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The stage was set in Houston, Texas, for a spectacular showdown.

The Quality Enhancement Systems and Teams (QUEST) retreat gave 75 incoming sophomores their first taste of life in the QUEST program. The two-day offsite experience is held at Camp Horizons in Harrisonburg, Virginia, and is a bit like a corporate retreat and a bit like a college class mixed up with a healthy dose of summer camp.

The University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business has partnered with Reuters to deliver the first-ever external certification program for Reuters 3000 Xtra, the company's high-speed, high-performance information service for finance professionals.

Leaders for the Digital Economy was adopted as the Smith Schools tag line in 2003.

It means different things to different people and you have to really take the words apart to have a true understanding of the vision, says Smith School Dean Howard Frank.

Research by Susan Feinberg and Gordon Phillips

Research by Galit Shmueli and Wolfgang Jank

Research by Gerard Hoberg

UNDERPRICING IS COMMON IN INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERINGS—TO A CERTAIN EXTENT, IT MAY BE DIFFICULT TO AVOID. BUT SOME FIRMS CONSISTENTLY SELL NEW STOCK ISSUES AT A MUCH GREATER DISCOUNT THAN OTHERS. IS THIS PHENOMENON DRIVEN BY PURELY COMPETITIVE FORCES, OR BY A SYSTEM THAT DOES NOT ADEQUATELY PROTECT IPO ISSUERS FROM PREDATORY UNDERWRITING PRACTICES?

Research by Gerard Hoberg

The University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business provided Nextel BlackBerry 7510 wireless handheld devices to all of its full-time MBA students at the start of the fall 2004 semester.