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The Robert H. Smith School of Business has established the Center for Health Information and Decision Systems (CHIDS), a research and development focusing on the use of advanced information technologies in the health care system’s business processes and management systems.
The Robert H. Smith School of Business, along with the University of Maryland, is opening its doors to help undergraduate business and MBA students displaced from Gulf Coast universities by Hurricane Katrina.
Research by Brian T. Ratchford
THE ABILITY TO RECONCILE SALES FORECASTS WITH SALES PERFORMANCE IS CRITICAL. WHEN IT COMES TO FORECASTING SALES VOLUME/DEMAND AND MAKING SOUND MARKETING DECISIONS, A MULTI-CHANNEL, MULTI-REGION SALES FORECASTING MODEL AND DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM GO A LONG WAY TOWARD MEETING THOSE NEEDS AND CHALLENGES.
The Smith MBA Association is collecting donations to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina this week and next week. The initiative is headed by two first year students Noah Greenberg and Leslie McDowell (pictured, right). We are all very busy right now with quizzes and material to read but there is simply no way of ignoring a disaster of this magnitude, says Greenburg.
Kevin Setzer, a junior at the Smith School, was presented with this year's GEICO Achievement Award on Monday, September 26, in a surprise ceremony by none other than the GEICO Gecko! Each year GEICO selects a student leader at the University of Maryland to receive a scholarship for $1,000 in a college recruiting program that has been rewarding students for about 20 years.
Management
Pay raise satisfaction and pay level satisfaction influence voluntary turnover in very different ways.
Marketing A new forecasting model allows companies to reconcile sales forecasting with sales performance more accurately than ever before.
Research by Ken Smith
Statistical Challenges in E-CommerceMay 22-23, 2005