Smith Brain Trust

For small to midsized businesses, like their larger counterparts, success correlates with being adept in an interlinked web of financial entities and networks, supply chains and ecosystems.

If leaders take certain steps, stakeholders in their organizations will continue to believe in their legitimacy even after they lose status.

In what was heralded as an encouraging step, Volvo last week announced that the margins on its electric vehicles are set to match those of combustion engines by 2025. But, was it really a milestone in the electric car evolution?

Think your boss is a jerk because he or she treated you unfairly? It’s possible your manager just has too much to do, Maryland Smith research shows.

Luxury brands use legal threats and guilt campaigns to deter people from buying knockoff products. But Maryland Smith research explores a better way.

The marketing was innovative. It was clever. It was bold enough to warrant coverage in The Wall Street Journal. It was also ... creepy.

Transformational leaders can inspire individual followers to go beyond their own self-interest and benefit the group, Maryland Smith research shows.

Something is missing from the curriculum at many business schools, and that is learning how to think about the long-term impact of decisions

A new algorithm developed at Maryland Smith allows companies to stretch their budgets and optimize results when buying online display ads.

Attempting to conduct predictive modeling from sparse, binary data sets is complicated. Maryland Smith's Jessica M. Clark looks for a better way.