Faculty Impact Articles

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
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 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 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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April 3, 2015
Sally S. Simpson, Debra Shapiro and Christine Beckman Receive Grant from the Advance Program

 

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April 2, 2015
The $100 Billion Questions
Can Your Firm Pass Tata’s Performance Excellence Assessment?

Few companies can match the recent global expansion of the Tata Group, which owns brands such as Jaguar, Land Rover, Taj Hotels and Good Earth Teas.

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April 2, 2015
Lecture Explores Why Business Students Should Pay Attention to Changes in the Family

Why do we commonly think of the family and the capitalist market as mutually exclusive domains? Many see the family as the realm of love and intimacy and the market as the realm of self-interested individuals. But in fact, the two have always been deeply inter-related.

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