Faculty Impact Articles

October 11, 2013
The Road to the Debt Ceiling Impasse and Beyond - Videos
Curt Grimm, professor and Charles E. Taff Chair of Economics and Strategy for the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business, warns of potential court system chaos among other implications from Congress failing to raise the U.S. debt ceiling.
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October 8, 2013
How Can Technology Change Pedagogy?

Drawing Smith to Pedagogy’s Cutting Edge Educause Taps Hank Lucas’ Insight to MOOCs, Learning Technology

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October 2, 2013
UMD Business Experts Available to Expand on Shutdown, Debt Ceiling Comments
Media Alert: Oct. 2, 2013Attention:  Financial, economic reporters and editors

COLLEGE PARK, Md. - Financial and economic experts in the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business are available to expand on their comments, below, about implications of the federal government shutdown and debt ceiling debate. 

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October 1, 2013
UMD-Smith a Health Insurance Marketplace Catalyst

COLLEGE PARK, Md. - While attention focuses on the October 1 launch of a nationwide "health insurance marketplace,"  the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business has provided expertise behind the scenes of this Affordable Care Act milestone. 

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September 26, 2013
Russ Wermers to Lead Center for Financial Policy

COLLEGE PARK, Md. - Professor of Finance Russ Wermers has been appointed as Director of the Center for Financial Policy (CFP) at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business.

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September 19, 2013
Smith CIBER Funds Two Faculty for Professional Development in Africa and Asia

Stephanie Eckerd, Assistant Professor in the Department of Logistics, Business, and Public Policy and Paulo Prochno, Tyser Teaching Fellow and Associate Chair of the Department of Mana

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September 19, 2013
UMD Business Expert Breaks Down Twitter IPO

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September 18, 2013
Fed Unexpectedly Maintains Bond Buying Pace
Media Alert: Sept. 18, 2013 Attention financial, economics reporters

COLLEGE PARK, Md. - University of Maryland experts from the Robert H. Smith School of Business are available to comment on today’s surprise announcement from the Federal Reserve that it will refrain from tapering its $85 billion in monthly bond buying.

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September 12, 2013
Smith Business Close-Up: Social Media Intelligence

Air dates: Thursday, September 12, 2013, 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, September 15, 2013, 7:30 a.m.

Twitter, Facebook, discussion blogs, review sites – consumers are out there talking about businesses and products, and those business should be paying attention. How can marketers monitor these online conversations use it to their advantage?

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September 12, 2013
University of Maryland Names Smith School of Business Prof. Michel Wedel Top Scholar, Teacher

College Park, Md. – September 12, 2013 – Michel Wedel, the Pepsico Professor of Consumer Science at the Robert H.

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