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March 17, 2017
Why Your Next Performance Review Might Never End

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — Those annual employee performance reviews can be pretty stressful. But what if instead of being a once-a-year thing with just your boss, they were every day, with everyone you work with? JPMorgan Chase & Co.

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March 17, 2017
Kristin LaRiviere: On the Move

Smith Undergrad Staff SpotlightKristin LaRiviere, Assistant Director of Undergraduate Programs

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March 16, 2017
Ladies First: Women Learn About Early-Stage Investing at Dingman Center

Currently, only 25 percent of angel investors in the United States are women. The Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business is hoping to help change that.

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March 16, 2017
Fearless Idea 16: Crack the Earnings Puzzle

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — Wall Street responds to surprises, but not always in intuitive ways. Share prices go up at the firm level when a company issues a stronger than expected earnings report, which makes sense.

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March 16, 2017
Gender Diversity on Corporate Boards: How Do We Get There?

Gender diversity can improve a firm's performance, research shows, but consensus is fleeting as to why a lack diversity persists on corporate boards.

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March 16, 2017
Digital Co-creation with Customers

Investing in CRM and Analytics Key to Paradigm Shift in Product Innovation 

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March 16, 2017
Grip Boost Founders on Dingman Bootstrapped Discuss Funding and Unlikely Customers

The Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship produces Bootstrapped, a podcast featuring founders, investors and serial entrepreneurs.

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March 15, 2017
Why Starbucks Is Dipping into Ice Cream

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — Has Starbucks figured out a way to entice its devoted morning-coffee crowd to come back later in the day? The Seattle-based retail chain is rolling out a line of ice cream coffee treats — called affogatos — at 100 stores across the country, betting that a more decade

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March 15, 2017
Scandals Won't Kill Uber, But This Could

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — Uber has amassed a string of negative headlines in recent months.

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March 15, 2017
Dennis Zhuo '17 Talks about Lemma Senbet Fund

Victor Mullins, associate dean of the undergraduate program at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business, recently interviewed Dennis Zhuo, ’17 to discuss his involvement with the Lemma Senbet Fund and how it is part of his SMITH JOURNEY.

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