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Now in its third year, Startup Maryland's "Pitch Across Maryland" bus tour will stop for a rally and business pitch session at the University of Baltimore on Thursday, Sept. 18. Budding entrepreneurs from the University of Baltimore and beyond—specifically, winners of the University's Rise to the Challenge Pitch Competition and the UB Entrepreneurship Fellows—will have a chance to share their ideas and concepts for new businesses with several successful business leaders, who will be on the bus when it pulls up in front of Gordon Plaza on Mt. Royal Avenue, between Maryland Avenue and Charles Street. The event, which celebrates entrepreneurship and brings focus to Maryland's diverse economic opportunities and business cultures, is scheduled to begin at 9:30 a.m. and continue until 11:30 a.m.

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Eusebio Scornavacca, the John and Margaret Thompson Professor of Management Information Systems in the University of Baltimore's Merrick School of Business, is among the world's top authorities on the continuing evolution of mobile business, according to research conducted for the 13th annual International Conference on Mobile Business. At the ICMB's gathering in London in June, Scornavacca's research papers and their influence on the field were declared to be among the top four researchers in the world, both in terms of the number of articles published as well as their impact on the field.

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Murray M. Dalziel, director of the University of Liverpool Management School and a longtime business developer, thought leader and adviser to senior executives in a number of top global companies, has been named dean of the University of Baltimore’s Merrick School of Business. Dalziel will join UB in August.

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The UB/Towson MBA wnt through forward-thinking redesign and was done so by collaborating with Baltimore's business community, students, alumni and faculty from both institutions.

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A group of students from the University of Baltimore’s Merrick School of Business successfully competed in the first round of the CFA Institute Investment Research Challenge on Feb. 21, besting their fellow students from several universities across Maryland and in Washington, D.C., in a contest to create and present the most effective equity research report and presentation about an actual publicly-traded company.

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Nikolay Ratajczak, a senior in the University of Baltimore’s Merrick School of Business undergraduate program in real estate and economic development, received a second place finish for his work in a national competition for undergraduate statistics projects.

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Former FDIC Chair and author of the book Bull by the Horns: Fighting to Save Main Street from Wall Street and Wall Street from Itself, Sheila Bair will speak at the University of Baltimore as part of the Merrick School of Business Speaker Series.

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University of Baltimore's Real Estate program will collaborate with the Chicago-based Institute of Real Estate Management. to advance the profession.

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A group of nine University of Baltimore students and recent graduates of the University’s honors accounting program in the Merrick School of Business and their faculty advisers will present research presentations to scholars and students from the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford.

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Eleven of the 25 largest accounting firms in the Baltimore area are headed by graduates of the University of Baltimore's Merrick School of Business and the UB School of Law—once again repeating the University's rank as the single largest producer of top-level managerial accounting talent for area firms. The results were announced in the Baltimore Business Journal's 2013 Book of Lists.

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'Fraud Library,' one of only a handful in country, donated by State Chapter of Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.

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Eight Students Will Present Their Ideas in Live Setting on April 26; Winner Receives Cash Prize Plus Experience of 'Pitching' to Potential Funders, Customers.

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Annual report by Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance-Jacob France Institute uses new 'hyperlocal' data on what's important to Baltimore's neighborhoods.

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University of Baltimore Merrick School of Business faculty member and executive in residence, J.C. Weiss was honored with a 2013 Board of Regents faculty award.

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Developing executive summary for introduction to April competition can help students find their marketing, product and service niche.

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The Merrick School of Business Speaker Series is a public forum to discuss relevant business topics with the greater Baltimore community. On April 10 Deborah Perry Piscione, author of Secrets of Silicon Valley will be on campus.

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The Daily Record has named Darlene Brannigan Smith, dean of the University of Baltimore's Merrick School of Business to its 2013 list of "Maryland's Top 100 Women."

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Experts from several disciplines to consider how business can best manage and take advantage of the opportunities stemming from this unprecedented growth in information resources. The relatively straightforward solution to the problem, is cloud computing.

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Debuting this fall, the M.S. in Innovation Management and Technology Commercialization program is intended for working students who plan to transition from the laboratory to organizational management. It integrates technological, market and organizational issues into the core of the program. Students with science- and technology-based degrees can enhance their career potential, moving into management.

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Maria Gisela Bardossy, assistant professor of decision science in the University of Baltimore's Merrick School of Business, received a first-place award from the nationally recognized Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences for her doctoral dissertation exploring computer network design.