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April 2, 2015
Beware of Your Mindset When Renting

Commitment-shy shoppers carefully evaluate products before making a purchase, but new research from shows something different happens when the same people think about renting.

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April 2, 2015
Goldman Sachs Awaits Smith Scholar

As the son of a single mother, Khalil Pettus ’15 worried about paying for college. “I knew the financial burden could be pretty heavy for the two of us,” he says.

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April 2, 2015
50/50 by 2020: Smith Pledges to Close Gender Enrollment Gap

Female enrollment lags in MBA programs across the United States, but the Smith School has pledged to close the gap in all of its graduate programs within five years.

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April 2, 2015
Smith Launches Undergraduate Minors

The Smith School is introducing a set of 15-credit minors to equip University of Maryland students with business skills and entrepreneurial savvy.

General business and a second minor, innovation and entrepreneurship, will open in fall 2015 for up to 180 UMD undergraduates in each program, complementing a recently launched business analytics minor.

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April 2, 2015
Professors Open Their Homes for Charity

A formal receiving line awaited dinner guests on June 3, 2014, in a scene inspired by the PBS series Downton Abbey. “You can never be too classy,” explained the host, Charles Olson, Professor of the Practice and Director of the Business Honors Program at the Smith School. 

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April 2, 2015
Alumni Notes
’60s

John “Jack” McClean ’66 was honored by Providence Volunteer Fire Company for 50 years of continuous service.

’70s

Eric Billings ’77 has retired as CEO of Arlington Asset Investment Corp. (formerly known as Friedman, Billings, Ramsey Group). 

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April 2, 2015
Briefcase: No Shenanigans
Fraud Buster Funds New Schilit Scholars Program 

Companies guilty of accounting trickery don’t want Howard Schilit, MBA ’76, PhD ’81, anywhere near their books.

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April 2, 2015
Look up! It’s a Market Disruption
Four Perspectives on Living With Drones 

Tiny unmanned aircrafts will soon swarm your neighborhood delivering everything from hot burritos to medical prescriptions. Fulfillment will take minutes instead of days or hours, and big commercial carriers will face pressure to adapt or die. That’s the promise of some visionaries.

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April 2, 2015
The $100 Billion Questions
Can Your Firm Pass Tata’s Performance Excellence Assessment?

Few companies can match the recent global expansion of the Tata Group, which owns brands such as Jaguar, Land Rover, Taj Hotels and Good Earth Teas.

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April 2, 2015
Lecture Explores Why Business Students Should Pay Attention to Changes in the Family

Why do we commonly think of the family and the capitalist market as mutually exclusive domains? Many see the family as the realm of love and intimacy and the market as the realm of self-interested individuals. But in fact, the two have always been deeply inter-related.

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