SMITH BRAIN TRUST – When Jonathan Aberman thinks about Snap Inc.

Companies worried about disruption need science and technology to stay relevant in the 21st century, but speakers at the fifth annual Smith School Business Summit pointed to soft skills as the real competitive advantage. “If you get leadership, management and culture right, everything else takes care of itself,” keynote speaker David Williams told an audience of more than 300 faculty, staff, students and working professionals gathered Oct.

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — A recent White House memorandum to heads of federal departments and agencies outlining a policy toward “ensuring Government-wide reuse rights for custom code that is developed using Federal funds" could be problematic for vendors that customize software for individual federal agencies, says entrepreneurship lecturer

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — Experts from the University of Maryland’s Robert H.

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — Appian Corp., a Reston, Va.-based maker of customized software for companies, made the news recently with the revelation that that it had reached enviable "unicorn" status. Based on private-equity valuatio

“If we don’t get Amazon’s HQ2 in this area, people are going to wonder, ‘What happens next?’ I want to create a program that answers that question. And the answer is: We all get back to work and we build great companies,” he says. “We help build tech product companies.”