UMD Smith expert explains the wave of tech job layoffs as a sign of a broader, labor market shift to where “humans need to recalibrate and capitalize on strengths beyond pure intelligence—like intuition, empathy, creativity, emotion and people skills.”
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Biden Administration’s Executive Order on AI: UMD Experts Available on Implications for Industry, Academia
Experts at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business are available to discuss the Biden Administration’s Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (AI). The order “will deploy numerous federal agencies to monitor the risks of artificial intelligence…
Icelandic Women’s Strike: Gender Pay Gap Expert Available
Gender pay equity researcher Margrét Vilborg Bjarnadóttir, PhD, at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business is available to extend the discussion related to tens of thousands of women in Iceland striking on October 24, 2023, to…
Why the UFC-WWE Merger is a One-Two Marketing Punch
Marketing professor Mary Beth Furst explains why TKO has reason to believe that both WWE and UFC can complement each other to grow the overall market of viewers in the combat sports and entertainment space.
Enterprise Risk Consortium Forthcoming from UMD Smith
Risk management expert Clifford Rossi to lead initiative targeting risk practitioners in response to evolving climate change events and recent bank failures.
FDIC Takeover, JP Morgan Acquisition of First Republic: Risk Management Expert Available
Risk Management expert Clifford Rossi at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business can comment on the factors and implications surrounding the FDIC takeover of First Republic Bank and subsequent sale of the bank to JPMorgan Chase Bank. Rossi…
UMD Smith’s Michael Faulkender on Navigating the Debt Ceiling
Michael Faulkender, Dean’s Professor of Finance at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, says: “The fundamental issue is that the federal budget is on an unsustainable path. However, Congress must raise the debt ceiling. Default cannot occur…
Citi’s Q4 Profit Decline: Former Citi Risk Exec Clifford Rossi Available
Risk expert Clifford Rossi at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business is available to discuss the factors and implications of Citi’s Q4 decline in net profits by more than 21% from a year ago, as the bank sets aside more…
When the Award Goes to… Someone Else
Study shows non-winning nominees for company awards initially lose motivation but eventually become more responsive collaborators than prior to the awards being announced.
Risk Lessons from FTX
UMD Smith professor Clifford Rossi, who saw the subprime meltdown from the inside of Citi, WaMu and Countrywide leading to the 2008 financial crisis, dissects the FTX collapse from a risk management perspective.
UMD Smith Expert Weighs in on Market and Financial Implications of an Elon Musk Buyout of Twitter
With Elon Musk’s offer to proceed with a $44 billion acquisition of Twitter, Clinical Professor of Finance and stock market expert David Kass at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business says: “It now appears that Musk will…
Maryland Smith Increases Flexibility in Relaunch of Online Master’s in Business Analytics
Maryland Smith will increase flexibility in its Online Master’s in Business Analytics program for early-to-mid-career professionals by replacing synchronous class sessions with “both asynchronous learning and periodic touchpoints with faculty.”
Elon Musk’s Irony: Bots, the Impetus to Abandon His Twitter Deal, Have Propelled Tesla
Maryland Smith’s David Kirsch, who is researching pro-Tesla Twitter bots, describes the irony in Elon Musk’s stated reason for moving to abandon his $44 billion Twitter purchase agreement.
Musk’s Buyer’s Remorse and Potential Deal Outcomes
Elon Musk’s move to abandon his $44 billion offer to buy Twitter is less about bot traffic and more about Musk’s buyer’s remorse for agreeing to too high a purchase price, explains Maryland Smith finance expert David Kass