UMD-Smith Marketing Experts Comment on Holiday Retail Trends, Tactics  COLLEGE PARK, Md. – Nov. 20, 2014 – Post-recession shoppers, some cautious, others shortcutting to bargains, are increasingly “webrooming.” The tactic involves studying prices and products online, then purchasing from brick and mortar stores. 

COLLEGE PARK, Md. - Nov. 17, 2014 - The University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business has appointed Brent Goldfarb as academic director of the school’s Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship. 

Cliff Rossi Book Lays Out ‘Roll-Up the Sleeves Approach’ for Pros, Students He saw the subprime meltdown from the inside of Citi, WaMu and Countrywide. He’s given expert testimony on risk governance on Capitol Hill. Professor of the Practice Cliff Rossi draws upon such experience for his new book, A Risk Professional's Survival Guide: Applied Best Practices in Risk Management (Wiley).

Retailers in Delay-Negotiating Mode Risk Losing Valuable Data Access, UMD Smith Experts Say  COLLEGE PARK, Md. – Oct. 30, 2014 – Mobile commerce and marketing experts in the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business are available to expand on their comments, below, on strategy and implications surrounding Wal-Mart and other retailers not accepting purchases via Apple Pay and other mobile payment apps such as Google Wallet.

Foundation Led by Alumnus Ed Snider Pledges Support for Study of Free Enterprise

Officials are applying social media, such as the CDC Emergency Twitter handle, to disseminate Ebola-related information and using wireless networks to track and predict outbreak patterns and locate individuals exposed to the virus. Companies concurrently are monitoring for threats to their supply chains, such as the Ivory Coast cocoa supply.

Earlier this week, French economist Jean Tirole won the Nobel Prize in economics. The news reverberated throughout the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, especially when Professor Martin Loeb added Tirole to his list of Nobel Laureates who have previously cited his work. Loeb, who teaches accounting and information assurance and is a Deloitte & Touche Faculty Fellow, has a total of 10 Nobel Laureates on that list, including Kenneth Arrow, Eric Maskin and now Tirole.

How can we use technology to advance our health care system? This has been a commonly asked question in the medical community lately and one that a group of leading experts in the field gathered to discuss at the fifth annual Workshop on Health IT and Economics (WHITE) held Oct. 10-11 in Alexandria, VA, presented by the Center for Health Information and Decision Systems (CHIDS) in the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business.

Five Steps to Foster Workplace Initiative Companies can spur proactive workplace behavior when they  take five steps to build an initiative-friendly climate, new research from the Smith School shows. Employees tend to respond and take initiative when their managers lead by example, provide coaching, allow participative decision making, keep team members informed and show concern.