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Payment Protection Program Reform: Maryland Smith Expert (Former U.S. Treasury Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy) Available
This week, President Biden is announcing changes to the Paycheck Protection Program that include a two-week window that allows only businesses with fewer than 20 employees to apply for loans.
Michael Faulkender, professor of finance at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, is available to share his insights about the program, which has largely been popular on both sides of the aisle.
Faulkender (bio) served as the Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy and Chief Economist of the United States Department of the Treasury from 2019 to 2021. In that role, he advised the secretary on domestic and international issues that impacted the economy. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he assisted in negotiating the CARES Act and was the senior Treasury official who led the implementation of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP).
How D.C.-Maryland Restaurants are Adapting to COVID
Restaurateurs and Food Columnist Tim Carman to Discuss Strategies for Survival in a Maryland Smith-Hosted Webinar
Newswise As restaurants have been particularly challenged by the COVID-19 pandemic, the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business has organized an online panel discussion with restaurateurs who will discuss how they have survived thus far and what others might learn from those experiences.
The free event, “Strategies for Survival: How Local Restaurants are Adapting in the Face of COVID,” is 3-4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021. Register via https://go.umd.edu/SuM.
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COLLEGE PARK, Md., Feb. 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ MBA degree seeking professionals in the Greater Washington and Baltimore region have a new option. The University of Maryland s Robert H. Smith School of Business has designed and opened a new Flex MBA program, providing versatile in-person and online access to a curriculum augmented with special topic seminars and completable within 24 months through the school s Baltimore, Rockville and Washington, D.C. locations. The program s design answers the fast pace of change in the current business environment and is ideal for students with five to eight years of professional experience, says Maryland Smith Dean of Master s Programs
Free Retail Management Series from Maryland Smith Begins Jan. 27
Latest trends in the retail industry and implications for small and medium-sized retailers is next installment of Maryland Business: Rebooted
Newswise Retail industry professionals are targeted for “Retail Management Strategies for Success,” a free webinar series from the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business.
Three, 90-minute sessions will run, live, 3 p.m. Wednesdays Jan. 27, Feb. 10 and Feb. 24 with subsequent, on-demand access.
Professor of Marketing Jie Zhang will cover the latest trends in the retail industry and implications for small and medium-sized retailers. The discussion will cover strategies, data and metrics that can be leveraged now.