Faculty Awards

Rajshree Agarwal receives the 2025 STR Outstanding Educator Award for her exceptional mentorship and enduring contributions to Ph.D. education and the global strategy academic community.

Jie Zhang and PhD alum Min Kim won the AMA’s 2025 Don Lehmann Award for their Journal of Marketing Research article on predicting online shopping preferences in dynamic, large-scale retail assortments.

PK Kannan was honored with the AMA TechSIG Lifetime Achievement Award for enduring contributions to innovation, technology, and interactivity in marketing scholarship.

Cliff Rossi, professor of the practice and director of the Smith Enterprise Risk Consortium, received a Smith Teaching/Learning Innovation Grant for 2024-25 to advance innovative, data-driven teaching practices that support the School’s strategic focus on smart learning environments.

Margrét Bjarnadóttir received the Knight’s Cross of the Icelandic Order of the Falcon for her pioneering research in pay equity and her significant contributions to HR analytics and workplace equality initiatives.

Bruce Golden was designated a Fellow of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS). 

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.