10 Business Books for your Summer Reading

The University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business is excited to announce some favorite books in the "13th Annual Top-10 Summer Reading List for Business Leaders" for 2016, as recommended by members of its faculty and administrators.

‘Sharks’ Losing Ground to ‘Prey’ in Markets

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — Since the global financial crisis, “active” fund managers — stock pickers looking to beat the market — have lost ground to their “passive“ counterparts, as investors “shun stock pickers amid concerns over bad performance and high fees,” the Financia

Making Sense of Berkshire’s Bite of Apple

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — Berkshire Hathaway’s small but much-discussed bite of Apple suggests a vote of confidence for a tech giant that had been sliding in the stock market.

Why ‘Family’ CEOs Think Differently

Founder-CEOs and CEOs related to the founder see the world differently than CEOs of non-family firms, and they pursue different strategies, according to new research from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland.

Scholars and Industry Leaders Honor Albert 'Pete' Kyle

Leading academics, bankers and regulators gathered at the Robert H.

Smith Hosts 13th Annual Wikler Finance Case Competition

Smith student Philip Peker ’18 writes about the Joseph Wikler Memorial Finance Case Competition on April 22, 2016, at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business.

The Big Bet Taking Cvent Private

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — Experts from the University of Maryland’s Robert H.

Treasury Targets Corporate Inversions, Drawing Ire of CEOs

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — The Treasury Department continues to tighten its rules to prevent corporate "inversions" — the move in which a U.S. company merges with a smaller foreign company, then shifts its official location abroad to avoid the U.S.

Insights from Buffett's Analysis of 2008 Financial Crisis

SMITH BRAIN TRUST -- Clinical professor of finance David Kass at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business is a Berkshire Hathaway shareholder and a close follower of Warren Buffett’s investment strategy since 1980.

The Negative-Interest Rate Experiment: Mixed Results

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — Central bankers in Japan and the Europe Union are at their wits' end in trying to figure how to generate demand and stave off deflation. Both banks have dropped interest rates into negative territory, encouraging spending by making saving literally costly. Yet the publics of the two economic regions have reacted differently. Each is unhappy for a different reason.

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