Thursday, June 11, 2009, 7:30 p.m.Sunday, June 14, 2009, 7:30 a.m.Monday, June 15, 2009, 4:30 a.m. Life is full of decisions – sometimes tough ones– but those decisions can be made easier for informed consumers and savvy marketers.

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Broadcast Dates: Thursday, May 14, 2009, 7:30 p.m.Sunday, May 17, 2009, 7:30 a.m. Monday, May 18, 2009, 4:30 a.m. Economic woes have 73 percent of consumers cutting back on household expenditures, according to the Consumer Technology Pulse recently released by the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business and research firm Rockbridge Associates Inc.

College Park, Md. – April 6, 2009 — A business plan has zero value as a fundraising tool according to new research from the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business. Entrepreneurs should be perfecting their business, not spending hours refining how their plan looks on paper, say researchers.

College Park, Md. – March 18, 2009 – Keep large bills in your wallet if you want to spend less cash, according to new research from the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business. Researchers find people are more likely to think twice about making a purchase when they carry one large denomination of cash rather than many smaller denominations equal to the same amount of money — for example, you’re more likely to hang onto a $20 bill than 20 one-dollar bills.

Herndon, VA – March 12, 2009 – Network Solutions® and the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business announced today the launch of the Small Business Success Index©, an ongoing measurement of the overall health of U.S. small businesses based on a telephone survey of 1,000 small business owners.

Saturday, April 18, 2009 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Universities at Shady Grove The Collegiate Entrepreneurs' Organization (CEO) at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland will host the third annual community-wide entrepreneurship event, Small Business, BIG IDEAS: Innovation in a New Direction.

Doron Avramov, associate professor of finance, received a Q-group award for his paper, “Credit Ratings and the Cross Section of Stock Returns.” Hui Lao, associate professor of management and organization, received the 2009 Distinguished Early Career Contributions Award from the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) in recognition of her research.

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