Maryland Smith Research

Financially vulnerable individuals – those without a savings safety net – stifle their own economic advancement because they negotiate less effectively.

Regret is usually thought of as a bad thing, but new research identifies conditions when it can benefit companies as well as consumers.

There’s a lot marketers can learn from the text we create on social media. New research explains how.

A popular video game reveals a clear connection between how much hierarchy founders create in their startups and where they hail from.

In the grand scheme of the economy, the accounting information that individual firms report can have big impacts.

Some startups bet everything on a single visionary founder. But organizations with stable shared leadership are more likely to grow and emerge as industry anchors.

A powerful tool for curbing the growing worldwide problem of youth unemployment could be the ubiquitous mobile phone found in most teens’ pockets, finds new research.

Managers who rely on computer models to help with decision-making bump into a dilemma when it comes to allocation of scarce resources in complex environments with many moving parts.

Companies win when you put their branded mobile apps on your smartphone. But if the goal is to maximize firm value, new research suggests good, better and best ways to approach design.

Research explores how companies can structure innovation tournaments to drive meaningful results.