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Larry Fitzpatrick, President of Computech Inc. speaking at the Robert H....
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Larry Fitzpatrick, President of Computech Inc. speaking at the Robert H. Smith School's CIO Forum on Nov 6, 2009
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If you didn't attend the conference, see what you missed and hear what t...
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If you didn't attend the conference, see what you missed and hear what those who did attend have to say.
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SmithBusinessSchool uploaded a new video
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On October 5, 2009, Dr. Kaufman discussed his new book, The Road to Fina...
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On October 5, 2009, Dr. Kaufman discussed his new book, The Road to Financial Reformation: Warnings, Consequences, Reforms, at an event hosted by the Smith School's Center for Financial Policy.
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The book examines the causes of financial meltdowns during the past half century before offering a cogent and compelling analysis of todays upended financial markets and what must be done to effect realistic reforms going forward.
This is a heavily condensed version of his speech.
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In 1980, the average CEOs compensation was about 42 times what the avera...
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In 1980, the average CEOs compensation was about 42 times what the average worker was paid, and by 2007, CEOs received about 344 times the average worker salary. Theres a debate over whether this ballooning of executive compensation is a failure of corporate governance, evidence of abuse of power, or just a reflection of market forces -- that top CEOs must be paid top dollar, or theyll take their (presumably irreplaceable) talents to other organizations. But how do companies arrive at these astronomical sums?
In this edition of Smith Business Close-Up with the University of Marylands Robert H. Smith School of Business, Michael Faulkender, assistant professor of finance, shares his findings from research into executive compensation practices and how firms decide what to pay their CEOs. Faulkenders research focuses on empirical corporate finance, primarily in the areas of capital structure, risk management, corporate, liquidity, and executive compensation. His research has received recognition and awards from top academic journals and he has been awarded a research grant from the FDIC Center for Financial Research, which was accompanied by an appointment to serve as a fellow of the center during the term of the grant. He is a member of the American Finance Association, the Western Finance Association, and the Society of Financial Studies.
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The trend of businesses going online forming more and more services is n...
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The trend of businesses going online forming more and more services is nothing new, but the number of online marketplace is increasing at a rapid pace, even in the current economic downturn. These marketplace Websites can help businesses accomplish tasks as varied as outsourcing work, recruiting employees, finding service providers and buying supplies. Although this trend has pre-bubble origins, the current recession has seen an increase in marketplace sites that power these marketplace and increased business adoption.
In this edition of Smith Business Close-Up with the University of Marylands Robert H. Smith School of Business, Reed Alexander Atkin, a recent MBA graduate, talks about how, despite the recession, he launched an online service business with the help of the Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship.
Atkin founded and heads up Legal River, an online marketplace dedicated to helping lawyers and businesses connect. Businesses can use to post their legal needs and desired lawyer qualifications, and then receive responses from interested lawyers. Atkin has a successful track record of building, launching and growing businesses in the consumer services, e-commerce and b2b space. Prior to co-founding Legal River, he operated and grew a supplemental education business located near Seattle. He launched Legal River in January with the help of the Dingman Centers entrepreneurial Jumpstart program, an intensive two-week program to help University of Maryland students start and grow businesses.
Smith Business Close-Up is co-produced by the Robert H. Smith School of Business and Maryland Public Television. The television segment focuses on the latest thinking in business management, and features in-depth interviews with Smith School faculty and other members of the schools community of business leaders.
Where to watch
Smith Business Close-Up can be seen bi-weekly on Maryland Public Television's Your Business and Money. The program airs at 7:30 p.m. on Thursdays and is repeated the following Sunday at 7:30 a.m. and Monday at 4:30 a.m. on public television stations throughout Maryland and the Washington, D.C., metropolitan region, including:
WMPB-TV (Ch. 67), Baltimore
WMPT-TV (Ch. 22), DC metro/Annapolis
WCPB-TV (Ch. 28), Salisbury
WFPT-TV (Ch. 62), Frederick
WWPB-TV (Ch. 31), Hagerstown
WGPT-TV (Ch. 36), Oakland
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