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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.
April 16, 2020
Faced With Hardship, Here’s What Employees Want
The economic downturn accompanying the coronavirus pandemic has organizations wondering how to make tough-but-fair decisions that won’t lead to a mass exodus of talent. Recent research offers answers.
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Faced With Hardship, Here’s What Employees Want
April 3, 2020
How To Make the Most of Online Reviews
New award-winning research explains how consumers use online reviews and how marketers can make the most of them.
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How To Make the Most of Online Reviews
April 3, 2020
What Investors Can Learn as Luckin Loses Its Buzz
Successful entrepreneurs are good storytellers. Sometimes, their stories are more fiction than non-fiction.
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What Investors Can Learn as Luckin Loses Its Buzz
April 2, 2020
Looking Under the Hood of Tesla’s Valuation
How do you make sense of Tesla? It’s a Wall Street darling, but with fairly puzzling fundamentals. Here's what our 'Bubbles and Crashes' experts had to say.
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Looking Under the Hood of Tesla’s Valuation
April 1, 2020
The Marketing Messages Brands Must Adopt Now
With brands flooding our email inboxes with their statements about the coronavirus pandemic, it didn’t take long for consumer messaging fatigue to settle in. Here's what marketers need to say, and do, now.
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The Marketing Messages Brands Must Adopt Now
March 31, 2020
The End of the Shopping Mall?
What will happen to the shopping mall when the coronavirus crisis eases, when the stay-at-home orders are lifted and non-essential businesses are able to welcome customers back?
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The End of the Shopping Mall?
March 26, 2020
How To Be Amazing In Your Zoom Job Interview
Prepare for your virtual job interview just as you would an in-person interview. Then follow these important steps.
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How To Be Amazing In Your Zoom Job Interview
March 26, 2020
Build Personal Resilience During Covid-19
Your guide to better self-management, useful whether working from home, seeking a job, or managing any changes that can come with ordinary life.
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Build Personal Resilience During Covid-19
March 25, 2020
The Coronavirus Recession
For the U.S. economy, these are dark days. Social distancing steps aimed at stemming a pandemic's spread have people and businesses closing their doors. Uncertainties and worries are high. Here is our expert's outlook.
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The Coronavirus Recession
March 23, 2020
Can We Trace Corporate Generosity to Employee Moods?
New research finds employee moods have a lot to do with a company's philanthropic efforts.
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Can We Trace Corporate Generosity to Employee Moods?