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A year of planning and hard work culminated in a hugely successful national conference Nov. 2-3, attracting more than 1,400 women MBA students, executives and corporate recruiters to the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business.

Research by Wolfgang Jank and Galit Shmueli

Remember what it was like to buy a plane ticket in the old days? You told the travel agent where you were going, when you wanted to leave and when you wanted to come home, and the agent told you how much your ticket would cost. Period.

In a study conducted for the INFORMS Society for Marketing, an article by Roland Rust, David Bruce Smith Chair in Marketing, executive director of the Center for E

The Smith School is pleased to welcome the following new faculty for the 2007-2008 academic year.

The Smith School has teamed up with ExecutiveBiz to present "The New New Internet: Web 2.0 for Business" on Thursday, Nov. 1, at the Hyatt Regency in Reston, Va. More than 450 attended the event last year, and 800 attendees are expected to gather this year for the top conference on the east coast focused on Web 2.0.

Research by Rebecca Hamilton

Direct experiences with products helps customers choose the products with which they will be most satisfied in the long run.

The Smith School PhD program, which was ranked #26 globally and #17 in the U.S. the Financial Times in 2006, is producing scholars who go on to teach at top-ranked institutions around the world.

On Aug. 31, 2007, Jeremy Rifkin, the founder and president of The Foundation on Economic Trends, spoke to Smith MBA students in Howard Frank Auditorium about the forthcoming economic revolution in hydrogen fuel cell technology. Rifkin has authored 17 best-selling books on the impact of scientific, technological and cultural changes on the economy, society and the environment.