Dr. David Kass has published articles in corporate finance, industrial organization, and health economics. He currently teaches Advanced Financial Management and Business Finance, and is the Faculty Champion for the Sophomore Wall Street Fellows. Prior to joining the faculty of the Smith School in 2004, he held senior positions with the Federal Government (Federal Trade Commission, General Accounting Office, Department of Defense, and the Bureau of Economic Analysis). Kass has recently appeared on Bloomberg TV, CNBC, PBS Nightly Business Report, Maryland Public Television, Business News Network TV (Canada), American Public Media's Marketplace Radio, and WYPR Radio (Baltimore), and has been quoted on numerous occasions by the Washington Post, Bloomberg News and The Wall Street Journal, where he has primarily discussed Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway.
SMITH BRAIN TRUST – Like the big man in the North Pole, Maryland Smith’s David Kass spends the waning weeks of the year making a list and checking it twice. Kass’ nice list is filled with the stocks he thinks are poised for a happy new year.
SMITH BRAIN TRUST – Getting ready to hit the road or fly off somewhere for Thanksgiving? Maryland Smith faculty share their best travel hacks, from traveling early to the best ways to tolerate traffic, to make your holidays easier.
SMITH BRAIN TRUST – Pharmaceutical prices are poised to become a central issue for the next Congress, potentially forcing lawmakers to consider at least two factors that coincide with America’s higher-than-average drug prices.
The first is the lack of a governmental pharmaceutical price oversight board, similar to the ones that exist in Europe, Canada and the United Kingdom, where pharmaceutical companies typically charge far less for their products.
SMITH BRAIN TRUST – Whatever you thought about the midterm election results this week, you can say this much: The stock market was taking it all in stride, up more than 1 percent across the three major indexes.
The rally reflected a sigh of relief, says Maryland Smith’s David Kass. And it’s likely the start of a three-pronged rally that will continue through the next year.
SMITH BRAIN TRUST – If you follow tech industry news, by now you’ve heard that classic Silicon Valley startup story.
A few men have dropped out of college and are working in a garage when they strike a great idea. With total dedication to delivering on this idea, they launch a successful company. They create the most consumer-friendly personal computer on the market to date. They start Microsoft. They start Apple.
SMITH BRAIN TRUST – It’s not often that a company’s board of directors employs a poison pill to fend off a hostile takeover. Even rarer is when a board of directors employs the tactic to hold a founder and former CEO at bay.
That’s what makes the current drama at Papa John’s so interesting.
SMITH BRAIN TRUST – Bragging rights go to David Kass. The clinical professor of finance at the University of Maryland’s Robert H.
SMITH BRAIN TRUST – Although General Electric had the longest continuous presence of any company on the Dow Jones Industrial Average, its ouster from the index this week after 111 years wasn’t an altogether surprising event, says David Kass, clinical professor of finance at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business.
SMITH BRAIN TRUST – A federal judge’s decision to allow AT&T’s bid for Time Warner to proceed without conditions not only blunts the government’s objections to the $85.4 billion deal, it also may set the stage for a slew of future so-called vertical megamergers.
Since 2006, finance professor David Kass has led students from the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business on an annual trek to Omaha, Nebraska, to partake in the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting. This year he and Smith School finance professor Elinda Kiss tried something different. They hosted more than 100 students, faculty and staff for a “Watch & Learn” event on May 5, 2018, at Van Munching Hall.
