IRS Bitcoin Move will Diminish Value in Related Illegal-Illicit Transacting: UMD-Smith Expert
Hot Topic Alert: March 26, 2014 Attention: Economic and financial reporters and editors
Roland Rust in NYT on GM Social Media Strategy
Smith Marketing professor Roland Rust, commenting in The New York Times this week, said General Motors' social media strategy in response to its timing and handling of an ignition switch recall is “absolutely the right thing to do.”
CIBER Awards $8K to PhD Candidates
The Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) has awarded two PhD candidates at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business $4,000 each to support international business-related research focused on Chile and China.
GM Probe: David Kass Comments on Declining Shares, Berkshire Stake
Hot Topic Alert: March 14, 2014Attention: Finance reporters and editors Responding to the reported U.S. attorney's office criminal probe into General Motors’ timing and handling of an ignition switch recall, David Kass, Tyser Teaching Fellow in finance in the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business says:
GM Recall Probe Spells ‘Brand Suicide’ in Social Media Age: UMD Marketing Expert
Hot Topic Alert: March 13, 2014Attention: Business and marketing reporters and editors
Smith Marketing Professor Co-Authors ‘Social Media Intelligence’
Marketers may feel as though they are drowning in data and metrics when monitoring social media with its complexity of platforms and opinions.
Smith Marketing Faculty Among Leaders in Producing ‘Most Impactful’ Research
A number of studies published by marketing faculty at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business rank as “most impactful on marketing practice,” according to a study forthcoming in the International Journal of Research in Marketing (IJRM). The rankings, in an article titled “From academic research to marketing practice: Exploring the marketing science value chain,” are determined by the opinions of marketing managers and cover publications dating back to 1982.
Using the Power of Social Media to Enhance Product Innovation
S. Raghu Raghavan, a Smith professor of management science and operations management, has developed a framework for companies to track and incorporate social media influence into product innovation – resulting in better products that more effectively meet the needs of consumers. Read more about this research at UMD Right Now.
Online Physician Reviews Draw Renewed Attention, Smith Experts Comment
Healthday News reports on recent data showing Americans increasingly are using online physician reviews and asks “whether it’s a good thing” that people “are choosing their doctor the same way they settle on a car or TV.”
Smith PhD Program Ranked 11th in World
The PhD program at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, College Park, is No. 11 in the world and No. 8 in the U.S., according to new rankings by The Financial Times. The rankings are based off data collected in 2013 and can be found in the fields of the Global MBA Ranking on the Financial Times business education website.