
“The attorney general of Ohio sued the country’s largest credit rating agencies on Friday, alleging that they had cost state retirement funds some $457 million by approving high-risk Wall Street securities that went bust in the financial collapse,” The New York Times reports. The ...

The House Foreign Affairs Committee held a hearing today on the federal ban on travel to Cuba. Supporters of the ban claim that allowing U.S...

Smeal College of Business Top executives come to speak to students with a business focus.

The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments last week in the case Bilski v. Kappos, in which Bernard Bilski and Rand Warsaw are appealing a decision by the U.S...

President Obama recently announced that Washington will spend $3.4 billion dollars of federal stimulus funds to modernize the nation’s power grid, indentifying 100 projects to make the grid smarter and more efficient. ...

Smeal College of Business RESEARCH: In this three part video series, Smeal's Keith Crocker answers questions about the current health care debate, addressing health savings accounts, Medicare Advantage plans, the public option, private insurers, uninsured Americans, and where he thinks we should go from here.
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In this three part video series, Keith Crocker, the William Elliott Chaired Professor of Insurance and Risk Management at Penn State's Smeal College of Business, explains various issues and concepts surrounding ...

The drug industry spends billions of dollars on advertising each year, but a recent BusinessWeek article claims they may be scaring consumers away...

Smeal's Center for Supply Chain Research is working with the U.S. Army's Iraq Training and Advisory Mission (ITAM) to assist in the logistics training of Iraqi officials. Army ITAM is tasked with the support and sustainment of the various government ministries for the Republic of Iraq...

BusinessWeek’s Cliff Edwards reports on California’s plan to regulate the sale of televisions that are not energy-efficient, leaving consumer electronic companies and retailers up in arms. “As early as Nov. 4, t...

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Pay czar Kenneth Feinberg acknowledged concerns on Monday that his mandated executive compensation cuts at bailed out firms may cause some talent to leave these firms for those not facing pay restrictions. In his latest column, Smeal’s J. ...

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RESEARCH: The increase in global sourcing opens the door for unavoidable and potentially severe disruptions within a firm's supply chain. Smeal's Chris Craighead stresses the need for supply chain managers to understand the risks involved with each supplier before it's too late. http://research.smeal.psu.edu/news/avoid ing-risky-business
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With consumer spending dwindling over the past couple months, retailers are hoping to see it increase with the holiday shopping season. In order to seize the opportunity and boost sales, retailers need to ensure on-time product delivery from their suppliers. ...

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The Penn State IFC/Panhellic Dance Marathon (THON) is a yearlong effort to raise funds and awareness for the fight against pediatric cancer.

“By the middle of next year, Internet surfers will be allowed to use Web addresses written completely in Chinese, Arabic, Korean, and other languages using non-Latin alphabets,” The New York Times reports. “I...

Smeal College of Business Smeal alum and U.S. Steel chairman and CEO John Surma will speak at the college on Friday, Nov. 6, at 11:15 a.m.
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John Surma, chairman and chief executive officer of United States Steel Corporation, is scheduled to speak at Penn State's Smeal College of Business on Nov. 6 as part of the college's executive speaker series, Leadership in Focus: Executive Insights.














