Faculty Impact Articles

February 24, 2017
VW's Electric Vehicle Plan Is a Step, Not a Panacea

SMITH BRAIN TRUST – Can Volkswagen’s recently announced $2 billion spending plan on zero emission and electric vehicles be a tipping point for the U.S.

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February 22, 2017
A Better Mate for Kraft Heinz?

SMITH BRAIN TRUST – It was a brief courtship, and then an amicable parting of ways. But for Kraft Heinz, there may be other fish in the sea.

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February 22, 2017
Why Are Corporate Boardrooms Still Overwhelmingly Male?

SMITH BRAIN TRUST – How close are the Fortune 500 companies to achieving gender equality on their corporate boards? They've got a long way to go, baby.

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February 21, 2017
UMD-Smith Names Michael Faulkender Associate Dean of Master’s Programs

COLLEGE PARK, Md. - Associate Professor of Finance Michael Faulkender has been named Associate Dean for Masters Programs at the University of Maryland’s Robert H.

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February 15, 2017
Could This Be the Key To a Better Sharing Economy?

SMITH BRAIN TRUST – The car you rented as part of your auto-share club reeked of cigarette smoke and a cross-country roadtrip worth of crumbs littered the seats and floor.

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February 15, 2017
The Quirk in the IRS’s Tuition-Reporting Rules

SMITH BRAIN TRUST – College-tuition-paying tax filers should be extra careful when claiming that tax credit – at least for one more year.

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February 9, 2017
C-BERC Meets about Business Ethics & Academic Integrity

In Dec. 2016, Gideon Mark, associate director of the Center for the Study of Business Ethics, Regulation and Crime (C-BERC), met with the University of Maryland Undergraduate Studies Faculty Fellows to discuss the relevance of business ethics to academic integrity issues at their weekly meeting.

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February 8, 2017
Why Snapchat’s OMG IPO Is Raising Eyebrows

SMITH BRAIN TRUST – When

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February 6, 2017
Mischief or Monotony? Why Employees Break Rules

SMITH BRAIN TRUST – When employees break the rules at work, it might not be mischief. It might be monotony.

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February 3, 2017
The Trouble with Trump’s Executive Order on New Regulations

By SAM HANDWERGER

SMITH BRAIN TRUST - “OK, tell me what to do.”

“I can't tell you.”

“Why not?”

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