Faculty Awards
Cliff Rossi, professor of the practice and director of the Smith Enterprise Risk Consortium, received a Smith Teaching/Learning Innovation Grant for 2024-25 to advance innovative, data-driven teaching practices that support the School’s strategic focus on smart learning environments.
Margrét Bjarnadóttir received the Knight’s Cross of the Icelandic Order of the Falcon for her pioneering research in pay equity and her significant contributions to HR analytics and workplace equality initiatives.
Bruce Golden was designated a Fellow of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS).
Trevor Foulk received the Society of Industrial Organizational Psychology (SIOP) early career award in Science.
Rebecca Ratner has been elected President of the Association for Consumer Research. She will serve a 3-year term, serving as President-Elect in 2024, President in 2025, and Past President in 2026.
On January 25, 2024, Smith Professor Anil Gupta (along with his co-author Haiyan Wang) were the invited guests of the Strategy Imagination Forum, a fireside chat on “China and India: What Next” hosted by Strategic Management Society, the premier academic body of business strategy scholars worldwide. In October 2023, SMS honored Gupta with its annual C.K. Prahalad Award for Scholarly Impact on Practice.
Mary Harms received the 2023 Direct Marketing Association of Washington (DMAW) Educational Foundation 2023 O’Hara Leadership Award.
Albert "Pete" Kyle received the Wharton-Jacobs Levy Prize for his research on market microstructure, based on his 1985 Econometrica paper, “Continuous Auctions and Insider Trading.”
Anil K. Gupta received the 2023 CK Prahalad Award for Scholarly Impact on Practice from the Strategic Management Society.
Russ Wermers won the top prize in the International Centre for Pension Management 2023 Research Awards.
Bruce L. Golden was nominated and selected as the recipient of the Glover-Klingman Prize for the best paper published in Networks: An International Journal in 2022. The prize was announced in December 2023.
Bobby Zhou is one of the 12 recipients of the 2023 Marketing Science Service Awards for their premier journal, Marketing Science.
Roland Rust was named one of the top 86 most impactful researchers in business and economics worldwide, the only University of Maryland professor on the list. The list was assembled using an objective analysis of citations and other variables, by Clarivate, 2023. He was also ranked 88th in the world in Best Scientists in Business and Management by Research.com (top active researcher in any field at the Smith School), based on h-index in the business discipline. Also ranked #52 in the US across all business fields. Awarded Research.com Business and Management in United States Leader Award, 2023.
Oliver Schlake, working with Stephanie Lansing in UMD College of Agriculture and Natural Resources and a multidisciplinary team, received a $5 million NSF grant to develop NourishNet, featuring Quantum Nose, a portable and user-friendly food quality sensor that can detect early-stage food spoilage, and FoodLoops, a real-time app to optimize surplus food distribution to food insecure people.
Articles
In spring 2017, dozens of Finance Fellows tackled a case entitled “INFINITI HR – Target or Acquirer?” for their annual Emerging CFOs Case Competition held at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business.
Upward mobility for the masses starts with enterprising individuals who know how to harness the human potential within market systems, Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Rajshree Agarwal said on Oct. 19, 2017, at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business.
A preeminent professional organization in technology has selected Smith School research professor Sandor Boyson and CIO Holly Mann for its inaugural Cybersecurity Award for Practice.
Professor Evan Starr at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business was awarded the 2017 Research Communicator Impact Award from the University of Maryland.
Research into data analytics by marketing professors Michel Wedel and P.K. Kannan at the University of Maryland’s Robert H.
Research into managing consumer word-of-mouth communication by David Godes, professor and chair of the Marketing Department at the University of Maryland’s Robert H.
The Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business is pleased to announce that Charles E. Olson, a professor in the logistics, business and public policy department, received the second annual CIBER Award for Teaching Innovation in Global Learning.
The Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business is pleased to announce that Mark Wellman, clinical professor of management and organization, is the recipient of the inaugural CIBER Award for Teaching Innovation in Global Learning.
Mark Wellman, clinical professor and director of the College Park Scholars Business, Society & Economy (BSE) program, was presented with the “The Face of Their Field” Award at the Sixth Annual Faculty/Staff Appreciation ceremony organized by students and st
Wendy Moe, an associate professor of marketing at the University of Maryland’s Smith School of Business, has won the 2014 Robert D. Buzzell Marketing Science Institute Best Paper Award for her research on social media intelligence.