The University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business is excited to announce some favorite books in the 14th Annual Top-10 Summer Reading List for Business Leaders for 2017, as recommended by faculty members. (1) The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed Our Minds By Michael Lewis (2016)

HOOKED ON FRAUD: ANNUAL CONFERENCE SPEAKERS RECALL THE CASES THAT SPARKED THEIR CAREERS IN FRAUD INVESTIGATION Jennifer Liebman  Research Editor, Association of Certified Fraud Examiners

In October 2016, C-BERC’s Associate Director Gideon Mark, associate professor of logistics, business and public policy at the University of Maryland’s Robert H.

Two board members at the University of Maryland’s Center for the Study of Business Ethics, Regulation and Crime (C-BERC) were profiled in the Women Leading Research initiative at the Robert H. Smith School of Business. Congratulations to Christine Beckman for her work on risks and rewards for multidisciplinary work and Leigh Anenson for her work on ways to save government pensions. 

In Dec. 2016, Gideon Mark, associate director of the Center for the Study of Business Ethics, Regulation and Crime (C-BERC), met with the University of Maryland Undergraduate Studies Faculty Fellows to discuss the relevance of business ethics to academic integrity issues at their weekly meeting. The discussion focused on (1) deterrence of misconduct in the business environment and deterrence of academic misconduct and (2) the university's academic integrity process.

Dec. 8-10, 2016, Sally Simpson, director of the Center for the Study of Business Ethics, Regulation and Crime (C-BERC) and professor of criminology and criminal justice at the University of Maryland, presented at the Max-Weber-Institute of Sociology in Heidelburg, Germany on "Application of Factorial Surveys in the Area of Corporate Crime Research".

Professors at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business placed No. 1 in the world for "faculty quality" in The Economist's 2016 full-time MBA rankings, marking the third consecutive year atop the category. Prior to the current run, the school finished No. 2 for faculty quality in 2013. Overall, the Smith School finished No. 47 globally and No. 32 in the United States in the latest rankings, released Oct. 13.

By Samuel Handwerger 

The number of out-of-court deals in federal charges of corporate crimes has soared to record-setting highs, where major companies pay large fines for criminal wrongdoing but no one goes to jail. Brandon Garrett, the Justice Thurgood Marshall Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, delved into the complex deals that take place between the U.S.

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — A recent tax court overruling of the Internal Revenue Service marks “a big win for all MBA students” — according to a Wall Street Journal source in a report further stating that the case "shoul