Faculty Impact Articles

April 29, 2015
Kudos to Marketing Professors & PhD Alumni

Congratulations to the following faculty and PhD alumni from the marketing department at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business:

Finalist, 2015 Marketing Science Long-Term Impact Award 

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April 29, 2015
Loose Facebook Posts Sink Ships: How the Navy Limits Online Distractions

SMITH BRAIN TRUST -- Keeping your employees from frittering away their days on social media should involve more tact and art than heavy-handed restrictions.

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April 29, 2015
Ratner Talks with Huff Post Live Today at 4 p.m.

Smith School Professor and Assistant Dean Rebecca Ratner talks with Huff Post Live today, Wednesday, April 29 at 4 p.m./EDT.

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April 23, 2015
How Much Confidence Should You Have in Research Findings?

How much confidence should you have in the findings published in the top strategic management journals? Less than you might think, according to new research.

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April 22, 2015
'Say on Pay' Curbs Excessive Compensation—in Some Cases

SMITH BRAIN TRUST -- Say on Pay, which gives shareholders a nonbinding vote on executive compensation, leads companies to reduce excessive pay in certain circumstances.

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April 16, 2015
Bankers' Catch-22: Lending to People Lacking Credit Histories

SMITH BRAIN TRUST -- Borrowers live or die by their FICO scores — numbers that offer a snapshot of how reliable they've been in paying back their debts. But some 53 million Americans don't have such scores because their credit history is thin or nonexistent.

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April 14, 2015
DRI Hosts First Collegiate Conference at UMD

On April 10, 2015, the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business partnered with Disaster Recovery Institute (DRI) International to hold DRI’s first collegiate conference. More than 100 DRI-certified professionals, business continuity planning leaders and students were in attendance.

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April 9, 2015
Professional Services Leadership Initiative Graduates Second Cohort

High-performing marketing managers from four global firms met at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business as part of Cohort Two of the Professional Services Leadership Initiative (PSLI).

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April 9, 2015
Book Discussion: Tata Group’s Success Formula

Tata Group acquisitions such as Jaguar Land Rover may finally have American consumers taking notice of the Indian company as a global force. The company has been a subject of an in-depth study on how to transform large corporations by Sunil Mithas, professor of information systems at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business.

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April 7, 2015
Gordon to Speak at International Cybersecurity Conference

Lawrence Gordon, professor of managerial accounting and information assurance at the University of Maryland’s Robert H.

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