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Balaji Padmanabhan
Dean's Professor of Decisions, Operations & Information Technologies, Director, Center for Artificial Intelligence in Business
Robert H. Smith School of Business
Roland Rust
Distinguished University Professor, David Bruce Smith Chair in Marketing, Executive Director, Center for Excellence in Service
Robert H. Smith School of Business
P.K. Kannan
Associate Dean of Strategic Initiatives, Dean's Chair in Marketing Science
Robert H. Smith School of Business
Michael Wedel
Distinguished University Professor and PepsiCo Chair in Consumer Science
Robert H. Smith School of Business
David Kass
Clinical Professor of Finance
Robert H. Smith School of Business
Clifford Rossi
Executive-in-Residence and Professor of the Practice
Robert H. Smith School of Business
Albert “Pete” Kyle
Charles E. Smith Chair Professor of Finance
Robert H. Smith School of Business
Kislaya Prasad
Research Professor, Academic Director, Center for Global Business
Robert H. Smith School of Business
Anil K. Gupta
The Michael D. Dingman Chair in Strategy and Entrepreneurship
Robert H. Smith School of Business
Jie Zhang
Professor of Marketing and the Harvey Sanders Fellow of Retail Management
Robert H. Smith School of Business
Progyan Basu
Clinical Professor of Accounting and Information Assurance
Robert H. Smith School of Business
Margrét Bjarnadóttir
Associate Professor of Management Science and Statistics
Robert H. Smith School of Business
Prabhudev Konana
Dean
Robert H. Smith School of Business
David A. Kirsch
Associate Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship
Robert H. Smith School of Business
Evan Starr
Assistant Professor of Management & Organization
Robert H. Smith School of Business
Philip T. Evers
Associate Professor of Logistics Management
Robert H. Smith School of Business
Rajshree Agarwal
The Rudolph Lamone Professor of Entrepreneurship and Strategy and Director of the Ed Snider Center for Enterprise and Markets
Robert H. Smith School of Business
Henry C. Boyd III
Clinical Professor of Marketing, Consultant and Attorney at Law
Robert H. Smith School of Business
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Research Reveals Negative Effects of Hotel App Adoption on Customer Spending
Companies have often considered app adoption among their customers to have a positive impact on customer spending. According to new research from Maryland Smith’s P.K. Kannan, higher app adoption among hotel chains could be linked to lower spending...
University of Maryland Launches Quantum Business Incubator
The Quantum Startup Foundry will support new businesses in the quantum technology field.
University of Maryland Launches National Network to Tackle Small Business Displacement
JPMorgan Chase funds initiative to combat the effects of commercial gentrification and COVID-19 in neighborhoods across the United States
UMD Names Prabhudev Konana Dean of Robert H. Smith School of Business
Prabhudev Konana, Ph.D. will assume the role of Dean effective January 2, 2021
Analysis of U.S. Labor Data Suggests 'Reskilling' Workers for a 'Feeling Economy'
Artificial Intelligence soon will take over the "Thinking Economy" pushing more humans into "people skills" jobs, researchers say
UMD Study Finds Social Tags Highly Accurate, Reliable Among Consumer Perception Metrics
Research presents a new approach for harvesting rich, qualitative information on brands from user-generated social tags.
Five UMD Alumni Make Forbes 2018 "30 Under 30" List
Five University of Maryland alumni were names in Forbes' 2018 "30 Under 30" lists.
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