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May 19, 2016
Saudi Arabia to Partly Privatize World's Biggest Oil Company

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — Saudi Arabia has announced a plan to spin off about 5 percent of its state-owned oil company, Saudi Aramco — which, at $2 trillion (some estimates are even higher)

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May 19, 2016
Mark Wellman Receives CIBER Award for Teaching Innovation in Global Learning

The Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business is pleased to announce that Mark Wellman, clinical professor of management and organization, is the recipient of the inaugural CIBER Award for Teaching Innovation in Global Learning.

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May 19, 2016
Walmart Counters Amazon With Its Own 'Prime' Service

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — Amazon may be synonymous with online shopping and fast shipping, but Walmart isn't ceding the e-commerce field to its hipper rival. Walmart a

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May 19, 2016
Smith Honors MBAs at Awards Banquet

The University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business celebrated the accomplishments of full-time MBA students at the annual MBA End-of-Year Banquet on May 12, 2016, at the College Park Marriott Hotel and Conference Center. Students nominate their classmates and professors for the awards and a committee of students, faculty and administrators selects the recipients.

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May 18, 2016
Smith Shakes Study Break

The afternoon of Thursday, May 12, 2016, Van Munching Hall was buzzing with the sound of blenders as the Undergrad Program Board at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business provided approximately 200 students with milk shakes and smoothies as a finals study break dubbed “Smith Shakes.”

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May 18, 2016
Smith Seniors Cruise the Potomac

Smith student Philip Peker ’18 writes about the fourth annual “Spirit of Smith Senior Cruise,” hosted by the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, May 7, 2016.

On Saturday, May 7, Smith seniors were whisked away on the “Spirit of Smith Senior Cruise” as a way to culminate the undergraduate student experience at Smith.

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May 17, 2016
Making Sense of Berkshire’s Bite of Apple

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — Berkshire Hathaway’s small but much-discussed bite of Apple suggests a vote of confidence for a tech giant that had been sliding in the stock market.

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May 17, 2016
Undergraduate Senior Awards Dinner

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May 17, 2016
Hunting Iceland's Banking Monster in Panama

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — A team of Icelandic researchers went looking for answers after the 2008 financial crisis and found a "cross-ownership monster" lurking in the country'

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May 17, 2016
Smith Entrepreneurship Research Conference Uncovers Whether Accelerators Really Accelerate

In late April, the Robert H. Smith School of Business hosted the Smith Entrepreneurship Research Conference (SERC), an annual conference designed to highlight important entrepreneurship-focused research papers.

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