World Class Faculty & Research / November 1, 2012

Smith Business Close-Up: Narcissism is a Bad Sign

Thursday, November 1, 2012, 7:30 p.m. & Sunday, November 4, 2012, 7:30 a.m.

Narcissism is a Bad Sign

In this edition of Smith Business Close-Up with the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of
Business, Nick Seybert talks about his new research that looks at the size of CEO’s signatures on annual
SEC filings to measure narcissism and how that relates to firm performance.

Seybert is an assistant professor at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of
Maryland in the Accounting and Information Assurance Department. He studies financial accounting
and behavioral finance, particularly how optimistic beliefs arise and are disciplined in the market.
His research has been published in leading journals, including the Accounting Review, the Journal of
Accounting Research, and Management Science.

Smith Business Close-Up is co-produced by the Robert H. Smith School of Business and Maryland Public Television. The television segment focuses on the latest thinking in business management, and features in-depth interviews with Smith School faculty and other members of the school’s community of business leaders.

Where to Watch
Smith Business Close-Up can be seen bi-weekly on Maryland Public Television's Your Business and Money. The program airs at 7:30 p.m. on Thursdays and is repeated the following Sunday at 7:30 a.m. on public television stations throughout Maryland and the Washington, D.C., metropolitan region, including:

  • WMPB-TV (Ch. 67), Baltimore
  • WMPT-TV (Ch. 22), DC metro/Annapolis
  • WCPB-TV (Ch. 28), Salisbury
  • WFPT-TV (Ch. 62), Frederick
  • WWPB-TV (Ch. 31), Hagerstown
  • WGPT-TV (Ch. 36), Oakland

Media Contact

Greg Muraski
Media Relations Manager
301-405-5283  
301-892-0973 Mobile
gmuraski@umd.edu 

About the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business

The Robert H. Smith School of Business is an internationally recognized leader in business education and cutting-edge research. The school’s world-class faculty facilitate experiential learning opportunities rooted in the real world. Smith students learn to think like entrepreneurs, prepared to drive positive impact. The school offers undergraduate, online and on-campus business master's, full-time, part-time, online and executive MBA, plus PhD and DBA degree programs, and non-degree and executive education programs. Where Smith leads, the future follows.

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