The Center for Financial Policy at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business partnered with the Salomon Center for the Study of Financial Institutions at the NYU Stern School of Business for a daylong conference on “The GSEs, Housing & the Economy” on January 24, 2011, in Washington, D.C. The conference brought together leading academic experts and policymakers to address issues facing government sponsored enterprises (GSEs) and effects on the housing industry and the macro economy. Keynote speakers were Rep.

Thursday, Feb. 24, 2010, 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, Feb. 27, 2010, 7:30 a.m. Leadership Lessons from the Battlefield to the Boardroom     As one of the most well-documented and studied battles in American history, the Battle of Gettysburg offers a rich set of characters, personalities, and examples of leadership decision-making that resonate in many organizations even today.

Ted Leonsis, Chairman and Majority HolderWashington Capitals, Washington Mystics and Lincoln Holdings, LLCWednesday, Feb. 16, 2011 at 6 p.m.1524 Van Munching HallUniversity of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742

With the New Year under way, its a great time to resolve to get your portfolio in shape. Students at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business have been closely following the markets as they manage the $2 million Mayer Fund and the Lemma Senbet Fund, run by select groups of MBA and undergraduate students. The students are on pace to meet their goals to achieve healthy returns for the funds and outpace the S&P 500 index.

  Dick Cass, President of the Baltimore Ravens, has one of the most difficult jobs in football: running the organization. At the CEO@Smith event on Tuesday, Nov. 30, Cass spoke to more than 300 eager Smith School students and friends about the issues he deals with on any given Monday.

Will 2011 be the year to take the plunge and start a business? Asher Epstein, managing director of the Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business is optimistic. He says entrepreneurs with good ideas should go for it – but proceed with caution. Epstein’s take for entrepreneurs in 2011:

Dick Cass, President of the Baltimore Ravens, has one of the most difficult jobs in football: running the organization. At the CEO @ Smith event on Tuesday, Nov. 30, Cass spoke to more than 300 eager Smith School students and friends about the issues he deals with on any given Monday.

Jim Parker, former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and chairman of the board of Southwest Airlines, is no stranger to the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business – but now he’s officially joined as an executive-in-residence at the school’s just-launched Center for Leadership, Innovation and Change (CLIC). On Dec. 9, 2010, Baltimore-area business leaders came to the University of Maryland BioPark to celebrate the launch of CLIC and to hear Parker’s address on “Leadership in Challenging Times.”

Tulkoff Food Products Inc. has been a Baltimore business since the 1930s and is particularly famous for its horseradish products. But processing two million pounds of raw horseradish each year has produced a big problem for the company. The process used to clean the roots generates 100,000 pounds of horseradish peels and 2.2 million gallons of dirty water annually. It costs the company $100,000 to send almost 250,000 pounds of discarded peels, dirt and sludge waste to a landfill each year. Tulkoff wanted to better align this process with its environmental initiatives.

The University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business hosted the world’s most dynamic researchers in finance and accounting for the 21st Annual Conference on Financial Economics & Accounting (CFEA), Nov. 12-13, 2010, in College Park, Md. The event was held in conjunction with the 2010 Maryland Finance Symposium. Myron Scholes, winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize for Economics for his Black-Scholes theory and Frank E. Buck Professor of Finance, Emeritus, at Stanford University, gave the keynote address.