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.
Articles
Michel Wedel, a marketing professor from the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, will receive a career achievement award on Feb. 23, 2019, at the American Marketing Association Winter Academic Conference in Austin, Texas.
The Marketing Science Institute (MSI) has named Bobby Zhou, assistant professor of marketing at the University of Maryland's Robert H.
Maryland Smith professor Peng Huang received the Sandy Slaughter Early Career Award from the INFORMS Information Systems Society during the group's annual meeting Nov. 4-7 in Phoenix.
Lemma Senbet, the William E. Mayer Chair Professor of Finance at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business, was recently appointed to serve on the advisory council of the Ethiopian Diaspora Trust Fund (EDTF).
Bruce Golden, the France-Merrick Chair in Management Science at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business, has been named as the recipient of the George E. Kimball Medal.
Ritu Agarwal, Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Research at the University of Maryland's Robert H.
New Programming Includes Externships, Business Language Training
Skeptics pushed back in 1998 when marketing professor P.K. Kannan introduced a digital content revenue model at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business. “This is pure science fiction,” one peer reviewer wrote. “This is so futuristic that it doesn’t have any basis in reality.”
Debra Shapiro, Clarice Smith Professor of Management & Organization at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business, is among the top 100 most influential authors in organizational behavior, human resource management, strategy and general management as cited in textbooks.
Curt Grimm, the Charles A. Taff Chair of Economics & Strategy at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, traveled to Canada in June 2018 to deliver a keynote address at “the other” Smith School of Business — Queen’s University’s Stephen J.R. Smith School of Business in Kingston, Ontario.