The Center for Financial Policy held its spring roundtable, “Revitalizing the U.S. Mortgage Market” on May 24, which explored the issues leading to the conservatorship of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The roundtable provided an opportunity for exchange of views on the diagnosis and policy reforms of the government sponsored enterprises (GSEs). The panelists included leading policy and academic experts, and the keynote address was delivered by Mark Zandi, Chief Economist, Moody’s Economy.com

The Center for Social Value Creation (CSVC) at the Robert H. Smith School of Business organized the final presentations for the spring term of this year’s Social Venture Consulting Program on Thursday, May 6.

Per capita, Israel is one of the most prolific places in the world for technology development, and ripe for new business growth. The University of Maryland is embarking on a new partnership with the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology – to harness these technological innovations and create new businesses that will ultimately drive economic development both in Israel and in the state of Maryland.

HANOVER, MD, May 13, 2010 – Contrary to public assertions, IT professionals in the U.S. who are not citizens actually earned more than their American colleagues from 2000-2005 and therefore did not depress the salaries of American citizens, according to the Management Insights feature in the current issue of Management Science, the flagship journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS®).

HANOVER, MD, May 13, 2010 – Contrary to public assertions, IT professionals in the U.S. who are not citizens actually earned more than their American colleagues from 2000-2005 and therefore did not depress the salaries of American citizens, according to the Management Insights feature in the current issue of Management Science, the flagship journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS®).

Each day, Google Maps transfers so much data it is measured in petabytes (that’s a digit with 15 zeros behind it). And that’s just the Maps platform of the Internet giant. With all of this data being transferred through cyberspace, security is a big issue. According to experts the focus should be on securing entire platforms, rather than individual servers with applications, to really secure the flow of data in the cyber supply chain. How to tackle this issue was the topic of discussion at the May 26 CyberMaryland Forum, held at the Robert H. Smith School of Business.

The seventh annual Joseph M. Wikler Finance Case Competition took place on April 16, 2010, at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business. The competition, which is open to juniors and seniors from the BMGT 440 Advanced Financial Management class, began with nine teams selected by the instructors of the Fall 2009 and Spring 2010 sections.

College Park, Md. – April 27, 2010 – The University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) have named the winners of the first Global Challenge, a first-of-its-kind competition that challenged teams of MBA and other graduate students to develop a public-private venture to support development and the tourism industry in Asia.

College Park, Md. – May 25, 2010 – The University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business announced it has received a $1.5 million four-year grant from the U.S. Department of Education to operate its Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER). Funds are awarded in a national competition held every four years and the current grant will fund the center until 2014.

A talented team MBA students from the Robert H. Smith School of Business won the 2010 Rutgers MBA Supply Chain Case Competition held at Rutgers Business School, New Jersey. Vivek Srivastava, Jayraj Ganesh, Chia-Chia Chang, and Srivatsakumar Sarvepalli represented Smith School at the competition. Five other teams representing Rutgers University, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Lehigh University, University of Delaware, and Syracuse University competed for a cash prize of $750.