MEDIA ALERT: July 31, 2013Attention: Finance Reporters COLLEGE PARK, Md. - David Kass, Tyser Teaching Fellow in finance at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, comments on Facebook’s price per share rebounding to near its $38 IPO level (from May 2012) after trading as low as $17.55 last September. The Smith School has an in-house facility for live or taped interviews via fiber-optic line for television or multimedia content.

College Park, Md. – November 14, 2012 – World-leading cybersecurity researchers at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business won a significant grant from the Department of Homeland Security to develop economic models for cybersecurity investments. Professors Lawrence Gordon and Martin Loeb – along with colleague William Lucyshyn from the School of Public Policy -- received one of just 34 contracts awarded to 29 academic and research institutions for research and development of solutions to cybersecurity challenges.

Air dates: Thursday, July 11, 2013, 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, July 14, 2013, 7:30 a.m. If you got it, don’t flaunt it. That’s the conclusion Smith School researchers came to when they studied how people display the brands they use. According to the study, people flaunting the brands they use in a conspicuous manner – such as obnoxiously displaying a designer handbag label or wearing Gucci sunglass indoors – is a big turn-off for many consumers.

Air dates: Thursday, June 26, 2013, 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, June 29, 2013, 7:30 a.m. Whistleblowers can play in important role in putting a stop to unethical or illegal behavior within organizations. But how can organizations head off unethical behavior in the first place? Does it only come from the top down?

Air date: Thursday, May 30, 2013, 7:30 p.m. Recently, Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo, landed in the headlines for her telecommuting policy. Or rather, her reversal of the company’s previous liberal telecommuting policy, which has many employees working almost exclusively outside the office. But with stretched resources and growing commute times – particularly in this region – telecommuting is an attractive option for many.

Media Alert May 23, 2013 Experts in the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business are available to separately expand on comments, below, about Google Wallet’s push for more users and implications of a possible brick-and mortar retail upswing from the Marketplace Fairness Act adopted by the U.S. Senate and under consideration in the House of Representatives.

COLLEGE PARK, Md. – May 21, 2013 – The U.S. Senate revelation that Apple has avoided paying income tax signals it’s time to overhaul the U.S. corporate tax code, says Mike Faulkender, associate professor of finance in the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business. The Smith School has an in-house facility for live or taped interviews via fiber-optic line for television or multimedia content. Faulkender (301-405-1064; mfaulken@rhsmith.umd.edu) can expand on these comments:

The head of the federal Office of Financial Research visited the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business on May 14, 2013 to recruit experts to help mitigate a U.S. financial crisis.

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