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The lifeblood of a business school is its faculty, and at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business our faculty members are inspiring, supportive and world-class. We are attuned to a marketplace that values innovation, entrepreneurialism, analytical thinking and hard work. Our teaching and research equips students with the wisdom of business scholarship rooted in the experiential lessons of the marketplace.
February 23, 2022
Can’t Do Inbox Zero? Try This Instead
Imagine beginning your workday with an email inbox that was nearly empty, and ending it in a Zen-like perfect state of emptiness. It’s the idea, of course, behind Inbox Zero, the meticulous email management system aimed at keeping the inbox message-free.
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Can’t Do Inbox Zero? Try This Instead
February 22, 2022
How To Avoid Tedious Meetings
With the return to in-office work comes the return to in-person meetings, and a reminder of how tedious many of those can be.
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How To Avoid Tedious Meetings
February 16, 2022
Gender, Competitiveness and How We Advocate for Others
In the workplace, success sometimes comes down to how competitive you are. And sometimes it comes down to how competitive the people are who are advocating on your behalf.
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Gender, Competitiveness and How We Advocate for Others
February 15, 2022
With a Legal Expert in Leadership, Firms Are Less Likely to Overstate Earnings
Firms are more likely to face accounting-related lawsuits for overstating their earnings or assets than for understating them because it’s easier to demonstrate investor harm with overstatements. So erring on the conservative side can reduce a firm’s legal costs.
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With a Legal Expert in Leadership, Firms Are Less Likely to Overstate Earnings
February 15, 2022
Super Bowl Ads: Celebrities, Cars and Crypto
If a single theme emerged from the deluge of Super Bowl commercials for cryptocurrency, electric vehicles and online booking agencies, it was one that steered viewers away from the worries of the last two years.
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Super Bowl Ads: Celebrities, Cars and Crypto
February 7, 2022
People Analytics for an Equitable Workplace
“People analytics” – traceable to 1911’s The Principles of Scientific Management, which sought to apply engineering methods to managing people – has exploded with advances in computer power, statistical methods and artificial intelligence (AI).
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People Analytics for an Equitable Workplace
February 3, 2022
Pandemic Protocols and Diplomatic Boycotts: Can the Olympics Survive?
On-site spectators will be missing Friday as athletes parade in Beijing for the XXIV Olympic Winter Games opening ceremonies. There will be pandemic-inspired protocols in place, extending through the competitions – similar to the ones adopted at the most recent Summer Games in Tokyo. And there's a…
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Pandemic Protocols and Diplomatic Boycotts: Can the Olympics Survive?
January 20, 2022
Microsoft Aims to Level up With Activision-blizzard. It’s Not That Easy.
Its proposed $75 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard would make Microsoft the world’s third-largest publisher of video games and, more significantly, would solidify its position in the development of the "metaverse” – widely considered the next evolution of the internet by which users in the…
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Microsoft Aims to Level up With Activision-blizzard. It’s Not That Easy.
December 20, 2021
Do COVID Lockdowns Really Work?
As the world struggles to contain the spread of COVID-19, many countries grapple with the possibility of imposing more lockdown measures, like those widely used in the spring of 2020. But how well do lockdowns work at keeping people home? New research from Maryland Smith’s Yogesh Joshi finds they…
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Do COVID Lockdowns Really Work?
December 15, 2021
New Marketing Technologies Usher In Data-Driven Growth
In a new Journal of Marketing special issue, “New Technologies in Marketing,” Maryland Smith’s Michel Wedel co-authors an editorial that outlines how academics can support marketers to deliver data-driven growth.
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New Marketing Technologies Usher In Data-Driven Growth