How Do You Recover from a Flood?
Niratcha Tungtisanont's research at the University of Maryland examines how industrialization and internet use impact income and recovery after floods. Her findings highlight the importance of communication and community collaboration in effective disaster recovery efforts.
Are You Really Having Fun?
Consumers make more hedonic choices when their preferences are visible to others, so that they can promote the image that they are having fun — whether or not they really are.
How Can Small Businesses Tackle Big Data Challenges?
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.
How Can Leaders Recover After a Fall?
If leaders take certain steps, stakeholders in their organizations will continue to believe in their legitimacy even after they lose status.
Is Your Boss Too Busy To Be Fair?
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.
How Can Luxury Brands Deter Counterfeits?
Luxury brands use legal threats and guilt campaigns to deter people from buying knockoff products. But Maryland Smith research explores a better way.
How Can Leaders Transform Their Organizations?
Transformational leaders can inspire individual followers to go beyond their own self-interest and benefit the group, Maryland Smith research shows.
Is It Time for a Change in MBA Education?
Something is missing from the curriculum at many business schools, and that is learning how to think about the long-term impact of decisions
Are Online Advertisers Paying Too Much?
A new algorithm developed at Maryland Smith allows companies to stretch their budgets and optimize results when buying online display ads.
Can We Build Better Prediction Machines?
Attempting to conduct predictive modeling from sparse, binary data sets is complicated. Maryland Smith's Jessica M. Clark looks for a better way.