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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

December 1, 2011
Smith School’s Roland Rust Earns National Recognition

Roland T. Rust has garnered the 2012 American Marketing Association /Irwin/McGraw-Hill Distinguished Marketing Educator Award.

Announced by the AMA, the award honors living marketing educators for distinguished service and outstanding contributions in marketing education.

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July 4, 2011
Professor Emeritus Ken G. Smith Receives National Educator Award from Academy of Management

The Academy of Management will honor Professor Emeritus Ken G. Smith with its Distinguished Educator Award in San Antonio next month. The Academy of Management, the oldest and largest scholarly management association in the world with nearly 20,000 members, selected Smith for his work developing doctoral students and junior faculty.

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September 1, 2010
Professor Curt Grimm Receives Prestigious University Award for Excellence in Research & Teaching

Join Us for Dr. Grimm’s Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Lecture on Oct. 7, 2010

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August 26, 2010
University of Maryland Business Professor Honored with Prestigious Accounting Award

College Park, Md. –  August 26, 2010 – The University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business today announced Stephen E.

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August 11, 2008
University of Maryland Marketing Professor Wins Top Award

College Park, Md. – August 11, 2008 – Michel Wedel, PepsiCo Professor of Consumer Science at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, recently received the American Marketing Association’s Gilbert A. Churchill Award for lifetime achievement in the academic study of marketing research. Dr.

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June 24, 2008
University of Maryland Business School Professor Wins Top Marketing Award

College Park, Md. – June 24, 2008 – P.K. Kannan, Harvey Sanders Associate Professor of Marketing at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, has won the John D.C. Little Award for co-authoring the paper "New Product Development Under Channel Acceptance," published in the March/April issue of Marketing Science.

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January 24, 2007
Faculty at University of Maryland's Smith School of Business Win Smith Breeden Award

College Park, Md. January 24, 2007 - The American Finance Association has honored two professors at the University of Maryland's Robert H.

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February 21, 2006
University of Maryland Business School Professor Wins Prestigious Von Humboldt Award

College Park, Md. – February 21, 2006 – Today the University of Marylands Robert H. Smith School of Business announced that Dilip Madan, professor of finance, has been selected to receive a 2006 Alexander von Humboldt Research Award in mathematics. Humboldt Awards are considered among the highest honors given to internationally recognized scholars.

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February 20, 2004
Smith School Professor Receives $500,000 National Science Foundation Award

Katherine Stewart, an assistant professor in the Decision and Information Technologies Department at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, has received a $500,000 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

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November 30, 2002
Gannon Receives Landmark Award

"To be a top-class business school you must have a top-class international component," said Martin Gannon, professor of management and founding director of the Smith School's Center for Global Business, as he received the university's prestigious Landmark Award.

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