College Park, Md. – December 7, 2010 – The Center for Financial Policy at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business and the Maryland Bankers Association are partnering to deliver aBank Director Training Program.

Sen. Jack Reed Highlights the Smith School and Pew Financial Reform Project at Reception The University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business and the Pew Charitable Trusts sponsored a public reception Nov. 29, 2010, marking the establishment of the Office of Financial Research (OFR) and the release of the National Science Foundation Workshop Report, Knowledge Representation and Information Management for Financial Risk Management.

Sen. Jack Reed Highlights the Smith School and Pew Financial Reform Project at Reception  The University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business and the Pew Charitable Trusts sponsored a public reception Nov. 29, 2010, marking the establishment of the Office of Financial Research (OFR) and the release of the National Science Foundation Workshop Report, Knowledge Representation and Information Management for Financial Risk Management.

How do you build teams that are highly adaptive and best draw upon the knowledge, skills and abilities of team members in ways that achieve superior performance? Recent research turns traditional notions of leadership on its head. In this edition of Smith Business Close-Up with the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, Professor Paul Tesluk shares how your organization can gain competitive advantage by cultivating shared leadership in your teams.

College Park, Md. – November 15, 2010 – Ritu Agarwal, professor and Dean’s Chair of Information Systems at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, was named editor-in-chief of Information Systems Research. She will assume her role January 1, 2011.

On October 13, 2010, the Center for Leadership, Innovation and Change (CLIC) at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business hosted its College Park launch event with an in-depth presentation by Former Chairman and CEO of BB&T John Allison.

The Center for Financial Policy hosted Art Murton from the FDIC on Monday, November 08, 2010. Art is a veteran of the recent financial crisis as well as the earlier S&L crisis. As the Director of Insurance and Research, Art is directly involved in policy related issues faced by the FDIC. Currently, the FDIC is busy developing rules to implement the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act. Art took time out of his busy schedule to hold an hour-long conversation with faculty and Ph.D. students about the implications of the Dodd-Frank Act for the FDIC.

How do you build teams that are highly adaptive and best draw upon the knowledge, skills and abilities of team members in ways that achieve superior performance? Recent research turns traditional notions of leadership on its head. In this edition of Smith Business Close-Up with the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, Professor Paul Tesluk shares how your organization can gain competitive advantage by cultivating shared leadership in your teams.

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.

The Smith School's academic departments and research-focused centers of excellence combine leading scholars and industry veterans who truly understand the importance of risk management. Smith faculty and practitioners explore issues related to how risk impacts financial decisions, supply chains and the broader global economy.