Smith Professor Leads Global Academy
Smith School professor Debra Shapiro started a one-year term as president of the Academy of Management during the professional association’s annual meeting Aug. 7-11, 2015, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Shapiro is Smith’s third faculty member to hold the position. Smith professor Kathryn Bartol served as president in 1984-85, and Smith professor emeritus Ken G. Smith led the academy in 2006-07.
Jack Dorsey, Two-Timing CEO (of Twitter and Square)
SMITH BRAIN TRUST -- Twitter's new CEO, Jack Dorsey, is wasting no time in making changes: This week the social networking company laid off 336 people, or 8 percent of its workforce. He also recently introduced "Moments," curated edited collections of tweets intended to attract new users; and made new overtures to advertisers.
'Core Competence' Lessons from Apple, Microsoft
SMITH BRAIN TRUST — "Core competence (as a bedrock management principle) is dead," Fast Company proclaimed in 2013. But at least one Forbes writer disagreed. "It has not died," he wrote.
Deutsche Bank ‘Cleaning Slate’ for $7B Loss
SMITH BRAIN TRUST -- Europe’s biggest investment bank is bracing for a near-$7 billion third-quarter loss, and the fallout is taking shape.
Computers Match Doctors in Predicting Patient Discharges
SMITH BRAIN TRUST -- A computer can do as good a job of predicting how many patients will be discharged from a hospital unit on a given day as doctors and nurses can, according to new research from the Robert H. Smith School of Business, at the University of Maryland. In some cases, the computer does even better.
In a Driverless Future, Which Companies Will Thrive (or Die)?
SMITH BRAIN TRUST -- In Tokyo this week, Toyota put journalists in a modified Lexus GS equipped with self-driving technology. On its own, the car entered a highway, drove for a bit and navigated an off-ramp.
Diversity in Business
An upcoming Smith School conversation on diversity pinpoints how the Fortune 500 can achieve racial diversity on corporate boards. The Diversity Fireside Chat event will feature John W. Rogers, Jr., CEO and chief investment officer for Ariel Investments, and hailed as “one of the most powerful” African Americans on Wall Street by Black Enterprise.
Smith Student Draws High Honor at Global Marketing Research Summit
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – Oct. 7, 2015 – Marketing PhD student Seoungwoo Lee of the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business has captured the 2015 Shankar-Spiegel Dissertation Proposal Award from the nonprofit organization Marketing EDGE.
C-BERC Faculty Receive National Institute of Justice Grant
Center for the Study of Business Ethics, Regulation, and Crime (C-BERC) director Sally S. Simpson, Professor, Criminology and Criminal Justice; faculty advisory board member Debra Shapiro, Professor, Management and Organization; Christine Beckman, Associate Professor, Management and Organization; and Gerald Martin, Associate Professor of Finance and Real Estate, American University; received a grant from the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) for their work on Board Diversity, Corporate Malfeasance and Legal Sanctions.
The Science of Retweets
SMITH BRAIN TRUST -- What's the best time to tweet, to ensure maximum audience engagement? Researchers at the Robert H.