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October 14, 2015
Coming Soon: A Social Media Tool to Predict Elections

SMITH BRAIN TRUST -- Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton gained 15,000 Twitter followers during Tuesday’s Democratic debate.

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October 14, 2015
Smith Recaptures Marketing Summit

For the third time in seven years, the Smith School reigns as champion of the Wake Forest Marketing Analytics case competition in the undergraduate division.

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October 8, 2015
Diversity in Business

An upcoming Smith School conversation on diversity pinpoints how the Fortune 500 can achieve racial diversity on corporate boards. The Diversity Fireside Chat event will feature John W.

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October 7, 2015
Smith Student Draws High Honor at Global Marketing Research Summit

COLLEGE PARK, Md. – Oct. 7, 2015 – Marketing PhD student Seoungwoo Lee of the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business has captured the 2015 Shankar-Spiegel Dissertation Proposal Award from the nonprofit organization Marketing EDGE.

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October 6, 2015
4 Students Receive Scholars Citation Certificate

Four of the best students in the College Park Scholars Business Society and the Economy (BSE) program at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business were celebrated on Friday, Oct. 2, 2015, at the Annual Citation Awards Ceremony.

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October 1, 2015
The Science of Retweets

SMITH BRAIN TRUST -- What's the best time to tweet, to ensure maximum audience engagement? Researchers at the Robert H.

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September 8, 2015
Why Binge Watching Is Bad for Hulu

SMITH BRAIN TRUST -- Binge-watching television — taking in a season or more of "Mad Men," "Silicon Valley" or "Scandal" in a couple of days — has become a much-discussed new pastime, made tempting by streaming services such as Netflix, Hulu and Amazon, with their vast stores of shows.

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September 3, 2015
Will Google Join These Logo Losers?

SMITH BRAIN TRUST -- Google changes its logo every day with clever home page animations, but the latest iteration is more permanent.

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August 28, 2015
UMD-FDA Workshop on Mobile Health and Social Media Analytics for Product Safety
UMD Smith Researchers to Join Experts to Address Harnessing mHealth, Social Media Data for Medical-Product Safety

The Food and Drug Administration is looking to get, and stay, on the same page with producers and users of medical wearables. The FDA mission to regulate medical devices to protect consumers is challenged by the mobile health field continuously innovating new products.

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August 12, 2015
How to Deal With That Irate Tweeting Customer

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — Twitter can be a brutal world for customer-service wor

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