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Smith Newslink - A Monthly Newsletter for Smith School Alumni

Best Business Books for Summer Reading
Need a break from work? Give your mind a vacation with these stimulating books from our annual "Top 10 Summer Reading List for Business Leaders," as recommended by Smith’s faculty and deans.
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Smith Welcomes 1,100 New Alumni!
Under the towering ceiling of Comcast Center, 780 undergraduates, 300 MBA students, 50 EMBA students, and 12 doctoral students received their business degrees from the Smith School on May 21, 2007. Delivering the keynote address was Teresa Iannaconi, MBA ’78, partner with Big Four accounting firm KPMG and member of its Board of Directors.
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Bringing Global Learning to Life
When it comes to a true global education, sometimes you just have to be there. Students can learn about the tenets of global business in class, but there’s no substitute for experience. That’s why the Smith School gives all of its Executive MBA and custom MBA students in Asia, Europe and the United States the opportunity for real-life global experiences through the global electives courses offered at Smith learning locations around the world. The latest such class was held in Shanghai, China last month.
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The Hidden Dangers of File-Sharing
If you’re worried about identity theft, then avoid downloading a file-sharing client onto your home computer. The risks of peer-to-peer file-sharing was one of the presentations at the Smith School’s Fourth Annual Forum on Financial Information Systems & Cybersecurity: A Public Policy Perspective, held on May 23, 2007.
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Get a Global Perspective
Smith students are producing materials that can help you better understand the issues facing your counterparts around the globe. The Smith School's Black MBA Association debuted a new resource, the Africa Economic Review, in May 2007. The school’s MBA Finance Association produces Smith Asia Business Review.
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Smith Students Beat the Market
Two student-run funds—the Mayer Fund, managed by MBAs, and the Senbet Fund, managed by undergraduates—reported beating Standard & Poor's 500 Index in their year-end performance presentations.
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Smith in the News
The Independent (London) – June 11, 2007 – Business professor Peter Morici is quoted about the U.S. trade gap with China.

Reuters – June 8, 2007 – Business professor Peter Morici is quoted in a story about the U.S. trade gap.

Washington Post – June 4, 2007 – Assistant marketing professor Jie Zhang’s quotes and retail examples appear in a story about teen browse-vs.-buy shopping and retailer response.

The New Yorker – May 28, 2007 – Feature fatigue research from marketing chair Roland Rust, marketing professor Rebecca Hamilton and Debora Viana Thompson, PhD ’06, is highlighted in a column about the complexity of technology.

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June 2007