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Summer Reading Picks for Leaders Maryland Smith Business Experts Share Book Recommendations News provided by Share this article Share this article COLLEGE PARK, Md., May 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The 18th annual Summer Reading List for Business Leaders from the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business covers a range of topics again this year, including corporate strategy, AI, the pandemic, racism, burnout, love, the life of Thomas Edison, and the future of everything. 2030: How Today's Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything by Mauro Guillen: "The b...

A "Crocodile" armchair designed by Claude Lalanne. Courtesy of Sotheby's. A $400,000 pair of bronze pigeons and a $2 million armchair in the shape of a crocodile were among the highlights of a sale of objects from the estate of Michelle Smith, a Washington, D.C. businesswoman and philanthropist who died last year. The event brought in a whopping $45 million at Sotheby’s this month, nearly tripling the presale estimate of $16 million.  Led by pieces from French design duo Les Lalanne and the Giacometti brothers, the auction set a new record for a design sale at the auction house’s New Yor...

Hemmerle 19-Piece Collection Fetches $1.4m April 27, 21 by John Jeffay (IDEX Online) - An unrivalled collection of 19 pieces by the German jewelers Hemmerle fetched $1.4m, almost double the pre-sale estimate, at Sotheby's New York. The single most expensive lot was a pair of copper a nd diamond ear studs (see pic), featuring two old European-cut diamonds of 8.81carats and 8.80 carats. They sold for $201,600, surpassing their $100,000 to $150,000 estimate. The pieces - comprising the largest single-owner collection of Hemmerle - belonged to the late philanthropist, art patron and passionate ...

Letters to editor for Saturday, April 17, 2021 Letter writers Why DeSantis blocks vaccine passport The headline of the recent editorial from The Palm Beach Post said our governor’s vaccine passport ban “makes no sense.” Of course it does if one considers the ban in relation to his political ambitions. Two recent polls, Monmouth and Quinnipiac, found 43-45% of Republicans said they won’t get the COVID vaccine — a likely result of Donald Trump downplaying the severity of the virus and his politicizing the wearing of masks and receiving vaccines. According to the Florida Division of ...

Jobs in america. >> the white house and republican lawmakers are expected to pivot from health care to tax reform, let's talk about that part of the equation. the robert h smith school of business and the u.s. international trade commission. good to see you on this sunday. do you think corporate tax reform will boost the promise of manufacturing jobs. . >> at least any that matter in terms of size, even when you adjust for those, the effective rates that americans pay are higher than abroad. >> the tax plan was designed just to help rich folks, what's in this for the middle class? >> a and b, ...