Thought Leadership
The lifeblood of a business school is its faculty, and at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business our faculty members are inspiring, supportive and world-class. We are attuned to a marketplace that values innovation, entrepreneurialism, analytical thinking and hard work. Our teaching and research equips students with the wisdom of business scholarship rooted in the experiential lessons of the marketplace.
March 5, 2019
Why There's An App For That
A new study examines what happens when a platform owner enters the market with a product that directly competes against rivals in the app store. Does it help or hurt innovation?
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Why There's An App For That
March 5, 2019
The Evolution Of Applied Psychology
To mark its 100th anniversary in 2017, Maryland Smith's Gilad Chen explored the evolution of the research featured in the Journal of Applied Psychology.
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The Evolution Of Applied Psychology
March 5, 2019
How Do You Win in Online Auctions?
The burgeoning secondary market of online business-to-business (B2B) auction platforms connect retailers to deeper pools of buyers for their unsold or returned inventory.
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How Do You Win in Online Auctions?
March 4, 2019
Do Public Firms Get a Bad Rap?
Pressure to deliver quarterly returns can drive managerial myopia. Recent studies link the short-termism to Wall Street culture and dynamics. But a deeper analysis tells a different story.
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Do Public Firms Get a Bad Rap?
March 3, 2019
How Do You Win Over a Tough Audience?
Reluctant consumers have three main ways to resist advertising. They can avoid it, contest it or look within themselves for empowerment. But marketers have tricks of their own.
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How Do You Win Over a Tough Audience?
March 2, 2019
What Makes You Keep Reading?
Online content creators who want to keep people reading should start by making them angry or anxious, Maryland Smith research shows.
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What Makes You Keep Reading?
March 1, 2019
Why Is It So Hard To Close the Gender Pay Gap?
Equal pay for equal work. It’s a simple notion, but one that’s surprisingly hard to implement without buy-in from upper management and quantitative tools for decision support.
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Why Is It So Hard To Close the Gender Pay Gap?
February 28, 2019
A Tool for Closing the Gender Pay Gap
Equal pay for equal work is a simple notion, but surprisingly hard to implement without buy-in from upper management and quantitative tools for decision support.
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A Tool for Closing the Gender Pay Gap
February 26, 2019
How To Tax the Rich, And Do It Smarter
What is the best way to tax the wealthy in America? Maryland Smith's Kislaya Prasad offers two guiding principles.
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How To Tax the Rich, And Do It Smarter
February 21, 2019
Stop Investing in What You Know
Be careful about investing in something that seems exciting because you use it, entrepreneurship professors Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch write in their new book.
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Stop Investing in What You Know