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SMITH BRAIN TRUST — Berkshire Hathaway chairman and CEO Warren Buffett’s 86th birthday on Tuesday prompted a CNBC writer to explore Buffett’s interpretation of luck as a success factor i

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — The 2014 book “Flash Boys” resonated with investors fed up with a market “rigged” in favor of high-frequency traders who use sophisticated software and algorithms to trade in and out of stocks in milliseconds. Now, t

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — Executives at pharmaceutical company Mylan have come under attack for giving themselves raises while boosting the price of a lifesaving injection device by more th

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — As investing icons Carl Icahn, George Soros and Leon Cooperman have exited Apple and its lagging stock, Warren Buffett has reasserted a value-investor approach by up

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — Democrats and Republicans are

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — Told big bank failure would trigger a flood of bankruptcies and economic calamity, U.S.

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — “Divorces are tough,” says economist Peter Morici at the University of Maryland’s Robert H.

The University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business is excited to announce some favorite books in the "13th Annual Top-10 Summer Reading List for Business Leaders" for 2016, as recommended by members of its faculty and administrators.

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — Since the global financial crisis, “active” fund managers — stock pickers looking to beat the market — have lost ground to their “passive“ counterparts, as

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — Berkshire Hathaway’s small but much-discussed bite of Apple suggests a vote of confidence for a tech giant that had been sliding in the stock market.