Faculty Impact Articles

September 3, 2015
Four Success-or-Fail Factors for Retailers in China

SMITH BRAIN TRUST -- Some foreign retailers in China are stumbling. Others are thriving. Count Home Depot and Best Buy among recent failures.

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August 28, 2015
UMD-FDA Workshop on Mobile Health and Social Media Analytics for Product Safety
UMD Smith Researchers to Join Experts to Address Harnessing mHealth, Social Media Data for Medical-Product Safety

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.

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August 25, 2015
Will the Fed Raise Interest Rates? Albert 'Pete' Kyle

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August 25, 2015
UMD’s Smith School Appoints Dean of Learning
Veteran Educator to Focus on Transforming the Student Experience

COLLEGE PARK, Md. (Aug. 25, 2015) — As part of an ongoing commitment to transform learning, the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business has appointed one of its most accomplished educators to fill a new position focused on the student experience.

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August 25, 2015
Will the Fed Raise Interest Rates? William Longbrake

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — William Longbrake is Executive in Residence at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, and senior policy advisor at the school’s Center for Financial Policy.

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August 24, 2015
Market Jitters? Stay the Course

SMITH BRAIN TRUST -- This week’s market selloff has made a lot of people itchy to trade stocks. They want to sell before things get worse or, alternatively, maybe pick up some bargains.

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August 21, 2015
Toshiba's Accounting Scandal: Catching the Fuzzy Math

SMITH BRAIN TRUST -- Toshiba is known for producing televisions, computers — and, as of this summer, an epic accounting scandal.

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August 14, 2015
High Frequency Trading: Focus on ‘Troll Under Bridge’

SMITH BRAIN TRUST -- High-frequency traders provide a useful service but rig the system when they extract tolls from investors, a professor from the University of Maryla

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August 14, 2015
Shaming Your Highly Paid CEO

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — Can American companies be embarrassed out of paying their CEOs hundreds of times what the average worker makes? The SEC wants to find out.

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August 12, 2015
The Renaming — and Reinvention? — of Google

SMITH BRAIN TRUST -- Google set the business world abuzz Monday by announcing a reorganization: Google's founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, will now head a new entity called Alphabe

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