options to hungry students, faculty and staff. The participating food trucks vary by week and will include:
SMITH BRAIN TRUST -- Tesla, the electric-car company and Silicon Valley darling, has announced it would be selling new battery systems for homes and businesses.
SMITH BRAIN TRUST -- Though successfully scraping together a 200 million euro repayment to the IMF, Greece will struggle to cover the 770 million euros due to the IMF by May 12, the Associated Press reports today.
By Nicole M. Coomber