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The MBA Media, Sports, and Entertainment Club (MSEA) is hosting a Networking Mixer and Panel on March 31, 2014. The topic is: Managing Relationships, Contacts, and Interactions for Maximum Effectiveness. Dr. Kay Bartol is on the panel and will be discussing ways to best leverage your professional network. This event will be useful for everyone, regardless of current job/internship status…
INDUSTRY LEADING ENTREPRENEUERS ANNOUNCED TO JUDGE NATIONAL BUSINESS COMPETITION CHAIRED BY UNDER ARMOUR FOUNDER AND CEO
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The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) recently awarded funding to Dr. Sally Simpson for her research grant, White-Collar and Corporate Frauds: Understanding and Measuring Public Policy Preferences, with Co-PIs Dr. Mark Cohen (Vanderbilt University) and Dr. Tom Loughran (UMD). This research will investigate the costs of white-collar crime.
Smith Marketing professor Roland Rust, commenting in The New York Times this week, said General Motors' social media strategy in response to its timing and handling of an ignition switch recall is “absolutely the right thing to do.”
Hot Topic Alert: March 26, 2014 Attention: Economic and financial reporters and editors
March 24, 2014 - The Robert H. Smith Center for Complexity in Business, in cooperation with the MS Program in Marketing Analytics, is excited to announce their first Amazon Web Services in Education grant of $3,800 USD of usage credits. The grant was applied for by the Center’s Director, Dr.
Six student startups were selected from nearly 150 nationwide entries to advance to the final round in the 2014 Cupid’s Cup Business Competition, chaired by Under Armour founder and CEO Kevin Plank and presented by the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business.
The Center for Social Value Creation at the Robert H. Smith School of Business hosted the 6th Annual Social Enterprise Symposium on March 7, 2014.