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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.
March 18, 2020
Is the ETF Boom Stoking Market Volatility?
Do ETFs contribute to market volatility? New research may hold the answer.
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Is the ETF Boom Stoking Market Volatility?
March 17, 2020
What’s Your Personal VaR?
Managing your own investment risk like a bank can provide a way to quantify your appetite for risk under a wide range of outcomes in a consistent and easily understood manner.
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What’s Your Personal VaR?
March 12, 2020
In the Eurozone, a Familiar Worry Over a New Disease
What will the pandemic mean for the future of the eurozone? It’s a new fear with familiar echoes.
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In the Eurozone, a Familiar Worry Over a New Disease
March 12, 2020
Don't Touch Your Face. Or Your Stocks.
For investors concerned about market uncertainty invoked by the coronavirus: Don’t touch your face and certainly don’t touch those stocks.
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Don't Touch Your Face. Or Your Stocks.
March 11, 2020
Working Remotely?
Want to perform like a highly effective virtual team during the Covid-19 crisis? Do these five things.
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Working Remotely?
March 11, 2020
Why QR Codes Are Coming Back In a Big Way
They used to seem so pointless. But here's why they matter now – for everything from concert tickets to Covid-19 tracking.
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Why QR Codes Are Coming Back In a Big Way
March 5, 2020
How Narcissists Affect Teams At Work
When it comes to empowering a team to do their best work, you don’t want a narcissist at the helm, finds new research.
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How Narcissists Affect Teams At Work
March 5, 2020
Inside the Gender Data Divide
At a time when data can influence much of our lives, it turns out that the data that researchers collect, broadly speaking, tend to be based on men’s – more than women’s – experiences.
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Inside the Gender Data Divide
March 3, 2020
In Healthcare, Marketing Should Focus on Patients
Big regulatory shifts and advancing technology in healthcare call for big shifts in healthcare marketing, where creating value for patients is paramount, say researchers at Maryland Smith’s Center for Health Information and Decision Systems.
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In Healthcare, Marketing Should Focus on Patients
February 25, 2020
Love Your Work and Your Paycheck, Too? Don’t Tell the Hiring Manager
New research finds hiring managers are biased against job candidates who reveal interest in things like pay and benefits, not just the work itself. But being motivated by both is better for organizations and employees.
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Love Your Work and Your Paycheck, Too? Don’t Tell the Hiring Manager