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Smith Secures $150K for AI Initiative for Capital Market Research

GRF CPAs & Advisors has awarded $150,000 to the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business to seed an AI Initiative for Capital Market Research.

Center for Global Business: Cultivating a Global Perspective Through a Diverse Student Staff

The Center for Global Business (CGB) at the University of Maryland’s Robert H.

Smith Research

Mega Firms are Big Innovators

Some of the country’s biggest companies are also its biggest innovators, finds a new working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research that examines U.S. patent data, co-authored by professor Serguey Braguinsky of the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business.

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How a Repatriation-Tax Challenge Before SCOTUS Could Upend the Tax Code

In 2005, Kathleen and Charles Moore invested $40k in exchange for 11 percent of equity in India-based, ag-equipment company KisanKraft. The Washington state couple received no income from its shares over the following decade, as the company operationally reinvested its profits. Nonetheless, in 2018 the U.S. government handed the Moores a $14,729 tax bill on the profits earned by the foreign entity. Reluctantly they paid but subsequently sued, questioning the constitutionality of taxing unrealized income without apportionment among the states.

Top Organizations Tap MBA Students for Consulting

This past summer, students in Smith’s Fl

Alumni

Alumna Boldly Leads Successful Salesforce Consulting Firm

During an early job interview with Accenture, Pallavi Agarwal ’05, asked how long it would take to become a partner. Never afraid to ask bold questions, Agarwal used her determination to map her successful business career. Today, she is the CEO and founder of Kander, an award-winning woman- and minority-founded Salesforce global consulting firm based in Washington, D.C.

Smith Ramping up Company Engagement with MSIS Students

The University of Maryland’s Robert H.

Center for Global Business Events Open Doors to International Business Careers

Having a ‘global’ career doesn’t have to mean moving abroad, and the Careers Crossing Borders eve

Becoming Smith

Robert H. Smith ’50 was in his office in Crystal City, Va. when he got that first call from the dean of the University of Maryland’s business school, 40 years after he graduated.

Alumni

Supporting Smith Students By Paying it Forward

Albert P. Carey ’74, a long-time executive at PepsiCo, knew he wanted to give back when he committed $1 million to the Maryland Promise program. He currently supports 13 Smith School Maryland Promise scholars through the Albert P. and Victoria V. Carey Maryland Promise Scholarship.

Alumni

Alum Forges a New Future for Trinidad and Tobago Through Finance

As Trinidad and Tobago’s Minister in the Ministry of Finance, Brian Manning, Master of Finance ’18, is investing in the future of his country. And to do that, he’s leveraging his experiences from the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business.

Smith School Students Start Semester and Launch Careers at 2023 Career Events

Palpable optimism and endless opportunity filled the halls of the College Park Marriott Conferenc
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