Ed Snider Center

Exciting opportunity for High School Juniors and Seniors!

The Snider Enterprise & Leadership Fellows is a transformative program designed exclusively for high school students. Students will unlock their potential and pave the way for their future success. The program runs from July 8th - July 26th.

Students will:
- Earn 3 College Credits
- Discover their passions
- Cultivate leadership skills
- Network with business leaders
- Forge lasting connections

During this intensive three-week program, students will immerse themselves in a dynamic learning environment where they'll acquire invaluable mindsets and tools essential for personal fulfillment and self-confidence – crucial elements for success in any career path.

Don't miss this chance to gain a competitive edge and connect with motivated peers who share your drive for excellence. Join us under the guidance of award-winning faculty and embark on a journey of self-discovery and empowerment!

Application Deadline: May 1st, 2024

Apply now! To learn more go to: https://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/centers-initiatives/snider-center/programs-curricula/self

For more information and to register please go to https://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/centers-initiatives/snider-center/events-outreach/upcoming-events

Help us congratulate Maryland Smith's Lemma Senbet on being inducted as a Fellow of the Academy of International Business!

Senbet, “has come from Ethiopia to reach the heights of the finance profession in academia.”

“He’s involved in policy; he’s involved in mentoring new professionals. He’s very much engaged in connecting worlds of scholarship here and [in Africa]."

Read more: https://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/news/smiths-lemma-senbet-inducted-aib-fellow

DeepFake Epidemic Is Looming—And Adobe Is Preparing For The Worst The maker of PhotoShop and Premier Pro gave the world AI-powered tools to create convincing fakes. Now CEO Shantanu Narayen wants to clean up the mess.

Midyear Stocks to Watch | Maryland Smith Amid the highest inflation in 40 years, the “outlook for U.S. stocks in the second half of 2022 is very uncertain with at least a 50% probability of a recession in 2022 or 2023,” says Clinical Professor of Finance David Kass at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business.

Here’s The Latest Data On Climate And Food And It’s Not Good Challenges abound as industrial agriculture is threatened by access to key resources from water to healthy soils.

Swallowing Sticker Shock at the Grocery Store | Maryland Smith Consumers are grappling with sharply higher prices nearly everywhere, thanks to soaring inflation rates. The sticker shock at the grocery store can be particularly tough to swallow, says Maryland Smith’s P.K. Kannan, the Dean’s Chair in Marketing Science and associate dean for strategic initiati...

How President Biden's Ocean Reform Act could impact shipping and inflation

Rick Cohen’s Symbotic Expands Deal to Automate Walmart’s Warehouses To All 42 Regional Distribution Centers Walmart will retrofit all 42 of its regional distribution centers with Symbotic’s automation over the next eight-plus years.

MongoDB Extends Developer Data Platform For Modern Applications The modern app might pop up on your smartphone and provide you with really intuitive touchscreen functions and AI-like features, but it’s only truly modern if its modernized beneath. As it is in people it is in software, it’s what’s inside that counts.

We're MARYLAND Smith, but we also have D.C. connections both on Capitol Hill and in the classroom, like our D.C. campus for Flex MBA students: https://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/programs/flex-mba

This afternoon at 2:30, take a moment to watch Smith professor Michael Faulkender, who helped create the Paycheck Protection Program to provide small businesses with money to pay employees during the peak of the COVID pandemic, testify before the Senate on the small business workforce challenge.

Watch here: https://www.sbc.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/hearings?ID=745726FB-DEBD-4F12-9519-919759FD4E53

Why nuclear energy is on the verge of a renaissance

A recession in America by 2024 looks likely It should be mild—but fear its consequences

"While it’s clear the average worker benefits from being part of a union, some individual workers might be hurt by unionization." Read more from Evan Starr

https://observer.com/2022/05/as-apple-store-workers-organize-the-company-pushes-an-anti-union-message/

In the first-in-a series interactive discussion with EMBA and Flex-MBA students, Maryland Smith Dean Prabhudev Konana explains how blockchain is more than just hype. It “can creatively destroy the old ways, while offering new ways of doing business with potentially new value, done faster, better and cheaper.”

Read more in the spring issue of Smith Business: https://go.umd.edu/smithbusiness

How economic interdependence fosters alliances and democracy Why China’s economic might lacks political clout

This Nobel Prize Winner Explains Why You Need A Dose Of “Soft Insanity” To Be Successful Not all great discoveries are lauded, nor are all scientists and creators showered with praise. In fact, history is replete with great minds who were doubted, sometimes ferociously.

Federal Trade Commission launches investigation into infant formula manufacturers over nationwide shortage

Travel in cities has become like a spiderweb. People take fewer, often shorter journeys along thinner routes; they move to the side, as well as in and out. Transport systems around the world must change accordingly https://econ.st/3wBjgKB

Illustration: Sébastien Thibault

The 3 fastest-disappearing jobs in the U.S. over the next decade

War is tipping a fragile world towards mass hunger. Fixing that is everyone’s business. Our latest cover story explains how the calamity can be minimised https://econ.trib.al/rmxIMWe

House Democrats to hold hearings on baby formula crisis, introduce bill to beef up FDA inspections

You did it! See you at Smith School graduation in just two days! 🐢 🎓

"In a working paper, David Kirsch, along with his research assistant Mohsen Chowdhury, writes that Tesla’s stock seems to be propped up by a bot-powered Twitter narrative."



https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/are-bots-propping-up-teslas-stock-two-researchers-share-why-there-is-reason-to-investigate-8503261.html

Are bots propping up Tesla’s stock? Two researchers share why there is reason to investigate University of Maryland’s Prof. David Kirsch and his research assistant Mohsen Chowdhury share why they started looking into the company’s social-media narrative and what correlation they have found so far.

The woolliest words in business Which ones should you avoid?

Register now for tomorrow's Rutgers Institute for Corporate Social Innovation Questions & Unanswers About Social Innovation seminar series to hear Dr. Rajshree Agarwal and other panelists debate the topic, "Should companies reduce income inequality?"

May 13th 11:30AM-1PM Register Here:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeWWFDdX3LQLqT4KfkBM7lK5DpGL6V4XGIe1PJG-jmaB_DL4w/viewform

Apple spent more than it ever has on lobbying as antitrust threats loom

Chelsea is the latest Premier League club to be bought by Americans Roman Abramovich's exit underscores big changes in English football

Today at Noon!

The inaugural ESG Conference is tomorrow! We're bringing together thought leaders, industry innovators and more to discuss how environmental, social, and governance trends are changing the way business is done.

Sign up now: https://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/events/esg-conference-reimagine-your-impact