Faculty Impact Articles
College Park, MD August 2, 2006 The University of Marylands Robert H. Smith School of Business today announced professor Kathryn M. Kay Bartol and professor emeritus Edwin A. Locke, both management and organization department faculty members, have been honored by the Academy of Management for their scholarly and professional contributions to the field.
Stories concerning cybersecurity issues are now common in the news media. Articles addressing the theft of laptop computers with entire confidential databases have topped the list in recent months. The need to protect the nations infrastructure, a large part of which is controlled by computer networks, has also been the subject of many recent news stories and government reports.
The Smith School hosted the 2006 AMA Sheth Foundation Doctoral Consortium, July 12-16. Smith's Roland Rust, David Bruce Smith Chair in Marketing, and Gabriel Biehal, associate professor of marketing, were the co-chairs of the prestigious annual marketing event.
Smith School faculty took center stage at this years Academy of Management conference, the largest annual gathering of management scholars in the world, held August 11 through 16 in Atlanta. Professor Ken G.
Our friends at ExecutiveBiz present The New New Internet: Web 2.0 for Business, an interactive conference on Web 2.0 applications that includes discussion from high-level experts about the future of IT, adaptive Web technologies and how they apply to business.
College Park, MD July 5, 2006 University of Maryland President C.D. Mote appointed Dr. William J. DeWitt III to Professor of the Practice, Logistics, Transportation and Supply Chain Management of the Robert H. Smith School of Business.
For several years an international group of researchers interested in the intersection of economics and information security have been holding a Workshop on Economics and Information Security (WEIS). The Fifth Workshop (June 26-28, 2006) was held at the University of Cambridge, UK, and close to 100 people (a combination of academician and practitioners) attended.
Anil K. Gupta, Ralph J.
Drs. Lawrence A. Gordon and Martin P. Loeb are part of the academic team from the University of Maryland's Robert H.
College Park, MD May 30, 2006 The University of Marylands Robert H. Smith School of Business today announced professor Lemma Senbet has been named a fellow by the Financial Management Association International for his significant contributions to the profession through his career-long scholarship and service.