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October 13, 2020
Maryland Smith Joins Big Ten B-Schools to Increase Pipeline of Diverse Faculty

Business schools from the Big Ten universities are teaming up to increase diversity in their PhD programs. Rebecca Hann, assistant dean of doctoral programs and accounting professor, is leading the charge at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business.

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October 12, 2020
Applying Business Acumen To Help Student Groups Thrive

How does a student club establish and maintain successful and efficient operational processes? It helps to have some good advice.

That’s the idea behind the creation of the Snider Consulting Group.

Maryland Smith junior Joseph Houghton said he was motivated to launch SCG, after realizing a need for greater support among student groups. 

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October 9, 2020
Why CSVC Created a Handbook for Impact Consulting

Amidst a pandemic, the Center for Social Value Creation has created an unlikely source of commonality between universities: a guidebook.

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October 9, 2020
Maryland Smith Researchers Awarded NSA Funding for ‘Cost-Benefit Analysis of Information Sharing’

The National Security Agency's Laboratory for Telecommunication Sciences (LTS) has awarded research funding for a project titled "Cost-Benefit Analysis of Information Sharing" by professors Lawrence Gordon and Martin Loeb and Research Scholar

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October 5, 2020
Investors and ESG

In ‘The Second Objective Function,’ CFP launches a free webinar series that explores the environmental, social and corporate governance questions that are most pressing for organizations and investors today.

Can a firm’s level of CO2 emissions predict the level of returns for its shareholders?

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October 1, 2020
Having Critical Conversations at Work
How Mentors, Community Help Create Diverse, Inclusive Workplaces

For Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) professionals, getting ahead in the corporate environment can be difficult. But they don’t need to walk the road alone.

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October 1, 2020
Busboys, Poets and Pivoting During COVID

Andy Shallal, EMBA ’19, has seen first-hand how COVID-19 is impacting the restaurant industry across the greater D.C. region and beyond. Despite the challenges, Shallal believes it’s not time for restaurant and business owners to throw in the towel just yet.

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October 1, 2020
CIBE Consortium Selects CIBER CMCC Grant Award Winners

In partnership with the CIBE Consortium for Minority-Serving Institution (MSI) and Community College (CC) (CMCC), the Center for Global Business (CGB) awarded five faculty the CIBE CMCC Grant in September 2020. The consortium is comprised of nine universities that are all home to a Title VI CIBE grant.

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September 30, 2020
Maryland Smith-CHIDS Conference on Health IT & Analytics Goes Virtual Oct. 8-10

The Center for Health Information and Decision Systems (CHIDS) at the University of Maryland's Robert H.

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September 29, 2020
In ‘TECH-nicolor:’ How Maryland Smith Alumni Are Changing Tech

At today’s leading technology companies, executives are making a commitment to achieving greater diversity, equity and inclusion. And, at Google, SpaceX and Workday, Maryland Smith alumni are leading the charge.

At an event this week, they gathered, virtually, to network with Maryland Smith students and alumni, and to discuss how their work is helping to reshape the tech sector.

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