Faculty Impact Articles
College Park, Md. – February 24, 2011 – The nation’s $90 billion fleet of privately owned freight railway cars may be in jeopardy, according to a new report released today by the Supply Chain Management Center at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business.
College Park, Md. – February 10, 2011 — The University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business today announced the recipient of the 2010 Gordon Prize in Managing Cybersecurity Resources, an essay contest that had competitors offering innovative solutions for how to allocate resources to protect personal and sensitive data on computers and online. Melissa S.
College Park, Md. – February 8, 2011 – Ritu Agarwal, professor and Dean’s Chair of Information Systems at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, was named a 2011-2012 Distinguished Scholar-Teacher by the University of Maryland.
The Center for Financial Policy at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business partnered with the Salomon Center for the Study of Financial Institutions at the NYU Stern School of Business for a daylong conference on “The GSEs, Housing & the Economy” on January 24, 2011, in Washington, D.C.
With so many public and private-sector organizations becoming increasingly large and complex, what can senior leaders do to align their people around the organizations’ goals?
In this edition of Smith Business Close-Up with the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, Hugh Courtney discusses leadership in increasingly complex organizations.
Thursday, Jan. 20, 2011, 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, Jan. 23, 2011, 7:30 a.m.; Monday, Jan. 24, 2011, 4:30 a.m.
Leading Complex Organizations
With so many public and private-sector organizations becoming increasingly large and complex, what can senior leaders do to align their people around the organizations’ goals?
January 11, 2011: MEDIA ALERT
UMD Marketing Expert Says Verizon’s Success with iPhone Will Depend on Performance
Fascinated questions peppered the presentations at the 7th Annual Forum on Financial Information Systems and Cybersecurity at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business on January 19, 2011.
Who doesn’t want to be better than average? Top the average income, rate a bit better in the “looks” department, have smarter kids. As it turns out, we consumers don’t want to be just average in using our products, either. And if marketers understand this, they can harness it to increase their effectiveness.
The Smith School’s marketing department combines leading scholars who have had profound influence on the discipline with young scholars showing great promise and potential for impact. Two faculty members recently received major awards.