Faculty Impact Articles

November 15, 2012
Smith Business Close-Up: Productivity and the Bottom Line

Thursday, November 15, 2012, 7:30 p.m. & Sunday, November 18, 2012, 7:30 a.m.

Organizations are often in a race to increase productivity – a good thing in the business world. But too much service productivity can actually cut into a company’s revenue, according to new research from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland.

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November 14, 2012
UMD Smith School of Business Cybersecurity Experts Win Major Homeland Security Grant

College Park, Md. – November 14, 2012 – World-leading cybersecurity researchers at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business won a significant grant from the Department of Homeland Security to develop economic models for cybersecurity investments.

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November 13, 2012
Ritu Agarwal to E-Chat with Global Audience Nov. 14

Ritu Agarwal, founder and director of the Center for Health Information and Decision Systems and professor and the Dean’s Chair of Information Systems, will discuss her recent study, “The Benefits of Combining Data with Empathy,” in an e-chat hosted by All Analytics, an online community

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November 5, 2012
Ritu Agarwal to E-Chat with Global Audience Nov. 14

Ritu Agarwal, founder and director of the Center for Health Information and Decision Systems and professor and the Dean’s Chair of Information Systems, will discuss her recent study, “The Benefits of Combining Data with Empathy,” in an e-chat hosted by All Analytics, an online community for information management, business intelligence and

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November 5, 2012
Smith Business Close-Up: Productivity and the Bottom Line

Thursday, November 15, 2012, 7:30 p.m. & Sunday, November 18, 2012, 7:30 a.m.

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November 5, 2012
Smith School Experts Available Election Night

Media Alert: November 5, 2012

Experts in the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business are available through election night to comment on topics related to closing campaign activity and the outcome of the presidential election.

Financial-Economic Policy Implications

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November 4, 2012
Smith Business Close-Up: Narcissism is a Bad Sign

Thursday, November 1, 2012, 7:30 p.m. & Sunday, November 4, 2012, 7:30 a.m.

In this edition of Smith Business Close-Up with the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School ofBusiness, Nick Seybert talks about his new research that looks at the size of CEO’s signatures on annualSEC filings to measure narcissism and how that relates to firm performance.

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November 1, 2012
UMD Business, Public Policy Experts Comment on Fiscal Cliff

Media Alert Nov. 1, 2012 

With the year-ending “fiscal cliff” approaching, faculty experts from the University of Maryland's School of Public Policy and Robert H. Smith School of Business are available to comment on implications of this impending economic slowdown due to expiring tax cuts plus dramatic spending cuts established by Budget Control Act of 2011.

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November 1, 2012
Smith Business Close-Up: Narcissism is a Bad Sign

Thursday, November 1, 2012, 7:30 p.m. & Sunday, November 4, 2012, 7:30 a.m.

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November 1, 2012
Research@Smith: Fall 2012

Capitalism as Crime Prevention Capital controls spur black markets and murder rates.

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