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March 9, 2009
U.S. Hospitals Waste $12 Billion Annually Because of Poor Communication

College Park, Md. – March 9, 2009 — Researchers from the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business put a price tag on the cost of poor communication in U.S. hospitals at $12 billion per year.

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March 2, 2009
Smith School Hosts Thai American Business Program Conference

William Klausner, president of the James H.W. Thompson Foundation, said it best: “The road to the future is always under construction.” At the Thai American Business Program Conference on March 3, hosted by the Robert H. Smith School of Business, and co-sponsored by the Royal Thai Embassy and Smith School’s Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER), former U.S.

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February 2, 2009
Thai American Business Program Conference

US and Thailand:  Business at the CrossroadsMarriott Inn and Conference Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD March 2-3, 2009 

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January 23, 2009
Undergrads Invited to Battle Uncertain Economy with an Edge in Business

College Park, Md. – February 23, 2009 — The University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business today announced it is accepting applications for Smith Business Edge, an intensive six-week summer program that provides non-business undergraduate students and recent graduates with opportunities to build stronger leadership skills and business acumen. 

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January 21, 2009
University of Maryland Invites Essayists to Take a Byte Out of Cybersecurity

College Park, Md. – January 21, 2009 – The University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business invites innovative solutions to one of the 21st century’s most pressing concerns – how to allocate scarce resources to protect the massive amount of personal and sensitive data available on computer networks and online.

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January 19, 2009
Ukrainian Orphanage Project

Broadcast Dates: Jan. 22, 7:30 p.m. | Jan. 25, 7:30 a.m. | Jan. 26, 4:30 a.m.

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January 8, 2009
Smith Students Win Wake Forest Undergraduate Case Challenge

The Babcock Graduate School of Management hosted the 19th Annual Wake Forest MBA Marketing Summit from February 5-7. But it was Smith's undergraduates who took a starring role, taking home first place at the Undergraduate Case Challenge. Mary Harms, lecturer in marketing, was the faculty mentor for the team.

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January 1, 2009
Student Project Grows Organization to Help Orphans

Between the ages of 15 and 18, many orphans in Ukraine fall victim to drugs, prostitution and even suicide as they are forced to the leave the orphanage and transition into adulthood. But a group of University of Maryland undergraduates in theQUEST program at the Robert H.

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December 12, 2008
University of Maryland Selected to Pilot Program for Social Change

College Park, Md. – December 11, 2008 – The University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business today announced it has been selected as an inaugural “Changemaker Campus” in partnership with Ashoka, a non-profit network of social entrepreneurs. Ashoka chose the University of Maryland as one of four U.S.

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December 1, 2008
Smith PhD Candidate’s Award-Winning Research Focuses on the Digitization of Microfinance

Mingfeng Lin, a PhD candidate at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, is studying the value of online social networks and “social commerce” and he has won a handful of awards along the way, including the prestigious Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Dissertation Fellowship (2009-10).

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