Bruce Golden, the France-Merrick Chair in Management Science at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business, has been named as the recipient of the George E. Kimball Medal.

Poets&Quants for Undergrads has selected Professor of Business Law T. Leigh Anenson at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business as a Top 50 Undergraduate Business Professor for 2018. It’s the second annual list (grouped, not ranked) from the digital publication of undergraduate business education news.

Blockchain is no longer hype and is poised to transform virtually every industry, including health care, says Health and Human Services (HHS) official Jose Arrieta. “We’re standardizing data and decentralizing execution. It adds value…It’s a better model.” This keynote message, also explored in a related panel discussion, was part of the Conference on Health IT and Analytics (CHITA) Oct. 19-20, 2018 in Washington, D.C., hosted by the Center for Health Information & Decision Systems (CHIDS) at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business.

Professor T. Leigh Anenson Makes the Case for Equity COLLEGE PARK, Md. (Oct. 18, 2018) — Strict enforcement of the law sometimes rewards dirty-dealing and hypocrisy, which bothered T. Leigh Anenson as a business litigator. Her new book, Judging Equity: The Fusion of Unclean Hands in U.S. Law, explores a safety valve in the legal system designed to correct injustice.

Companies claim to be all kinds of things on their websites. Only the best actually deliver, Great Place To Work executives said on Oct. 16, 2018, at the BB&T Colloquium on Capitalism, Ethics & Leadership in College Park, Md. “In the not-so-great cultures, what’s on the website is not experienced by the people in the company,” Great Place To Work CEO Michael C. Bush said. “In the great cultures, what you see on the website is what people actually experience.”

An organization led by University of Maryland finance professor Lemma W. Senbet helped senior policymakers bring rigor and evidence to economic policymaking in Africa.

Skeptics pushed back in 1998 when marketing professor P.K. Kannan introduced a digital content revenue model at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business. “This is pure science fiction,” one peer reviewer wrote. “This is so futuristic that it doesn’t have any basis in reality.”

Health IT industry experts will present and discuss the latest findings and practices toward making healthcare more patient-centered, effective and cost-efficient, as part of the Conference on Health IT & Analytics, (CHITA) Friday and Saturday, October 19-20, at the Washington Hilton, 1919 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, D.C.

Undergraduate student Aleah Green, class of 2021, broadcast journalism and African American studies major, writes about Minors Orientation Night, held on Sept. 5, 2018, at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business. “Terps Mean Business” is a motto broadcasted all over the Robert H. Smith School of Business. It’s now a phrase that applies not only to those in business majors but also to the fairly new minors program.

Debra Shapiro, Clarice Smith Professor of Management & Organization at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business, is among the top 100 most influential authors in organizational behavior, human resource management, strategy and general management as cited in textbooks.