Representing the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, strategy experts Anil K. Gupta and Haiyan Wang are 28th in the 2017 Thinkers50 ranking of the “world’s most influential living management thinkers.”

The Robert H. Smith School of Business co-hosted the 2017 Global Business School Network (GBSN) Annual Conference in Washington, D.C., November 1-3. The conference kicked off with a members’ meeting featuring 60 business school leaders from 42 different schools and 27 countries in Van Munching Hall. American University’s Kogod School of Business and George Washington University’s School of Business also hosted the conference.

The Center for Health Information and Decision Systems (CHIDS) at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business will collaborate with Inovalon to expand applications of machine learning and neural network solutions within the predictive analytic components of the Inovalon ONE™ Platform.

In spring 2017, dozens of Finance Fellows tackled a case entitled “INFINITI HR – Target or Acquirer?” for their annual Emerging CFOs Case Competition held at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business. A couple of weeks ago, the authors of the case, Karen Hallows and Susan White, who both teach in the finance department, presented the same case at an international conference and were awarded the prestigious Jonathan Welch Award for the best finance, accounting or economics case.

“We look at our company, BizSolutions 360 Inc., as a win-win for creating jobs in the U.S. and Africa.” – Peter Karenge, President and Architect

Researchers, policymakers and healthcare professionals will converge at the Conference on Health IT and Analytics (CHITA) this week in Washington, D.C., hosted by the Center for Health Information & Decision Systems at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business.

The Maryland Department of Commerce launched the Maryland Defense Diversification Assistance Program (MDDA) on Oct. 20, 2017, to help defense-dependent companies in Maryland enter new commercial markets in the United States and abroad. The Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland (UMD) will support the program by offering business leadership and export training through its Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER).

Upward mobility for the masses starts with enterprising individuals who know how to harness the human potential within market systems, Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Rajshree Agarwal said on Oct. 19, 2017, at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business.

The Better Business Bureau is advising small business owners to consider using the Gordon-Loeb Model to mitigate cyberattacks.

Roland Rust, Distinguished University Professor and David Bruce Smith Chair in Marketing, addressed “Artificial Intelligence in Service” as a keynote speaker for the European Marketing Academy's 8th Regional Conference, Sept. 20-22, 2017, in Timisoara, Romania. Rust, a fellow of the academy, was the leadoff speaker for the conference, themed “Bridging the Marketing Theory/Practice Gap and Competitiveness of the New Europe.”