“Dreaming with responsibility” and “dreaming in a pragmatic way” are among Gerald Suarez’s descriptors for students processing his forthcoming course, “Create the Future Through Systems Thinking and Design.”

The Accounting and Information Assurance Department at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business is adding tracks for public accounting and taxation to its 8-year-old Master of Science in Business: Accounting program. Both additions are 30-credit hour programs and take effect in fall 2014.

The Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) will hold its fourth-annual Emerging Markets Forum on Friday, April 25, 2014. This year's theme is "Negotiating History, Culture, and Institutions in Emerging Markets." The conference will be held at the Smith School's Washington, DC campus at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center. 

Don't Waste Your Talent--Recognize, Manage and Sell your Intangible Assets Check out Andrew Sherman's TEDx talk and find out how to realize the full power of everything your company knows. Sherman is passionate about helping people drive value from intellectual property and other intangible assets. He is a prominent Washington, D.C., attorney and business author who teaches entrepreneurship, strategy, M&A, and value creation at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business.

Security-assessment firm IOActive recently identified security flaws in 40 mobile banking applications for iPhone and iPad that are used by some of the world's leading financial institutions. 

All faculty, program directors, deans, department chairs, alumni, and students of the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business are invited to nominate deserving Smith School faculty members (i.e., tenured, tenure-track, Tyser Teaching Fellow, lecturer, adjunct, or Ph.D. student) for one of several Krowe Teaching Awards in areas of general excellence. 

Hot Topic Alert   Jan. 29, 2014 Last week’s announcement of the Reserve Bank of India withdrawing pre-2005 notes was initially interpreted in the media as targeting “black money (currency used in transactions where taxes are avoided)" and to prevent counterfeiting. Subsequently, officials have deflected such interpretation and defined the move as a “technical action” to remove from circulation notes that have relatively fewer security features.

Hot Topic Alert: Jan. 29, 2014 Curt Grimm, professor and Charles E. Taff Chair of Economics and Strategy for the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business, is available to expand on his comments, below, about the executive order to raise the minimum wage for federal contractors. Announced by President Obama in his State of the Union address, the increase, $10.10 an hour, from $7.25, affects workers under new federal contracts.

Media Alert: Jan. 28, 2014Attention: Business and marketing reporters and editors  Marketing professor Roland Rust can comment about content and strategy driving this year’s Super Bowl commercials. Contact him at rrust@rhsmith.umd.edu  or 301-405-4300.

Shawn Mankad, assistant professor of business analytics in Smith's Decision, Operations & Information Technologies department has co-developed a formula, “RegRank,” which gauges how effectively federal regulators incorporate public feedback.