Maryland Smith CHIDS, C-BERC Receive NIJ Grant To Explore Physician Fraud Roots
Physician Fraud Is a Big Problem. Big Data May Have Big Solutions. Healthcare is big business in the United States, accounting for roughly 20% of its overall GDP. And big businesses inevitably become vulnerable to fraud in a big way.
Peter Reuter Receives 2019 Stockholm Prize in Criminology
On June 11, 2019, UMD School of Public Policy Professor Peter Reuter, who is on the faculty advisory board for the Smith School's Center for the Study of Business Ethics, Regulation, & Crime (C-BERC), was awarded the 2019 Stockholm Prize in criminology along with former Swiss President Ruth Dreifuss for their breakthroughs in evidence and policy development on drug abuse.
Three Things Frank Would Change in Dodd-Frank
If former lawmaker Barney Frank could go back in time and redo his response to the 2008 financial meltdown, he would start by closing a loophole that allows mortgage lenders to continue at least one dangerous practice from the pre-crisis era.
Leigh Anenson a Poets&Quants Top Undergraduate Business Professor
Poets&Quants for Undergrads has selected Professor of Business Law T. Leigh Anenson at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business as a Top 50 Undergraduate Business Professor for 2018. It’s the second annual list (grouped, not ranked) from the digital publication of undergraduate business education news.
Fishlinger Family Lecture Series Features Discussion on Business Ethics with Jeff Sonnenfeld
More than 100 students, faculty, staff, and alumni attended the 2018 Fishlinger Family Lecture Series on Feb. 7, 2018, with featured speaker Jeff Sonnenfeld, senior associate dean of leadership programs and the Lester Crown Professor in the Practice of Management at the Yale School of Management. His lecture was titled The Hero's Farewell: Courage, Character and Business Ethics in the Trump Era and was held in the Edward St. John Building at the University of Maryland.
Fishlinger Family Lecture Series Features Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Feb. 7
The University of Maryland invites students, alumni, faculty, staff, and friends to join us on Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2018, for the Fishlinger Family Lecture Series with Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, senior associate dean of leadership programs and the Lester Crown Professor in the Practice of Management at the Yale School of Management. His talk is titled The Hero's Farewell: Courage, Character, and Business Ethics in the Trump Era. The lecture will begin at 1:30 p.m. in the Edward St. John Building, Room 1224, and will conclude with a 20-minute Q&A period.
Applications Open for C-BERC Fellows Program 2018
Undergraduate and graduate students are invited to apply for fellowships in the Center for the Study of Business Ethics, Regulation & Crime (C-BERC). The fellowships include a $500 annual stipend. All students interested in corporate crime, compliance, financial regulation, forensic accounting, business ethics are encouraged to learn more and to apply. Apply Today Applications are due by Dec. 15, 2017. To apply, send the following materials to cberc@rhsmith.umd.edu:
CBERC's Simpson Serves as Interim Chair of Criminology
The University of Maryland's College of Behavioral and Social Sciences and the Department of Criminology are grateful for the continued leadership of Professor Sally Simpson, who recently took the helm of the department as interim chair. Simpson will also continue to serve as director of the Center for the Study of Business Ethics, Regulation & Crime (C-BERC), an active unit within BSOS, CCJS and the Robert H. Smith School of Business. Full story.
Jim Staihar Named First Fishlinger Family Endowed Scholar
The Center for the Study of Business Ethics, Regulation and Crime (C-BERC) at the University of Maryland is pleased to announce that Jim Staihar, associate director of C-BERC and assistant professor of accounting and information assurance, will become the first Fishlinger Family Endowed Scholar (2017-18), a program dedicated to support and enhance C-BERC