Executive MBA student K.J. Hughes ’14, a veteran of the sports and entertainment industry, learned early that success hinges on one thing: Relationships. “All businesses are interrelated through relationships,” he says. “As long as you can navigate putting together resources and using your communications skills and your networking skills to be able to find answers when you’re stuck, that’s really the linchpin to the success that I’ve had over the course of my entire life.”

COLLEGE PARK, Md. (Jan. 28, 2019) — The University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business has appointed professor Wendy W. Moe as associate dean of master’s programs. In her new role she will serve on the dean’s senior leadership team and oversee all MBA and specialty master’s programs.

Michel Wedel, a marketing professor from the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, will receive a career achievement award on Feb. 23, 2019, at the American Marketing Association Winter Academic Conference in Austin, Texas. The Irwin/McGraw-Hill Distinguished Marketing Educator Award recognizes sustained contributions to marketing over an extended period of time. Only 35 educators have received the honor since the inaugural presentation in 1985.

The Marketing Science Institute (MSI) has named Bobby Zhou, assistant professor of marketing at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business, as a member of its 2019 Class of Young Scholars. The program recognizes remarkable marketing scholars that the organization believes will be the leaders of the next generation of marketing academics.

Skeptics pushed back in 1998 when marketing professor P.K. Kannan introduced a digital content revenue model at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business. “This is pure science fiction,” one peer reviewer wrote. “This is so futuristic that it doesn’t have any basis in reality.”

Leadership starts with understanding people, keynote speaker Dana Ritzcovan ’93 told graduates on May 19, 2018, at the undergraduate commencement celebration for the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business. “We hire employees at organizations, yet human beings show up instead,” said Ritzcovan, group managing director and head of human resources for Global Wealth Management at UBS, a global financial services company.

Wendy Moe, professor of marketing and director of the MS in marketing analytics at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business, has been named co-editor of the Journal of Interactive Marketing. 

All faculty, program directors, deans, department chairs, alumni, and students of the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business are invited to nominate deserving Smith School faculty members (i.e., tenured, tenure-track, clinical, Professor of the Practice, lecturer, adjunct, or PhD student) for one of several teaching awards. Nominations are due by March 16, 2018, and awards will be presented in May.

Roland Rust, Distinguished University Professor and David Bruce Smith Chair in Marketing, addressed “Artificial Intelligence in Service” as a keynote speaker for the European Marketing Academy's 8th Regional Conference, Sept. 20-22, 2017, in Timisoara, Romania. Rust, a fellow of the academy, was the leadoff speaker for the conference, themed “Bridging the Marketing Theory/Practice Gap and Competitiveness of the New Europe.”

Wendy Moe, professor of marketing and academic director of the Master of Science in Marketing Analytics program at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, has been named co-editor-designate of the Journal of Interactive Marketing (JIM).