Faculty Impact Articles

December 3, 2015
Five Reasons Job Creation Disappoints, Despite Uptick

SMITH BRAIN TRUST -- The ADP National Employment Report

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December 3, 2015
Patent Reform to Unleash Innovation

The U.S. patent system was set up to reward and encourage innovation. But there are lots of challenges. Exponential growth in patent applications have patent examiners overwhelmed, and patent disputes clog the court system with litigation from corporations and other patent holders.

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December 2, 2015
Encryption Battle Pits Apple and Google Against the FBI

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — After the terrorist att

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December 1, 2015
Alan Siegfried Honored for Contributions to​ Internal Auditing Profession
​Alan Siegfried, assistant academic director of the MS Accounting Internal Auditing Track and adjunct lecturer at the University of Maryland's Robert H.
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December 1, 2015
Why 'Family' CEOs Think Differently

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — Founder-CEOs and CEOs related t

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November 30, 2015
For U.S. Companies, China Poses New Challenges (and Opportunities)

With double-digit annual GDP growth and the world's largest population, China until recently looked like the long-term answer for U.S. companies seeking never-ending growth.

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November 24, 2015
Smith School Partners with Office of Financial Research on Research Challenge

​The Robert H. Smith School of Business is partnering with the Office of Financial Research on a  challenge for research teams to link four disparate financial datasets.

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November 20, 2015
The Retail Blues

Here's good news if you're looking for discounts, bad news if you're in the retail industry: Third quarter 2015 was brutal for much of the retail sector.

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November 20, 2015
Backlash Against Eye-Popping Drug Prices

Martin Shkreli became the Internet villain of the fall (some publications used much harsher language) when his company, Turing Pharmaceuticals, acquired the rights to Daraprim, which treats a condition called toxoplasmosis — and promptly raised the per-pil

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November 19, 2015
Smith PhD Student’s Dissertation Draws Prestigious INFORMS Honor

The INFORMS Society for Marketing Science (ISMS) has named marketing PhD student Seoungwoo Lee of the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business as a winner in its ISMS Doctoral Dissertation Competition for 2015.

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