Faculty Impact Articles
Thursday, January 15, 2015, 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, January 18, 2015, 7:30 a.m.
With the start of the new year, many people’s resolutions include setting career goals. Staying focused and setting a plan can make 2015 the year you land your dream job or that big promotion.
SMITH BRAIN TRUST -- 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 from the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business.
Thursday, January 29, 2015, 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, February 1, 2015, 7:30 a.m.
In today’s fast-paced world, executives have more on their plates than ever. But taking time to continue their education could make them better managers and leaders.
By Hui Liao
SMITH BRAIN TRUST -- Teams searching for innovation increase their odds of driving the evolution of a field when they reach out to colleagues—or to research findings—outside their field's area of expertise, a new study from the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business suggests.
Cyberattacks on companies worldwide increased by 48 percent from 2013 to 2014 as roughly 42.8 million data security breaches cost firms hundreds to potentially millions of dollars (according to this recent study).
December 21, 2014
Career Coach: How soon is too soon to quit?
December 6, 2014
SMITH BRAIN TRUST -- The holiday season is a boom time for the sale of consumer electronics, which means it’s also prime time for retailers to push extended-service contracts onto their customers. The contracts lengthen the terms of manufacturers’ warranties — for a hefty fee.
Tata Group acquisitions such as Jaguar Land Rover may have American consumers taking notice of the Indian company as a global force for the first time, but 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.
SMITH BRAIN TRUST -- Using a database of 130,000 Yelp reviews of restaurants in Washington, DC, two professors and a graduate student at the University of Maryland’s Robert H.