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February 1, 2015
Smith School Students Ring Bell to Open NYMEX

College Park, Md. - February 1, 2008 - A group of Robert H. Smith School of Business undergraduate and MBA students had the honor of ringing the bell to open trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange this morning.

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January 30, 2015
Super Bowl Creates Prisoner’s Dilemma for Advertisers

SMITH BRAIN TRUST -- Super Bowl advertisers drop $4.5 million per 30-second spot, so why are they showing more and more sneak peeks before kickoff? David Godes, associate professor of marketing at the University of Maryland’s Robert H.

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January 30, 2015
Booster Funds Awarded to Do Good Challenge Competitors

COLLEGE PARK, Md. (Jan. 30, 2015) Organizers of the University of Maryland’s Do Good Challenge have announced “Do Good Booster Fund” recipients for this year’s competition.

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January 30, 2015
Executive Education Growth Triples Industry Pace at UMD Smith School

COLLEGE PARK, Md. (Jan. 30, 2015) — Executive education activity at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business grew by more than 22 percent in 2014— eclipsing the 7 percent industrywide rate, according to the International Consortium for Executive Education (UNICON).

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January 30, 2015
How to Get Your Team to Pull Together

SMITH BRAIN TRUST -- All those team-building exercises aren’t enough, it turns out.

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January 29, 2015
Will the Super Bowl survive in 2065?

SMITH BRAIN TRUST -- Logistics Professor Philip T. Evers, who has taught sports business at the Smith School, tackles five Super Bowl questions: 1. Who will win? 2. What is the economic impact of hosting the game? 3.

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January 29, 2015
Uber defies Maryland regulators

SMITH BRAIN TRUST -- Annapolis, Md., is the latest municipality to join the fight against Uber. But abiding by government regulations isn't part of the company's long-term strategy, says Smith Professor Brent Goldfarb.

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January 28, 2015
Blizzard of 2015 Hits Low-Wage Earners Hardest

SMITH BRAIN TRUST -- Smith School professor Peter Morici says low-wage workers took the economic brunt of the Blizzard of 2015 along the East Coast.

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January 28, 2015
European Marketing Academy Honors Roland Rust

Roland Rust, active with research and academic institutions in England and the Netherlands, is one of two people this year to be elected a Fellow of the European Marketing Academy (EMAC).

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January 27, 2015
18 Winners Selected for Smith’s Second Photo Contest

If a picture is worth 1,000 words, the judges of Smith’s Photo Contest had 199,000 to read through – that’s approximately a 633-page book, in case you are curious.

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