Faculty Impact Articles

September 4, 2013
Smith Researchers Receive $200K to Complete Cyber Supply Chain Portal

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded $200,000 to the Supply Chain Management Center (SCMC) at the Robert H. Smith School of Business for research and development of enterprise tools and technologies for managing risk in the cyber supply chain.

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September 4, 2013
5th Annual Conference on Complexity in Business

The 5th annual conference on complexity in business will be held in downtown Washington, DC on November 7 and 8, 2013.  This conference, sponsored by the Center for Complexity in Business at the Robert H. Smith School of Business is the premier meeting to discuss research at the intersection of complex systems and business.

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August 30, 2013
New PhDs Join Smith for Fall 2013

Jared Watson was pumping gas at a Costco near Seattle when he read the email that he gotten into the PhD program at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business. “I almost fainted,” he recalls. Watson’s dream of becoming a marketing professor was about to begin. He moved to the East Coast to begin the fall 2013 semester with Smith’s new cohort of 18 PhD students.

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August 30, 2013
Smith School Welcomes New Faculty for Fall 2013

Six top researchers and teachers joined the full-time faculty at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business to start the fall 2013 semester. They earned their PhDs at some of the top universities. Two new adjunct instructors will also be teaching courses this fall. 

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August 29, 2013
Smith Business Close-Up: Hedge funds: For average investors?

Air dates: Thursday, August 29, 2013, 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, September 1, 2013, 7:30 a.m.

Hedge funds have been characterized as an investment vehicle exclusively for the wealthy. What makes these elusive funds so lucrative and can an average investor get in on them?

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August 14, 2013
UMD-Smith Expert says US Airways-American Merger may be 'a Bridge Too Far'
Media Alert: Aug. 14, 2013
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August 13, 2013
UMD Business Experts Discuss Newspaper Industry Shifts
Media Alert: Aug. 13, 2013
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August 9, 2013
Marketing Analytics Roundtable Highlights

The Robert H. Smith School of Business’s Center for Complexity in Business held its second-annual Digital Marketing Analytics Roundtable Aug. 1, 2013 at the Smith Suite in the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C. The roundtable was held in collaboration with Teradata.

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August 6, 2013
Smith Expert: Odds Against Workers in Fast Food Wage Rebellion
Aug. 6, 2013Media AlertAttention: Business and Economics Editors and Reporters

COLLEGE PARK, Md. – Long odds face U.S. fast food workers who have been demanding higher wages, says an expert in the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business.

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August 5, 2013
SEC-Seasoned Experts Return to Smith

As a Securities and Exchange Commission deputy chief economist, Kathleen Weiss Hanley has garnered praise for delivering “critical thought leadership” and spurring “rigorous economic modeling.”

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