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Lawrence A. Gordon, Ernst & Young Alumni Professor of Managerial Accounting and director of the PhD program at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, gives an overview of the Smith School’s PhD program.

The following books authored by Smith faculty members were recently published.

G. Anandalingam and H. Lucas, Beware the Winner's Curse: Victories that Can Sink You and Your Company, New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Research by Nerrisa Brown

Research by April M. Knill

The Smith School would like to offer congratulations to the following Smith PhD Candidates

Nerissa Brown, Accounting and Information AssuranceBest Paper Presentation Award“Herd Behavior in the Voluntary Disclosure of Capital Expenditure Forecasts”Center for Corporate Reporting and Governance ConferenceCosta Mesa, CA, September 2004

The MBA program at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland ranked No. 20 among all U.S. MBA programs in the Financial Times MBA 2005 rankings, published January 24th. The influential rankings place Smiths MBA program No. 6 among all U.S. public business schools and No. 30 in the world.

Research by Nerrisa Brown

This issue of Research@Smith focuses on the award-winning research of three Smith PhD candidates, but there are many other Smith PhD students with equally impressive accomplishments.

Roland Rust, holder of the David Bruce Smith Chair in Marketing, chair of the marketing department and director of the Center for e-Service, was named the next editor of the Journal of Marketing, ranked number one in two of the last three surveys of major marketing journals.

Neither rain nor snow nor sleet nor dark of night could stop the ten teams contending for first place in the re-scheduled Part-Time MBA Business Innovation Competition on Friday, January 28. Each team had just eight minutes to convince an astute panel of judges that they had the most innovative idea, and a comprehensive business plan that could bring it from the realm of ideas to reality.