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The lifeblood of a business school is its faculty, and at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business our faculty members are inspiring, supportive and world-class. We are attuned to a marketplace that values innovation, entrepreneurialism, analytical thinking and hard work. Our teaching and research equips students with the wisdom of business scholarship rooted in the experiential lessons of the marketplace.
April 2, 2019
The Upsides of Swimming in a Crowded Pool
Investors hate competition because it destroys firm value, but it also spreads the risk among many players when market demand falls.
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The Upsides of Swimming in a Crowded Pool
March 13, 2019
Why Do a Corporate Spinoff?
Why would a company with a portfolio of brands seek to do a corporate spinoff? And what does the move mean for shareholders?
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Why Do a Corporate Spinoff?
March 13, 2019
Why the Swiss Want a 1,000-Franc Note
Switzerland’s newest banknote begins circulating this week, and it’s an attention-grabber. It’s not because the new bills are loaded with futuristic security features, however. It’s because they are controversially large.
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Why the Swiss Want a 1,000-Franc Note
March 8, 2019
How Do Banks Finance the Unproven Startup?
Banks are the largest source of external financing for startups. Yet banks lack the expertise to monitor startups the way venture capital firms and angel investors do.
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How Do Banks Finance the Unproven Startup?
March 4, 2019
Do Public Firms Get a Bad Rap?
Pressure to deliver quarterly returns can drive managerial myopia. Recent studies link the short-termism to Wall Street culture and dynamics. But a deeper analysis tells a different story.
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Do Public Firms Get a Bad Rap?
February 11, 2019
An Analyst's Actual Impact
How much do analysts really move markets? New research examine the role that reports play in determining an analyst's future at big investment banks.
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An Analyst's Actual Impact
February 4, 2019
Echoes of the Financial Crisis, in Drug Manufacturing
The crisis over tainted heart drugs made in China and sold in the U.S. had an oddly familiar ring to it for Maryland Smith’s Clifford Rossi. But it wasn’t a previous medical drug crisis that crept to mind for him.
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Echoes of the Financial Crisis, in Drug Manufacturing
January 24, 2019
The Widening Effects of the Federal Shutdown
As the federal shutdown continues, now well past 30 days, its effects are spreading ever wider, Maryland Smith's Elinda F. Kiss writes. Here is what it looks like now.
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The Widening Effects of the Federal Shutdown
January 8, 2019
Why There's Now One Less Worry for Markets
There was a key development on Capitol Hill last week you might have missed. The decades-old Gephardt Rule, which seeks to avoid having the U.S. run afoul of the debt limit, was given new life.
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Why There's Now One Less Worry for Markets
December 19, 2018
Make – and Keep – Your Financial Resolution
“A New Year’s Resolution is a promise to yourself,” Maryland Smith’s Elinda F. Kiss says. Here's how to make a financial resolution and make it stick.
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Make – and Keep – Your Financial Resolution