On the occasion of his reappointment as Dean of the McIntire School of Commerce, Carl Zeithaml discusses the current state of the School and its challenges going forward, and how the faculty, staff, students, alumni, and friends are the mains ...[Read More]

  Steven M. Davidoff, writing as The Deal Professor for The New York Times’ DealBook, discusses whether the current attacks against the private equity industry are warranted and leads with research by McIntire Professor David C. Smith and colle ...[Read More]

  Private equity firms—firms that finance acquisitions of other companies using substantial amounts of debt—are frequently characterized as the vultures of the finance world, swooping in to strip what value they can out of the newly debt-laden ...[Read More]

  Consider these statistics: An international risk survey found last year that 70 percent of the companies surveyed had not anticipated most of the risky events they experienced, and only 30 percent accurately estimated the impact of those epis ...[Read More]

  Professor Amar Cheema, co-author of a chapter on credit card mismanagement in the new book Transformative Consumer Research for Personal and Collective Well-Being, recently spoke with CreditCardGuide.com Correspondent Marcia Frellick about his ...[Read More]

McIntire Finance Professor David C. Smith and UVA School of Law Professor Michal Barzuza were guests on news/call-in show “At Issue with Ben Merens” on Wisconsin Public Radio Oct. 25, 2011. The two discussed “shell companies” and their prevalence in ...[Read More]

Former Associate Dean and Marketing Professor Bernie Morin celebrates his 80th birthday at the UVA/NC State football game Oct. 22, 2011. ...[Read More]

         David C. Smith                           Michal Barzuza   Nevada has long been known for luring gamblers. Now it turns out the state may be luring unwitting investors into more of a gamble than they bargained for.   According to a s ...[Read More]

Transformative Consumer Research for Personal and Collective Well-Being, co-edited by David Mick, explores the pitfalls and promises of well-being in a modern consumer-based society.   David Mick.   In the 4th century B.C., Aristotle asked, ...[Read More]

David C. Smith.   Smith’s research, co-authored with UVA Law School Professor Michal Barzuza, examines the characteristics of Nevada-based shell companies. Read the Reuters article and watch the Reuters news clip here. ...[Read More]