Snider Center News

May 6, 2015
Tesla Wants a Parking Spot in Your House

SMITH BRAIN TRUST -- Tesla, the electric-car company and Silicon Valley darling, has announced it would be selling new battery systems for homes and businesses.

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April 2, 2015
Lecture Explores Why Business Students Should Pay Attention to Changes in the Family

Why do we commonly think of the family and the capitalist market as mutually exclusive domains? Many see the family as the realm of love and intimacy and the market as the realm of self-interested individuals. But in fact, the two have always been deeply inter-related.

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March 26, 2015
Smith Brain Trust Delivers Bite-Sized Business Insights

COLLEGE PARK, Md. (March 26, 2015) — Working professionals with an interest in the Washington, D.C., region have a new source for bite-sized business insights, delivered weekly to their inboxes from the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business.

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March 24, 2015
Washington Post Article Explores Lessons That Future Business Leaders Need to Know

In a Washington Post article published on March 16, 2105, Ed Snider Center Director Rajshree Agarwal explores why it’s important for business students to learn about the ethics and principles required to create value, not just focus on issues surrounding how value ought to be distributed. 

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March 20, 2015
Fostering the Entrepreneurial Spirit Workshop

The Ed Snider Center for Enterprise and Markets at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business is pleased to announce a special workshop this summer for educators called Fostering the Entrepreneurial Spirit.

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March 2, 2015
UMD’s Smith School to Serve 90 High School Students
SELF, LEAD Programs Cater to Underrepresented Groups

COLLEGE PARK, Md. (March 2, 2015) -- About 90 high school students from underrepresented groups will study entrepreneurship and leadership this summer in two programs at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business.

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February 24, 2015
Justice & Markets Lecture Series

The Snider Center announces the first lecture of the Justice & Markets lecture series, designed to introduce student and the public to topics in philosophy, ethics, and business. 

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February 19, 2015
Snider Center Director to Take Central Role in University Commission to Chart the Future

University of Maryland President Wallace D. Loh has appointed the director of the Snider Center, Dr. Rajshree Agarwal, to chair a commission to “chart a road map to competitive excellence” for the future.

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February 11, 2015
Economic Inequality Debate Explores Role of Individuals in Society

We all are members of communities, citizens of nations and participants in a global economic and cultural conversation. As members of these complex and overlapping systems, how do we define our rights as individuals and our responsibilities to society? How we answer these questions is likely fundamental to our outlook on economic inequality and how it should be addressed today. 

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February 4, 2015
Inaugural Ed Snider Center Debate on Enterprise and Markets: Inequality, Institutions and Organizations

Should increasing inequality in outcomes within and across nations be of primary concern to business and society today? Does economic progress and growth depend on reducing inequality of outcomes? 

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