Smith Brain Trust
How Can Leaders Overcome Resistance to Change?
March 06, 2019
How do high-performing organizations learn and adapt their routines and procedures? Do they look to constantly bring new information into their processes?
Smith Research
The Evolution Of Applied Psychology
March 05, 2019
To mark its 100th anniversary in 2017, Maryland Smith's Gilad Chen explored the evolution of the research featured in the Journal of Applied Psychology.
Why There's An App For That
A new study examines what happens when a platform owner enters the market with a product that directly competes against rivals in the app store. Does it help or hurt innovation?
How Do You Win in Online Auctions?
The burgeoning secondary market of online business-to-business (B2B) auction platforms connect retailers to deeper pools of buyers for their unsold or returned inventory.
Do Public Firms Get a Bad Rap?
March 04, 2019
Pressure to deliver quarterly returns can drive managerial myopia. Recent studies link the short-termism to Wall Street culture and dynamics. But a deeper analysis tells a different story.
How Do You Win Over a Tough Audience?
March 03, 2019
Reluctant consumers have three main ways to resist advertising. They can avoid it, contest it or look within themselves for empowerment. But marketers have tricks of their own.
What Makes You Keep Reading?
March 02, 2019
Online content creators who want to keep people reading should start by making them angry or anxious, Maryland Smith research shows.
Does Your Work Space Spark Joy?
March 07, 2019
Maryland Smith's Nicole M. Coomber shows you how to use Marie Kondo's KonMari method and other strategies to make your workplace more productive, and more joyful.
A Tool for Closing the Gender Pay Gap
February 28, 2019
Equal pay for equal work is a simple notion, but surprisingly hard to implement without buy-in from upper management and quantitative tools for decision support.
Why Is It So Hard To Close the Gender Pay Gap?
March 01, 2019
Equal pay for equal work. It’s a simple notion, but one that’s surprisingly hard to implement without buy-in from upper management and quantitative tools for decision support.
How To Tax the Rich, And Do It Smarter
February 26, 2019
What is the best way to tax the wealthy in America? Maryland Smith's Kislaya Prasad offers two guiding principles.
Stop Investing in What You Know
February 21, 2019
Be careful about investing in something that seems exciting because you use it, entrepreneurship professors Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch write in their new book.
Pagination
