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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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

The University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business is happy to welcome nine new faculty members for the 2015-2016 academic year. New faculty joined the Smith School in August in following areas:

Accounting and Information Assurance

Marketing professor Michel Wedel has been named a Distinguished University Professor – the University of Maryland’s highest academic honor that’s reserved for a limited number of professors whose scholarly activities have brought distinction to t