SMITH BRAIN TRUST — U.S corporations are sitting on some $3 trillion in cash, which some commentators view as

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — By using advanced baseball statistics, it's possible to predict the monetary value of baseball players' future contributions — and avoid awarding massive multiyear contracts to players whose best days are behind them, according to new research from the Robert H.

We invite all faculty, program directors, deans, department chairs, alumni, and students to nominate deserving faculty members at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business for the Allen J. Krowe Teaching Award for Teaching Excellence and the Legg Mason Teaching Innovation Award. Nominations must be submitted by March 4, 2016.

By Elinda F. Kiss Although the stock market has already fallen 9 percent in the new year (primarily as a reaction to concerns about China and cheaper oil), we are not headed for another financial crisis that could lead to full-blown economic meltdown, as in 2008. 

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — Several Republican presidential candidates have endorsed — or said they'd consider — putting America back on the gold standard. Sen. Ted Cruz has been the most outspoken, arguing that pegging the dollar to gold would make monetary decisions less arbitrary than the ones currently made by the Fed.

Multinational American companies with significant operations in countries with low corporate taxes take on less debt than companies that face higher taxes, according to a new study from the Robert H. Smith School of Business.

People are sharing their personal information online faster than policymakers can keep pace, a privacy expert said Jan. 13, 2016, at the 12th annual Forum on Financial Information Systems and Cybersecurity. “Current policies are like bringing a knife to a gunfight,” said Alessandro Acquisti, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University. “The way we are doing things now is not the only way it can be done, and certainly not the best way it can be done.”

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — Just when it looked like the smartphone world had been winnowed down to two heavyweights, Apple and Samsung — with the also-rans fighting over the scraps — a Chinese company that's basically unknown in the United States is elbowing its way into the fray.

By DARYL JAMES Time had run out in 1980. An earth capable of sustaining only a limited number of hungry consumers had been pushed too far, and “The Population Bomb” described by conservation biologist Paul Ehrlich would soon explode.

The Center for the Study of Business Ethics, Regulation & Crime (C-BERC) sponsored and hosted a panel discussion on November 17, 2015 on ‘Regulating business compliance: What works, what doesn’t, and why?’ addressing the question of how to best prevent and control corporate misconduct. The topic is controversial with different strategies and approaches generating considerable debate.  One of the most commonly utilized mechanisms, government regulation, ranks among the most contentious.