More than six months after an explosion aboard a drilling platform killed 11 people and spilled millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, BP agreed Monday to pay the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services $20 million. After the Deepwater Horizon rig ruptured in April, oil […]

This year the students and faculty involved in the Smith School’s Supply Chain Management Society and Supply Chain Club honored Senior Vice President of Supply Chain Mark Holifield as the “Person of the Year.” Holifield got his award at the Smith School’s annual Industry Day, an event which allows students […]

In the wake of Nov. 2 elections, which featured candidates running on business platforms in prominent races nationwide, a Maryland professor cautioned against “generalizing” the relationship between business and electoral politics. Dr. Peter Morici, an economist and professor in the Smith School of Business, dismissed the notion that a business […]

Leigh Anenson has had many jobs throughout her life. She has cleaned boats, managed ports as an international business consultant and practiced law, but feels that teaching may be her last stop. “I went into teaching full time because I knew I would like it,” Anenson said. “I just really […]

Google has filed a lawsuit against the Interior Department for giving Microsoft an exclusive contract without seriously considering Google Apps as an option for a productivity suite. The productivity suite services 88,000 employees, according to TechDirt.com.  Google said the contract is “unduly restrictive of competition,” but the department countered, saying […]

The Smith School Women’s Society held an informational meeting with The Washington Group of Northwestern Mutual Financial Network for those interested in internships and networking opportunities. The meeting was one of many that SSWS has held during the past five years and one of several activities that the organization has […]

Many carriers and manufacturers combined to boost sales of Android phones above sales of rival Apple’s iPhone in the third quarter. According to new data issued by market research firm NPD Group, Android-powered devices took 44 percent of sales, compared to 23 percent for the iPhone. Android sales rose 11 […]

Two Americans and a Briton earned the 2010 Nobel Prize in Economics Oct. 11, for their research on why markets – especially the job market – don’t always work as expected. The Nobel Foundation recognized economists Peter A. Diamond, Dale T. Mortensen and Christopher A. Pissarides “for their analysis of […]

World Bank economist Onur Ozlu gave a presentation to members of the International Economics and Finance Society in Van Munching Hall last week. Ozlu, an operations officer for the Africa region of the World Bank, began by giving an overview of the bank, and covered its 1950s origins to its […]

The Smith Undergraduate Student Association (SUSA) is holding a competition for people to design new logo to represent their organization. Barak Kamelgard, SUSA’s vice president of marketing, said that because SUSA was into new areas and growing as a community they would need a logo for easier recognition. David Wilmes, […]