COLLEGE PARK, Md. - Nov. 17, 2014 - The University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business has appointed Brent Goldfarb as academic director of the school’s Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship. 

College Park, Md. – April 6, 2009 — A business plan has zero value as a fundraising tool according to new research from the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business. Entrepreneurs should be perfecting their business, not spending hours refining how their plan looks on paper, say researchers.

Broadcast Dates: Feb. 5, 2009, 7:30 p.m.; Feb. 8, 2009, 7:30 a.m.; Feb. 9, 2009, 4:30 a.m.   Big news for entrepreneurs: Don’t waste your time on a business plan.

College Park, MD November 8, 2006 New research on the dot-com era from the University of Marylands Robert H. Smith School of Business reveals despite significant losses suffered by investors, nearly 50 percent of 1990s dot-com startups survived at least five years. This success rate is better than or on par with other emerging industries, contradicting the traditional view that the majority of Internet companies landed belly up.

A new paper says management researchers should show more data and use a simple graphical tool.

In the early automobile industry, what separated the greats, like Henry Ford, was quite a bit of luck,

In most cases, when scholars turn to research, what they actually get is the testimony of an author’s interpretation of that evidence – and that’s a big issue, says new research.

Successful entrepreneurs are good storytellers. Sometimes, their stories are more fiction than non-fiction.

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