UMD-Smith Experts Comment on Google Wallet Challenges, Online Sales Tax Bill Implications
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.
UMD-Smith Expert Comments on Apple Income Tax Dodge
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:
OFR Director Visits Campus
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.
A Look at Both Sides of the Issue: Financial Regulatory Reform
Van Munching Hall filled with cameras and lights as C-SPAN prepared for the Robert H. Smith School of Business’ Center for Financial Policy’s (CFP) Congressional Briefing Series. CFP’s Congressional Briefing Series brings current and former Capitol Hill staffers to the Smith School to discuss financial policy and legislation. Students, faculty, and staff gather to hear and participate in what’s happening on the forefront of financial policy.
Smith School Partners with IBM to Host Third Annual Business Analytics Workshop
Internet analytics was the theme of the Third Annual Business Analytics Workshop, held in Van Munching Hall on Friday, April 19, 2013. Co-sponsored by the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business and IBM, the day-long workshop consisted of topics ranging from social media intelligence to mitigating risk in online crowd funding markets and ended with a panel discussion on “How much data is enough?”
Educating the Masses in a “Massive” Way
Henry “Hank” Lucas, Smith School professor of information systems, is taking on a new challenge: educating 10,000 students on surviving disruptive technologies — all at once.
Smith Business Close-Up: Maryland’s Massive Online Open Courses
Thursday, April 4, 2013, 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, April 7, 2013, 7:30 a.m. The digital age has changed education, including making it easier than ever to make content available to the masses through free online courses. These Massive Online Open Courses – MOOCs – are a growing trend in education and University of Maryland is part of the movement.