Maryland Smith professor Peng Huang received the Sandy Slaughter Early Career Award from the INFORMS Information Systems Society during the group's annual meeting Nov. 4-7 in Phoenix. The award recognizes individuals on a path toward making outstanding intellectural contributions to the information systems discipline. 

Ritu Agarwal, Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Research at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business, has received a Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. The award represents the institution's highest honor to alumni who have achieved exemplary success in their respective fields.

Lemma Senbet, the William E. Mayer Chair Professor of Finance at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business, was recently appointed to serve on the advisory council of the Ethiopian Diaspora Trust Fund (EDTF). Senbet received the appointment from Abiy Ahmed, Ethiopia's prime minister.

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.

Bruce Golden, the France-Merrick Chair in Management Science at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business, has been named as the recipient of the George E. Kimball Medal.

New Programming Includes Externships, Business Language Training COLLEGE PARK, Md. (Oct. 2, 2018) — A $1.2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education will allow the Center for Global Business at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business to expand its portfolio of externships, language training and other programs through 2022.

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.”

Debra Shapiro, Clarice Smith Professor of Management & Organization at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business, is among the top 100 most influential authors in organizational behavior, human resource management, strategy and general management as cited in textbooks.

Curt Grimm, the Charles A. Taff Chair of Economics & Strategy at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, traveled to Canada in June 2018 to deliver a keynote address at “the other” Smith School of Business — Queen’s University’s Stephen J.R. Smith School of Business in Kingston, Ontario. Grimm and former UMD Smith School PhD student Ming-Jer Chen, now an endowed chair at the University of Virginia, were the featured speakers at the Competitive Dynamics Conference.

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.