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January 28, 2016
Spotting Free-Agent Bargains in Baseball

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — By using advanced baseball statistics, it's possible to predict the mo

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December 10, 2015
Five Keys for a World-Class B-School

SMITH BRAIN TRUST -- Challenges to business schools fall into five universal categories.

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December 3, 2015
Patent Reform to Unleash Innovation

The U.S. patent system was set up to reward and encourage innovation. But there are lots of challenges. Exponential growth in patent applications have patent examiners overwhelmed, and patent disputes clog the court system with litigation from corporations and other patent holders.

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November 24, 2015
Smith School Partners with Office of Financial Research on Research Challenge

​The Robert H. Smith School of Business is partnering with the Office of Financial Research on a  challenge for research teams to link four disparate financial datasets.

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November 11, 2015
Yes, You Can Catch Obesity From Your Coworkers

SMITH BRAIN TRUST —

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November 4, 2015
The 'Disruption' of Higher Education

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — Are today's colleges going the way of Blockbuster after the rise of Netflix and streaming video? Things might not be quite so dire. But Henry C.

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November 2, 2015
MS in Information Systems Students win National Codeathon

A team of students from the Master of Science in Information Systems (MSIS) program at the University of Maryland's Robert H.

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October 8, 2015
Computers Match Doctors in Predicting Patient Discharges

SMITH BRAIN TRUST -- A computer can do as good a job of predicting how many patients will be discharged from a hospital unit on a given day as doctors and nurses can, according to ne

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October 1, 2015
In Defense of the Unpopular Health Care 'Cadillac Tax'

SMITH BRAIN TRUST -- Hillary Clinton on Tuesday aligned

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September 21, 2015
What Your Facebook Friends Say About Your Credit Worthiness

SMITH BRAIN TRUST -- Joining a social network means trading privacy for information. A 2015 Harvard University study found Facebook’s privacy policy to be increasingly opaque and less explanatory.

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