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March 29, 2017
Winners and Losers in Google's Widening Ad Crisis

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — With Google gripped by a spiraling ad boycott as companies protest having their content posted alongside extremist YouTube videos, the search giant's competitors might be spotting an opportunity. Already a fresh focus has turned to the "upfronts," the annual New York City ritual in which TV

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March 29, 2017
Fearless Idea 29: Rethink Online Shopping Carts

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — Have you ever filled your virtual cart while shopping online only to leave it without completing the purchase?

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March 29, 2017
Is a Lack of Sleep Crushing the Economy?

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — Can U.S.

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March 28, 2017
Fearless Idea 28: Close the Gender Wage Gap

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — Something inequitable happens when men and women with similar jobs get laid off at the same time from the same companies, and then move to the same new employer. The gender wage gap — whatever it was before — widens during the transition. Only one factor helps to soften the outcome.

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March 28, 2017
Melissa Fellman '18 Discusses Strategic Design and Innovation Fellows Program

Victor Mullins, associate dean of the undergraduate program at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business, recently interviewed Melissa Fellman ’18 to discuss her involvement with Strategic Design and Innovation Fellows and how it is part of her Smith journey.

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March 28, 2017
Successful Entrepreneur and Author Jeff Hoffman Comes to Smith through Dingman Center Speaker Series

The Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship is pleased to announce that noted entrepreneur and speaker Jeff Hoffman will be speaking at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business on April 20, 2017, as part of its Dingman Center Speaker Series.

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March 28, 2017
Smith Hosts Case Competition for Local High Schools

Smith student Philip Peker ’18 writes about the Prince George’s County High School Mock Case Competition, held on March 17, 2017, at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business.

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March 27, 2017
Fearless Idea 27: Limit Market-Making Risks

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — Market makers have significant influence in financial markets, and they take on significant risk. In new research, Yajun Wang, assistant professor of finance at the University of Maryland’s Robert H.

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March 26, 2017
Fearless Idea 26: Know the Power of Posh Labels

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — High-priced luxury handbags are sometimes referred to as “statement pieces,” and for at least some women, the statement they’re making is: “Don’t even try to take my man.” For such women, luxury accessories, such as high-priced designer shoes and handbags, function as “a signaling syste

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March 25, 2017
Fearless Idea 25: Find What Drives Consumers

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — Let’s say your company has had a very profitable year, and has decided to reward you, one of its top contributors, with a handsome, 8 percent pay increase. Well done. Now, let’s say it’s just before the holidays.

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