Thursday, December 18, 2014, 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, December 20, 2014, 7:30 a.m. Inspiring Innovation: How Companies can Get the Most out of their Employees to Get and Stay Ahead American companies have been known for innovation. But how can they continue to stay innovative and keep ahead?                

Thursday, October 30, 2014, 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, November 2, 2014, 7:30 a.m. Advances in technology have been critical to advances in health care. But it’s crucial that health care workers know how to use the technology for it to be most effective. A new partnership among the Center for Health Information and Decision Systems, the Maryland Health Tech Coalition and Howard Community College will make sure Maryland health employees lead the sector.   

SMITH BRAIN TRUST -- How much confidence should you have in the findings published in the top strategic management journals? Less than you might think, according to new research from the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business. Smith Professor Brent Goldfarb and coauthor Andrew King of Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business estimate that 24 to 40 percent of the findings in five top journals are likely the result of chance.

By Hui Liao SMITH BRAIN TRUST -- High performers understand the adage: “It’s lonely at the top.” New research from the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, which I co-authored with colleagues from four other institutions, confirms that outperforming workplace norms can prompt negative social consequences. But we also found the opposite.

SMITH BRAIN TRUST -- Teams searching for innovation increase their odds of driving the evolution of a  field when they reach out to colleagues—or to research findings—outside their field's area of expertise, a new study from the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business suggests.

Due to inclement weather, the Cybersecurity Forum will start at 10 a.m. Researchers and Senior Executives to Explore Policy-Based Solutions Cyberattacks on companies worldwide increased by 48 percent from 2013 to 2014 as roughly 42.8 million data security breaches cost firms hundreds to potentially millions of dollars (according to this recent study). 

SMITH BRAIN TRUST -- The holiday season is a boom time for the sale of consumer electronics, which means it’s also prime time for retailers to push extended-service contracts onto their customers. The contracts lengthen the terms of manufacturers’ warranties — for a hefty fee. Consider that Best Buy right now is charging $310 to insure a $480 laptop against spills, drops or other damage for three years.

December 21, 2014 Career Coach: How soon is too soon to quit? December 6, 2014

Tata Group acquisitions such as Jaguar Land Rover may have American consumers taking notice of the Indian company as a global force for the first time, but the company has been a subject of an in-depth study on how to transform large corporations by Sunil Mithas, professor of information systems at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business.

Smith Researchers Mine Yelp to Predict Success, Failure of D.C. Venues SMITH BRAIN TRUST -- Using a database of 130,000 Yelp reviews of restaurants in Washington, DC, two professors and a graduate student at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business have identified a method that allows software to “read” the content of those reviews—and predict which restaurants will close.