Thought Leadership
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 2, 2019
The Hunt for Clean Water
Few business problems are more basic than delivering clean drinking water to thirsty customers. Yet solutions remain elusive in the United States and elsewhere.
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The Hunt for Clean Water
March 31, 2019
How Do You Recover from a Flood?
Niratcha Tungtisanont's research at the University of Maryland examines how industrialization and internet use impact income and recovery after floods. Her findings highlight the importance of communication and community collaboration in effective disaster recovery efforts.
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How Do You Recover from a Flood?
March 30, 2019
Are You Really Having Fun?
Consumers make more hedonic choices when their preferences are visible to others, so that they can promote the image that they are having fun — whether or not they really are.
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Are You Really Having Fun?
March 29, 2019
How Can Small Businesses Tackle Big Data Challenges?
For small to midsized businesses, like their larger counterparts, success correlates with being adept in an interlinked web of financial entities and networks, supply chains and ecosystems.
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How Can Small Businesses Tackle Big Data Challenges?
March 28, 2019
How Can Leaders Recover After a Fall?
If leaders take certain steps, stakeholders in their organizations will continue to believe in their legitimacy even after they lose status.
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How Can Leaders Recover After a Fall?
March 28, 2019
Why Real Individualists Work Together
People love stories about determined entrepreneurs who work alone until they achieve success. But an isolationist mindset tends to backfire in the real world.
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Why Real Individualists Work Together
March 28, 2019
How Volvo Is Normalizing Electrification
In what was heralded as an encouraging step, Volvo last week announced that the margins on its electric vehicles are set to match those of combustion engines by 2025. But, was it really a milestone in the electric car evolution?
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How Volvo Is Normalizing Electrification
March 27, 2019
Is Your Boss Too Busy To Be Fair?
Think your boss is a jerk because he or she treated you unfairly? It’s possible your manager just has too much to do, Maryland Smith research shows.
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Is Your Boss Too Busy To Be Fair?
March 26, 2019
How Can Luxury Brands Deter Counterfeits?
Luxury brands use legal threats and guilt campaigns to deter people from buying knockoff products. But Maryland Smith research explores a better way.
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How Can Luxury Brands Deter Counterfeits?
March 26, 2019
When Marketing Becomes Creepy
The marketing was innovative. It was clever. It was bold enough to warrant coverage in The Wall Street Journal. It was also ... creepy.
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When Marketing Becomes Creepy