Anil Gupta, the Smith School’s Michael Dingman Chair in Global Strategy and Entrepreneurship, will answer questions in “Adapt or Invent: Innovating in an Emerging Market," a webinar presented live by The Economist from 11-11:45 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 4. Gupta will discuss dilemmas firms face when tweaking their products or rethinking their business model for emerging markets. The conversation, moderated from the London Stock Exchange by editor Paul Lewis, is part of the Economist’s Emerging Markets Webinar Series.

Marketing experts in the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business are available to comment on trends shaping the 2012 holiday shopping season. The Smith School has an in-house facility for live or taped interviews via fiber-optic line for television or multimedia content. Janet Wagner:  Insight for Savvy Shopping

Media Alert: November 16, 2012 Marketing experts in the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business are available to comment on trends shaping the 2012 holiday shopping season. The Smith School has an in-house facility for live or taped interviews via fiber-optic line for television or multimedia content.

Thursday, November 15, 2012, 7:30 p.m. & Sunday, November 18, 2012, 7:30 a.m. Organizations are often in a race to increase productivity – a good thing in the business world. But too much service productivity can actually cut into a company’s revenue, according to new research from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. In this edition of Smith Business Close-Up, the Smith School’s Roland Rust talks about his new research that finds lower productivity can often lead to a better bottom line.

College Park, Md. – November 14, 2012 – World-leading cybersecurity researchers at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business won a significant grant from the Department of Homeland Security to develop economic models for cybersecurity investments. Professors Lawrence Gordon and Martin Loeb – along with colleague William Lucyshyn from the School of Public Policy -- received one of just 34 contracts awarded to 29 academic and research institutions for research and development of solutions to cybersecurity challenges.

Ritu Agarwal, founder and director of the Center for Health Information and Decision Systems and professor and the Dean’s Chair of Information Systems, will discuss her recent study, “The Benefits of Combining Data with Empathy,” in an e-chat hosted by All Analytics, an online community for information management, business intelligence and analytics.

Thursday, November 15, 2012, 7:30 p.m. & Sunday, November 18, 2012, 7:30 a.m.

Ritu Agarwal, founder and director of the Center for Health Information and Decision Systems and professor and the Dean’s Chair of Information Systems, will discuss her recent study, “The Benefits of Combining Data with Empathy,” in an e-chat hosted by All Analytics, an online community for information management, business intelligence and analytics. Follow the conversation, starting 3 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 14.

Media Alert: November 5, 2012 Experts in the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business are available through election night to comment on topics related to closing campaign activity and the outcome of the presidential election. Financial-Economic Policy Implications

Thursday, November 1, 2012, 7:30 p.m. & Sunday, November 4, 2012, 7:30 a.m. In this edition of Smith Business Close-Up with the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School ofBusiness, Nick Seybert talks about his new research that looks at the size of CEO’s signatures on annualSEC filings to measure narcissism and how that relates to firm performance.