Organizational Change Conference Educates Local Leaders

Managing change in an increasingly dynamic and turbulent global marketplace environment can differentiate organizations that are ultimately successful from those that are not. About 75 executives left the Smith School′s Center for Human Capital, Innovation and Technology′s Leading Change at All Levels of the Organization conference with innovative new ideas and visions for their organizations.

Smith School Study Shows Timing Key Factor in Technology Adoption

New research from the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business suggests there might be a right and a wrong time to introduce a new technology to guarantee the best reception. A study of a program that provided Nextel BlackBerry 7510 wireless handheld devices to all of the schools full-time MBA students found notable differences between first- and second-year MBA students use and acceptance of their handheld devices, with the first-year students expressing significantly higher levels of acceptance and commitment.

Smith PhD Selected for Wharton Post-Doc

Narda Quigley, an organizational behavior doctoral candidate, will head to the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School as a senior research fellow in its post-doctoral research-fellowship program in July 2003.

Information Sciences Students Poster Session

Students "Think Outside the Box" Using Tools of Modern Decision Making On the afternoon of December 10th, 21 Smith School students waited nervously in a large classroom, standing in groups of three before displays that illustrated their team's application of the most widely used decision support methodology in the world, the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). The poster session is part of the final project in the graduate course, Applications of Management Science.

Gannon Receives Landmark Award

"To be a top-class business school you must have a top-class international component," said Martin Gannon, professor of management and founding director of the Smith School's Center for Global Business, as he received the university's prestigious Landmark Award.

What's Up With GameStop?

Few would have guessed that GameStop would be Wall Street’s most eye-popping stock to watch. Our experts explain the frenzy.

A Post-Pandemic Strategy for Organizations

How do you plan for the next crisis? Begin by asking this question.

Job Seeking? How to Have an A+ Reference

Job hunting is never easy. But with a little help from others, it can be. Here's what you should know when reaching out to members of your network for a job reference.

Are We There Yet: What Happened to the Driverless Revolution?

Just a few years ago, the driverless car revolution seemed inevitable. But time passed and drivers are no closer than they were then to sitting in fully driverless vehicles. Maryland Smith's David Kirsch shares the roadmap for what happened to the driverless car dream and where it's going.

Americans Are Moving Less, And Not Because of COVID

It's a trend that's decades in the making. Americans aren't changing jobs as much as they used to.

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