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Trevor Foulk received the Society of Industrial Organizational Psychology (SIOP) early career award in Science.

Rebecca Ratner has been elected President of the Association for Consumer Research. She will serve a 3-year term, serving as President-Elect in 2024, President in 2025, and Past President in 2026.

On January 25, 2024, Smith Professor Anil Gupta (along with his co-author Haiyan Wang) were the invited guests of the Strategy Imagination Forum, a fireside chat on “China and India: What Next” hosted by Strategic Management Society, the premier academic body of business strategy scholars worldwide. In October 2023, SMS honored Gupta with its annual C.K. Prahalad Award for Scholarly Impact on Practice.

Mary Harms received the 2023 Direct Marketing Association of Washington (DMAW) Educational Foundation 2023 O’Hara Leadership Award.

Albert "Pete" Kyle received the Wharton-Jacobs Levy Prize for his research on market microstructure, based on his 1985 Econometrica paper, “Continuous Auctions and Insider Trading.”

Anil K. Gupta received the 2023 CK Prahalad Award for Scholarly Impact on Practice from the Strategic Management Society. 

Russ Wermers won the top prize in the International Centre for Pension Management 2023 Research Awards.

Bruce L. Golden was nominated and selected as the recipient of the Glover-Klingman Prize for the best paper published in Networks: An International Journal in 2022. The prize was announced in December 2023.

Bobby Zhou is one of the 12 recipients of the 2023 Marketing Science Service Awards for their premier journal, Marketing Science.

Roland Rust was named one of the top 86 most impactful researchers in business and economics worldwide, the only University of Maryland professor on the list. The list was assembled using an objective analysis of citations and other variables, by Clarivate, 2023. He was also ranked 88th in the world in Best Scientists in Business and Management by Research.com (top active researcher in any field at the Smith School), based on h-index in the business discipline. Also ranked #52 in the US across all business fields. Awarded Research.com Business and Management in United States Leader Award, 2023.

Oliver Schlake, working with Stephanie Lansing in UMD College of Agriculture and Natural Resources and a multidisciplinary team, received a $5 million NSF grant to develop NourishNet, featuring Quantum Nose, a portable and user-friendly food quality sensor that can detect early-stage food spoilage, and FoodLoops, a real-time app to optimize surplus food distribution to food insecure people.

Articles

February 28, 2024
21 Smith School Professors Named Among Top 2% Scholars Worldwide
The University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business faculty shapes future leaders in classrooms and drives global impact through groundbreaking research. Recently, 21 professors were ranked among the top 2% most-cited scholars worldwide by Elsevier. Explore their influential contributions elevating knowledge and inspiring the next generation of business leaders.
Read News Story : 21 Smith School Professors Named Among Top 2% Scholars Worldwide
September 18, 2023
Smith’s Pete Kyle Selected for Prestigious Wharton-Jacobs Levy Prize
Albert “Pete” Kyle to be honored with the prestigious Wharton-Jacobs Levy Prize for his influential 1985 Econometrica paper on market microstructure. Kyle's research, recognized for its impact on algorithmic trading, will be celebrated on Sept. 22, 2023, in New York. Learn more about Kyle's groundbreaking work in market microstructure.
Read News Story : Smith’s Pete Kyle Selected for Prestigious Wharton-Jacobs Levy Prize
August 14, 2023
Top Research Award to Russ Wermers’ Paper Exploring the Role of Economies-of-Scale in Pension Management
A paper coauthored by Smith’s Russell Wermers is selected for the top prize in the International Centre for Pension Management (ICPM) 2023 Research Awards.
Read News Story : Top Research Award to Russ Wermers’ Paper Exploring the Role of Economies-of-Scale in Pension Management
August 10, 2023
Smith’s Anil Gupta Recognized by Strategic Management Society for Scholarly Impact
Anil K. Gupta, Michael D. Dingman Chair in Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business has received the 2023 CK Prahalad Award for Scholarly Impact on Practice from the Strategic Management Society (SMS).
Read News Story : Smith’s Anil Gupta Recognized by Strategic Management Society for Scholarly Impact
May 25, 2023
Debra Shapiro Selected to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award

Debra Shapiro, the Clarice Smith Professor of Management & Organization at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, was selected to receive the International Association for Conflict Management’s (IACM) Lifetime Achievement Award.

Read News Story : Debra Shapiro Selected to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award
May 18, 2023
2023 Faculty and Staff Recognition Awards

One of the world’s top schools for business research, Maryland Smith also is where students experience top-level teaching in a highly supportive community. Smith chronicles and celebrates this distinction at the end of each academic year by honoring its outstanding faculty and staff members with awards of excellence.

Read News Story : 2023 Faculty and Staff Recognition Awards
April 7, 2023
UMD Recognizes Smith’s Rajshree Agarwal for Research Excellence
Rajshree Agarwal was recognized for her “insights into how innovation and entrepreneurship impact the evolution of industries, firms, and individuals,” as part of the recent 2023 Maryland Research Excellence Celebration.
Read News Story : UMD Recognizes Smith’s Rajshree Agarwal for Research Excellence
February 22, 2023
Smith School Awards 14 Faculty Grants for Innovative Research
Fourteen faculty teams at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business have been awarded three-year grants from the school for research projects that address the world’s grand challenges and reimagine learning in support of the University of Maryland’s vision and the Smith School’s strategic plan.
Read News Story : Smith School Awards 14 Faculty Grants for Innovative Research
February 17, 2023
Smith Faculty Leading, Collaborating in UMD Grand Challenges Projects
Robert H. Smith School of Business faculty members are engaged in three projects selected by the University of Maryland for Grand Challenges grants supporting research “to spur world-changing, interdisciplinary research and solutions."
Read News Story : Smith Faculty Leading, Collaborating in UMD Grand Challenges Projects
December 10, 2022
Hann Recognized as a University of Maryland Distinguished Scholar-Teacher

Since arriving at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business in 2008, Rebecca Hann has remained steadfast in her mission to positively impact her students and the world with her research. Those efforts recently earned her the University of Maryland Distinguished Scholar-Teacher award.

Read News Story : Hann Recognized as a University of Maryland Distinguished Scholar-Teacher
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