Surviving Disruptive Technologies

Research by Henry Lucas Companies must make an early move to either adopt a new business model, or morph the existing model to take advantage of the disruptive innovation.

UMD Business Experts Available to Comment on Kodak and its Bankruptcy Filing

COLLEGE PARK, Md. - With the Eastman Kodak Company filing for bankruptcy, the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland offers experts for related commentary. The Smith School has an in-house facility for live or taped interviews via fiber-optic line for television or multimedia content. Kodak: Too Little, Too Late

Wage Gap: Foreign IT Workers in U.S.

With an unemployment rate of more than 9 percent and significant underemployment, some argue highly skilled foreign-born workers should be restricted from entering the United States on work visas. But do foreign workers really depress the wages of American workers as some reports claim?

Smith Business Close-Up: Wage Gap: Foreign IT Workers in U.S.

Thursday, May 20, 2010, 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, May 23, 2010, 7:30 a.m.; Monday, May 24, 2010, 4:30 a.m.

New Book by Smith Professors Offers Guidance on How to Avoid The Winners Curse

A new book released this month offers guidance on how firms can avoid the kind of corporate victories that end up as disasters, harming shareholders and placing the firms future in jeopardy. Beware the Winners Curse: Victories That Can Sink You and Your Company (Oxford University Press, 2004) expands the model of the Winners Curse to explain how companies like Tyco, MCI-WorldCom and Lucent overpaid for acquisitions, and how shareholders su

How To Guard Against Cyber Attacks

Can centralized IT decision-making protect an organization from cybersecurity breaches?

99 Men and 1 Woman?

After the uproar over the Forbes list, Maryland Smith experts compile a quick list of their own, with just a few of the women that should make any list of innovators.

Comic Books for Complex Issues

The New York Fed recently decided to explain monetary policy in a comic book, set in outer space. It had us wondering: What other complex business topics would be helpful to see in simplified, comic book fashion?

Will You Friend Facebook's Cryptocurrency?

Who will “friend” the new Facebook cryptocurrency? Maryland Smith experts weigh in, after the social media giant’s announcement that it would launch a new blockchain-based payment service, called Libra.

Why Boeing Needs More Than a Software Fix

Boeing blames software for two recent disasters involving its 737 MAX narrow-body plane, but an information technology expert at Maryland Smith points toward design and marketing flaws instead.

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