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August 19, 2015
Incoming MBAs Start Fast with Career Coaching

Incoming full-time MBA students at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business didn’t have to wait long to meet employers and learn what kind of talent they want to hire. A panel of corporate recruiters, including four Smith MBA alumni, shared career advice and answered questions during orientation Aug. 10-21, 2015.

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August 19, 2015
The Amazon Controversy: Exploring Workplace Justice

SMITH BRAIN TRUST -- In a much-discussed piece in The New York Times, which drew on interviews with more than 100 people, Amazon comes off as a rough place to work.

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August 14, 2015
Shaming Your Highly Paid CEO

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — Can American companies be embarrassed out of paying their CEOs hundreds of times what the average worker makes? The SEC wants to find out.

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August 14, 2015
High Frequency Trading: Focus on ‘Troll Under Bridge’

SMITH BRAIN TRUST -- High-frequency traders provide a useful service but rig the system when they extract tolls from investors, a professor from the University of Maryla

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August 12, 2015
Timely Wisdom from Smith's 'Doomslayer'

SMITH BRAIN TRUST -- U.S. oil prices fell to a six-year low on Aug. 11, 2015, driven by China’s currency devaluation.

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August 12, 2015
The Renaming — and Reinvention? — of Google

SMITH BRAIN TRUST -- Google set the business world abuzz Monday by announcing a reorganization: Google's founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, will now head a new entity called Alphabe

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August 12, 2015
Beyond the Bet: Recollections of Julian Simon

SMITH BRAIN TRUST -- U.S. oil prices fell to a six-year low on Aug. 11, 2015, and one person not surprised would be Julian L. Simon, an economist at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business who died in 1998.

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August 12, 2015
How to Deal With That Irate Tweeting Customer

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — Twitter can be a brutal world for customer-service wor

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August 12, 2015
Congratulations, Dad! See You in One Year

SMITH BRAIN TRUST -- Software firm Adobe announced this week it will expand

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August 11, 2015
Smith Welcomes New Faculty Members

The University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business is happy to welcome nine new faculty members for the 2015-2016 academic year. New faculty joined the Smith School in August in following areas:

Accounting and Information Assurance

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