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Nov. 12, 2013 - Update: Anil K. Gupta has been named to Thinkers50 – widely recognized as the world’s first, and definitive, ranking of the top 50 business thinkers. Full Story.

The Eyes Have It It’s not often that a lecture on advertising effectiveness begins with a primer on biology. But for Michel Wedel, Pepsico Professor of Consumer Science, learning about how customers respond to ads begins with learning how a customer actually sees.

Professors at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business -- Sean Barnes, assistant professor of operations management,  and Bruce Golden, The France-Merrick Chair in Management Science -- have developed a framework to help prevent costly and deadly infections acquired by hospitalized patients.

GAITHERSBURG, MD (October 22, 2013) – CNSI, of Gaithersburg, Md., and the University of Maryland’s Center for Health Information and Decision Systems (CHIDS) at the Robert H.

COLLEGE PARK, Md. - Amna Kirmani, professor of marketing for the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, has been elected to serve as president the Association of Consumer Research, effective Jan. 1, 2014. Kirmani, director of Smith’s PhD Programs, will guide the 1,700-member association and its mission to advance consumer research and facilitate the exchange of scholarly information among members of academia, industry and government worldwide.

Curt Grimm, professor and Charles E. Taff Chair of Economics and Strategy for the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business, warns of potential court system chaos among other implications from Congress failing to raise the U.S. debt ceiling. He further explains how the 2008 subprime financial meltdown has set the stage for the current political standoff in Washington, and he suggests how policy leaders can steer the U.S.

Drawing Smith to Pedagogy’s Cutting Edge Educause Taps Hank Lucas’ Insight to MOOCs, Learning Technology The University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business is in an international spotlight for course delivery technology, thanks in part to media attention to Professor of Information Systems Hank Lucas’ pioneering work in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs).

Media Alert: Oct. 2, 2013Attention:  Financial, economic reporters and editors COLLEGE PARK, Md. - Financial and economic experts in the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business are available to expand on their comments, below, about implications of the federal government shutdown and debt ceiling debate. 

COLLEGE PARK, Md. - While attention focuses on the October 1 launch of a nationwide "health insurance marketplace,"  the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business has provided expertise behind the scenes of this Affordable Care Act milestone.