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Pre-Vacation Checklist: Preparing to Disengage

Before you walk out of the office on vacation, there are some important tasks you must attend to, Maryland Smith professor Cynthia Kay Stevens says.

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How To Take a Better Vacation

Finding more pleasure in your time off boils down to some simple steps, Maryland Smith professor Nicole M. Coomber says.

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Can a Robot Create Better Movie Trailers?

It takes just a few seconds for a movie or series trailer to grab you – or to lose you. New model makes most of each second.

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Is It Time To Worry About the Yield Curve?

The U.S. treasury yield curve has economists and market watchers feeling uneasy and warning that a recession may be on the horizon.

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Three Ways Amazon Is Shaking Up U.S. Healthcare

First it was book selling, and then it was retail of all kinds. Later came cloud storage services, streaming entertainment and online advertising. Now with three big moves, Amazon is disrupting healthcare.

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Called It: How Kass Predicted Kraft Heinz's Interest in Campbell's

Bragging rights go to David Kass. He predicted months ago that Kraft Heinz might look to acquire Campbell’s Soup. 

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Channeling the Chinese Power of Moqi at Work

Western-based managers who feel out of sync with their teams might need a new word in their vocabulary. Maryland Smith professor Hui Liao examines the Chinese construct of moqi.

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Why Harley-Davidson Isn't Alone in Overseas Shift

The fact is, manufacturing overseas isn’t even new for Harley-Davidson. Here's why it does it and what might happen now.

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Stop Putting People to Sleep With Your PowerPoints

If your organization relies on PowerPoint or similar software, it doesn’t mean your presentation is destined to leave your audience bored or surfing their smartphones for a distraction.

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Life After Dow Jones for General Electric

Although General Electric has had the longest continuous presence of any company on the Dow Jones Industrial Average, its ouster from the index this week after 111 years wasn't an altogether surprising event. David Kass explains. 

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What To Know About the Supreme Court's Sales Tax Decision

In a rare move this week, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned its own ruling, with a 5-4 decision that allows states to collect sales tax from out-of-state retailers who sell to their in-state residents.

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Time for a Plastic Revolution?

Images of vast islands of garbage in the oceans and recent revelations that much of the world's recycling isn't being recycled at all have some experts wondering whether society might be heading for a revolution in plastics and packaging.

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