The INFORMS Society for Marketing Science (ISMS) has named marketing PhD student Seoungwoo Lee of the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business as a winner in its ISMS Doctoral Dissertation Competition for 2015.

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — Black Friday in 2015 is increasingly symbolic. “While the day after Thanksgiving still holds special significance in the U.S.

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — Can you catch bad health habits from your peers? How about from your subordinates or even your boss? Yes, according to new work from the Robert H.

Congratulations to David Maimon, associate director of C-BERC and Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, on winning the 2015 Young Scholars Award from the White-Collar Crime Research Consortium of the National White-Collar Crime Center. 

For a second consecutive time, Anil K. Gupta, the Michael D. Dingman Chair in Strategy and Entrepreneurship for the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, has been named to Thinkers50 -- widely recognized as the first, and definitive, compilation of the world’s 50 foremost business thinkers.

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — Last week, Fed chairwoman Janet Yellen said that raising interest rates before the end of the year was "a live possibility," given what she described as the relatively strong performance by the economy.

Technology is changing the education landscape and business schools are working to adapt and embrace the opportunities. In this edition of Smith Business Close-Up with the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, host Jeff Salkin sits down with Joyce Russell to talk about the innovations in education and her new role leading the charge at the Smith School.

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — Are today's colleges going the way of Blockbuster after the rise of Netflix and streaming video? Things might not be quite so dire. But Henry C. Lucas, Jr., chair of the Department of Decision, Operations and Information Technologies at the University of Maryland's Robert H.

Supply chain experts at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business have spurred the implementation of a new system that will accelerate trade and save U.S. businesses money and time. Soon, the current paper-based system required by the U.S. government to import or export cargo will give way to the new “single window,” electronic data collection process, dubbed the International Trade Data System. It becomes mandatory in February 2016.

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — Gaming as a customer engagement tool has been around since the invention of dice and playing cards. But Oliver Schlake, a clinical professor at the University of Maryland’s Robert H.