SMITH BRAIN TRUST -- Despite its recent stock market volatility, slow growth and ranking 28th in global competitiveness, China remains the world’s second-largest economy. The country’s leaders are now keen to see China close in on Silicon Valley in terms of creating world-beating tech firms.

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — Yahoo announced on Wednesday that it was reversing course on a plan to spin off its stake in the Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba — shares worth more than $30 billion.

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — The price of crude oil dipped below $40 for the first time since 2009 this week — a sign of the relentless pressure on oil companies caused by high global output.

SMITH BRAIN TRUST -- Responding to pressure from shareholders, Yahoo has dropped a plan to spin off its holdings in Alibaba, a Chinese e-commerce company.

The U.S. patent system was set up to reward and encourage innovation. But there are lots of challenges. Exponential growth in patent applications have patent examiners overwhelmed, and patent disputes clog the court system with litigation from corporations and other patent holders. In this edition of Smith Business Close-Up, host Jeff Salkin visits the Smith School to sit down with professor Joseph Bailey, a 2014 Thomas Alva Edison Visiting Scholar with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

SMITH BRAIN TRUST -- The ADP National Employment Report shows a private-sector increase of 217,000 jobs in November 2015, indicating a pace “twice that needed to absorb growth in the working age population” and signals the “economy is fast app

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — After the terrorist attacks in Paris, the Obama administration pressed major tech companies for

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — Founder-CEOs and CEOs related to the founder see the world differently than CEOs of non-family firms, and they pursue different strategies, according to new research from the Robert H.

​Alan Siegfried, assistant academic director of the MS Accounting Internal Auditing Track and adjunct lecturer at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business, is  being honored for his contributions to the internal auditing profession by the Northern Virginia and Washington, D.C., chapters of the Institute of Internal Auditors.

With double-digit annual GDP growth and the world's largest population, China until recently looked like the long-term answer for U.S. companies seeking never-ending growth. With its slowdown and concurrent stock-market turmoil, China is posing fresh challenges, says Anil Gupta, the Michael D.