SMITH BRAIN TRUST — The risk landscape for banks has changed since last year. For starters, Congress and the Trump Administration have started discussions on a regulatory overhaul. And, meanwhile, interest rates are on the rise, and the Federal Reserve is shifting its focus toward maintaining economic gains made in the past few years. 

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — After nearly one year of legal and political wrangling, oil starting flowing this week through the Dakota Access Pipeline without much fuss. “There’s nothing to talk about anymore because the pipeline is invisible,” says professor Charles E. Olson at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business. “It will just run silently underground with much more efficiency than a train does. We won’t see it.

The Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) has named as an Honorary Doctor Roland Rust, Distinguished University Professor and David Bruce Smith Chair in Marketing at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business.

SMITH BRAIN TRUST – Health insurance – not the U.S. tax code – is "crippling our business around the world," Warren Buffett said during Berkshire Hathaway’s annual shareholder meeting on May 6, 2017, in Omaha.

SMITH BRAIN TRUST – Leave it to a period of calm to inject nervousness into the market, as it did this week when the Chicago Board Options Exchange's Volatility Index, or VIX as it is known, dropped to a level not seen in about 23 years. The drift lower in the so-called fear index has market watchers worriedly speculating about a calm before a storm.

SMITH BRAIN TRUST – Cuba is experiencing a brain drain, though it's not the kind that forecasters were predicting when the long-closed country began opening its borders. It's internal brain drain.

The Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business hosted its inaugural Export Management Bootcamp in Baltimore on April 28-29.

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — Like Jay Z, Apple is heavy roll, heavy dough. The tech giant reported this week that its cash stockpile grew to a staggering $256.8 billion at the end of the first quarter, up from $233 billion a year earlier. Apple isn't alone in accumulating wealth abroad.

SMITH BRAIN TRUST – President Donald Trump’s tax reform proposal, as unveiled last week, would reduce income taxes for many Americans, says William Longbrake, an execut

SMITH BRAIN TRUST – A lot of chatter this week has been about Apple's whopping quarter-trillion-dollar cash stockpile. But Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway is also sitting on a lot of money. The company, which has a history of making marquis acquisitions, has some $86 billion on hand.