The Robert H. Smith School of Business welcomed high-schoolers from across Prince George’s County for the school’s eighth Finance Field Day on Friday, April 15, 2011.   Students from Eleanor Roosevelt, Suitland, Fairmont Heights, Largo, Northwestern, Charles Herbert Flowers, Bladensburg and Potomac High Schools sent a combined total of 140 students to […]

Apple and Google have 34 percent of the portable gaming market, thanks to cell phone users, according to a report from the mobile analytics firm Flurry.   “It makes sense from a finance perspective because they’re creating a whole new market, considering that people are buying more cell phones and getting […]

Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) has announced a plan to deter the nuclear crisis at its Fukushima Dai-Ichi power plant within the next six months. The disaster caused TEPCO stocks to drop to a 60-year low and the company still has enormous compensation claim payments in the future.   […]

Facebook is still blocked in China, but with the help of Chinese internet company, Baidu, the two giants are looking to release a similar social networking website in China. Early this month, several meetings with Facebook Chief Executive Office Mark Zuckerberg and Baidu CEO Robin Li have indicated negotiations […]

An NFL salary cap expert told Sports Business Society members Wednesday that he believes there is a good possibility there will be an NFL season this year.             J.I. Halsell, an ESPN insider who has worked for the NFL, the Washington Redskins, and now […]

When he first came to the University of Maryland, Sports Business Society vice president Ben Garner became a kinesiology major in an effort to find a path to work in the field of sports business. Garner said he took a big step towards ultimately finding that career by joining […]

Students and alumni of the Robert H. Smith Business School mingled on Wednesday night in room 2333 of Van Munching discussing one of the most ominous topics for college students: the future.   But this was a different kind of alumni-student function. All of the alumni graduated within the last four years […]

This fall A&E plans to air a new pilot series focusing on making over the careers of the unemployed in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.   The series, titled Career Makeover, will focus on life as an unemployed citizen and plans to give viewers a more personal view of what […]

Opposite to analysts’ predictions, retail sales rose this month. Sales rose 1.7 percent at stores that had been open at least a year, even though they were expected to decline 0.7 percent.   More than a half-million jobs have been created in the past four months, and job openings in February jumped […]

The Senior Manager of Internal Audit at QIAGEN talked to Global Business Society and International Economics and Finance Society members Tuesday about working in auditing and working internationally.   Robin Spahr, a 2004 alumnus of the Robert H. Smith School, does most of her auditing from QIAGEN’s North American headquarters in […]