SMITH BRAIN TRUST — Rio de Janeiro’s acting governor Francisco Dornelles recently warned that the Rio Olympic Games are headed to a “big failure.” He also called his state’s health care system “c

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — BroadwayHD made history on June 30, 2016, with livesteaming of "She Loves Me," a musical production at Studio 54 in New York. Other companies have done similar things for years.

The American Marketing Association (AMA) has selected Michel Wedel, PepsiCo Professor of Consumer Science at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, for its Charles Coolidge Parlin Marketing Research Award.

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — Britons spoke up about more than their country’s economic independence when they voted on June 23 to exit the European Union.

The 25th Annual Frontiers in Service Conference was held June 23-26, 2016, in beautiful Bergen, Norway, the gateway to the fjords of Norway and the birthplace for the world-renowned composer Edvard Grieg. Founded by Roland Rust, the Frontiers Conference is sponsored annually by the Smith School's Center for Excellence in Service, INFORMS, and the AMA SERVSIG. This year, the host institution was the Norwegian School of Economics.

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — The Federal Aviation Administration’s initial, comprehensive set of rules for commercial drones will open the floodgates to tens of thousands of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in U.S. airspace.

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — In a move Inc. calls a “Wall Street magic trick,” Facebook’s annual shareholders meeting on Monday yielded passage of a measure to issue 5.7 million shares of a nonvoting C Class stock.

Smith Brain Trust — Electric car maker Tesla Motors describes its bid to acquire full-service solar power systems provider SolarCity as a move destined to create the “world’s only vertically integrated energy company offering end-to-end clean energy products to our customers.”  But management professor Br

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — School ends Monday for children in Prince George’s County. Summer vacation already has started for students in other parts of the country, which means that families looking to relocate between academic years need to switch into high gear.

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — The European Commission last week released details of its ongoing investigation of a Luxembourg-McDonald’s “sweetheart” tax deal and shined new light on “Europe’s new tax raid.” Regulators are focusing, in part, on Luxembourg as a tax haven. Previously, U.S.