Faculty Impact Articles

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — Interstate trucking by 2020 will be first, followed by autonomous taxi service. About half the fleet of U.S. cars become essentially autonomous by 2030.

SMITH BRAIN TRUST – Does food actually taste worse when we're dining alone? Recent research suggests solitude negatively affects our enjoyment of food, but finds we can counter the effect by p

SMITH BRAIN TRUST – Everybody knows Uber and Airbnb. The two startups are so big that their names have become not just noun, but verb. The riding-hailing service and the house-sharing service are two of today's best-known unicorn companies, privately held startups valued at more than $1 billion. 

SMITH BRAIN TRUST – Maybe those wildly high CEO salaries aren't an entirely bad thing.

SMITH BRAIN TRUST – The end is near for Libor, the scandal-plagued financial benchmark formerly dubbed "the world's most important number." British regulators say the

Amna Kirmani, the Ralph J. Tyser Professor of Marketing at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business, has been selected as one of three co-editors of the Journal of Consumer Research. Her editorship begins in January 2018 following the completion of her appointment as editor of the Journal of Consumer Psychology.

SMITH BRAIN TRUST – Even as our social media identities become more tightly interwoven in many aspects of our lives, should our postings and profiles be off-limits when it comes to our job searches?

Research into data analytics by marketing professors Michel Wedel and P.K. Kannan at the University of Maryland’s Robert H.

The Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) Advanced Professional Development Program is considered the premier training program for professionals in the growing and ever-evolving field of enterprise risk management.

SMITH BRAIN TRUST – J.Crew is battling some choppy seas.

It's had 10 consecutive quarterly sales declines, two straight years of losses, and now the iconic, classic clothier is swimming in more than $2 billion in debt.