SMITH BRAIN TRUST — William Longbrake is Executive in Residence at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, and senior policy advisor at the school’s Center for Financial Policy. Q: What is the likelihood that the Fed will raise rates in September? If it does raise rates, by how much will it do so?

Veteran Educator to Focus on Transforming the Student Experience COLLEGE PARK, Md. (Aug. 25, 2015) — As part of an ongoing commitment to transform learning, the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business has appointed one of its most accomplished educators to fill a new position focused on the student experience. Professor Joyce E.A. Russell, who served as vice dean prior to the appointment, has assumed responsibilities as Senior Associate Dean of Learning.

SMITH BRAIN TRUST -- This week’s market selloff has made a lot of people itchy to trade stocks. They want to sell before things get worse or, alternatively, maybe pick up some bargains. David Kass, professor of the practice at the University of Maryland’s Robert H.

SMITH BRAIN TRUST -- Toshiba is known for producing televisions, computers — and, as of this summer, an epic accounting scandal. Its CEO resigned in July after an outside investigator documented that the 140-plus-year-old Japanese company had overstated earnings by $1.2 billion since 2008.

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — Can American companies be embarrassed out of paying their CEOs hundreds of times what the average worker makes? The SEC wants to find out.

SMITH BRAIN TRUST -- High-frequency traders provide a useful service but rig the system when they extract tolls from investors, a professor from the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business said this week during a financial regulation conference in Australia.

SMITH BRAIN TRUST -- Google set the business world abuzz Monday by announcing a reorganization: Google's founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, will now head a new entity called Alphabet, a holding company whose holdings include — Google.

The University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business is happy to welcome nine new faculty members for the 2015-2016 academic year. New faculty joined the Smith School in August in following areas: Accounting and Information Assurance

Professor Debra Shapiro from the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business started a one-year term as president of the Academy of Management during the professional association’s annual meeting Aug. 7-11, 2015, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Worldwide membership includes about 20,000 academics, PhD students and business leaders from 118 countries.

An author from the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business was showcased recently at the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in Mumbai for his book on Tata Group’s iconic transformation. The event for invited reporters included Tata Group senior executives. Penguin India has published the work by Sunil Mithas, Smith School professor of information systems, as “Making the Elephant Dance: The Tata Way to Innovate, Transform and Globalize.”