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Last week (June 26-29, 2014), academic experts and business leaders from countries around the world gathered in Miami, Florida, for the 23rd Annual Frontiers in Service Conference, hosted by the School of Business Administration at the University of Miami. 

The University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business chapter of the American Marketing Association had a successful trip to the AMA International Collegiate Conference in New Orleans in April 2014. terpAMA was named one of the top 25 chapters for the third consecutive year, and the chapter’s Design Fellows program finished third in the conference’s case competition.

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The world is gearing up for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Marketers are also gearing up to capitalize on the Games. 

Wendy Moe, an associate professor of marketing at the University of Maryland’s Smith School of Business, has won the 2014 Robert D. Buzzell Marketing Science Institute Best Paper Award for her research on social media intelligence. 

The Robert H. Smith School of Business has expanded its reputation as a research and knowledge hub with top-25 showings in three recent worldwide rankings.

On March 28, 2014, at the North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center in Bethesda, Md., students, faculty and business professionals met for the third annual Smith School Business Summit.  This year’s theme looked at innovation as an essential building block for the prosperity an

Smith Marketing professor Roland Rust, commenting in The New York Times this week, said General Motors' social media strategy in response to its timing and handling of an ignition switch recall is “absolutely the right thing to do.”

March 24, 2014 - The Robert H. Smith Center for Complexity in Business, in cooperation with the MS Program in Marketing Analytics, is excited to announce their first Amazon Web Services in Education grant of $3,800 USD of usage credits.  The grant was applied for by the Center’s Director, Dr.