Self-preferencing by large tech companies, like Amazon, faces scrutiny, with Congress considering the AICOA and OAMA bills to restrict the practice. A UMD Smith expert suggests these regulations could unintentionally raise consumer prices by reducing competition between sellers.
With Google defending itself in federal antitrust cases for monopolizing digital advertising and search, UMD experts examine the implications for the tech giant as well as for its advertisers, consumers and competitors.
Marketing professor Bobby Zhou explains three key factors to the Summer Olympics’ large viewership: an enticing Paris backdrop, ideal time zones for viewers and the Olympics’ innate potential to create a moment of unity.
UMD business experts’ analysis includes Olympics gender parity as an opportunity for marketers to showcase uplifting narratives about overcoming challenges and winning to reach consumers, especially women.
Clifford Rossi, formerly a senior risk executive for the likes of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Citigroup and Washington Mutual, proposes a Federal Natural Hazard Insurance Corporation – a private-public approach to providing homeowners insurance across all natural hazards and states that would address myriad failures in today’s insurance market.
UMD Smith’s Suresh Acharya, who has worked on airline optimization systems for decades, assesses the air travel industry amid its busy summer.
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.”
Risk management expert Clifford Rossi gives context, with risk-response insights, on commercial real estate’s perceived demise.
Expert Gerald Suarez, gives career insights on navigating quiet cutting via “identifying the ‘why,’” “reading the tea leaves,” “finding the ‘off-ramp’” and “starting a new chapter.”
Whether they’re working from home or on site, many employees are taking a break between 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. and making up the time later that night. Smith expert Nicole Coomber says, “sometimes it’s worthwhile to take a step back from work, rather than trying to just keep grinding.”
Samuel Handwerger describes implications of Moore v. United States, a case before the Supreme Court that challenges the Mandatory Repatriation Tax provision of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
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.
Samuel Handwerger explains the safe harbor accounting method as a recourse for cryptocurrency investors in cases like that of Celsius Network.
UMD Smith expert gives five keys for supervisors and workers to enhance their approach to work-life balance.
Finance professor Albert “Pete” Kyle describes how the SVB-fueled banking crisis has created the conditions for a severe recession rather than the mild recession that Federal Reserve economists have predicted.
UMD Smith's Lemma Senbet, an advisor to the G20 Compact with Africa, describes the impetus and economic implications of South Africa joining a 10-day naval exercise with Russia and China.
UMD Smith’s Gerald Suarez examines post-pandemic employer-worker dynamics.
Accounting lecturer and tax expert Samuel Handwerger at the University of Maryland examines the Biden Administration’s stalled student loan forgiveness program and gives advice for borrowers for the latest repayment pause period.
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.
Clouds are on the horizon for U.S. housing, says UMD Smith’s Clifford Rossi. He examines key variables to determine whether “we’re looking at a Cat 5 hurricane or merely a steady rain.” He says anticipate the latter.
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