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SMITH BRAIN TRUST -- Soon, you won't have to be a multimillionaire VC “angel” to help get a hot new company off the ground: The SEC is allowing ordinary investors to put money into start

COLLEGE PARK, Md. (March 26, 2015) — Working professionals with an interest in the Washington, D.C., region have a new source for bite-sized business insights, delivered weekly to their inboxes from the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business.

Organizations of all sizes need more of the entrepreneurial spirit that pervades the University of Maryland, PepsiCo Chairman and CEO Indra Nooyi said March 25, 2015, during CEO@Smith at the Robert H. Smith School of Business.

In early February, President Obama proposed a 14 percent tax on U.S. multinationals’ overseas earnings, plus a 19 percent minimum tax rate on future foreign profits. The proceeds would fix roads, bridges and other infrastructure.

By Andy Burness, MBA ’81

SMITH BRAIN TRUST -- Companies work fairly hard to place one woman -- but only one -- in a top management position, according to research by

Russ Wermers, professor of finance at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, will provide expertise, as an affiliate, to one of the largest economic consulting firms in North America.

SMITH BRAIN TRUST -- A talent shortage threatens the global automotive industry.

SMITH BRAIN TRUST -- PepsiCo Chairman and CEO Indra Nooyi delivered the CEO@Smit

SMITH BRAIN TRUST -- Economics professor Peter Morici at the U