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Faculty Profile
Rajshree Agarwal (Ph.D, 1994, Economics, University at
Buffalo) is a Chaired Professor in Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the
University of Maryland. Rajshree’s research interests focus on the implications
of entrepreneurship and innovation for industry and firm evolution. Her recent
projects examine the micro-foundations of macro phenomena, linking knowledge
diffusion among firms, industries, and regions to the underlying mechanisms of
employee entrepreneurship and mobility. Rajshree has published articles in
journals such as Academy of Management Journal, American Economic Review,
International Journal of Industrial Organization, Journal of Industrial
Economics, Journal of Law and Economics, Management Science, Strategic
Management Journal and Review of Economics and Statistics. Her paper on employee
entrepreneurship received the Best Paper Award for 2004 from the Academy of
Management Journal, and her work on post exit knowledge diffusion received the
Stephen Shrader Award at the 2005 Academy of Management Meetings. She is an
associate editor of the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal and the editor of the
SSRN Entrepreneurship and Economics Journal. Rajshree also serves, or has
served, on the editorial board of the Academy of Management Journal, the Academy
of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal and Strategic Organization.
She has received research grants from the Kauffman Foundation, the Mellon
Foundation, the Marketing Science Institute, the National Science Foundation,
and the US Department of Agriculture.
Rajshree has taught a wide range of courses in strategic
management, entrepreneurship, technology and innovation, industrial organization
and microeconomics at the undergraduate, MBA, Executive MBA and PhD levels.
Consistent with her interests in innovation, she strives to incorporate the
latest pedagogical technologies in her teaching, and has won many awards for
teaching excellence and a demonstrated increase in teaching productivity. She is
passionate, in particular, about providing business education to science and
engineering students to enable them to be effective in diffusing the knowledge
they create for economic growth and social welfare. Prior to coming to
University of Maryland, Rajshree undertook efforts at the University of Illinois
towards creating specialized certificate programs and courses to help serve this
need. In part as recognition of these efforts, and in part for her scholarly
achievements, the University of Illinois bestowed her with the “University
Scholar” designation in 2009, the highest honor given to its faculty in
recognition of overall excellence. Rajshree looks forward to creating similar
initiatives here at Maryland.
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