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Preparing
Next-Generation Managers
The management & organization (M&O)
department at the Robert H. Smith School
of Business, University of Maryland,
consists of 20 core faculty including
tenure-track, visiting, and teaching
professors. The group's interests and
responsibilities cover the following
areas: strategy, entrepreneurship,
organizational behavior, and human
resources.
M&O faculty are proud of the
department's very strong track record in
research as well as teaching. As a
group, we are particularly interested in
and excited by topics such as innovation
and entrepreneurship, intangible assets,
management of uncertainty, and social
networks. A recent analysis of
publications in the most prestigious
strategy, OB, and HR journals indicated
that, on a worldwide basis, M&O ranked
among the top 10 over the period
1997-2003 and among the top 5 over the
period 2001-2003.
Some other indicators of the strength
and scholarly reputation of M&O faculty
include:
- five Fellows, including a past
Dean of Fellows, of the Academy of
Management;
- Past President & Current
President-Elect of Academy of
Management;
- two members of the 11-member board
of governors of the Academy of
Management;
- six University of Maryland
Distinguished Scholar-Teachers, a
campus-wide recognition;
- multiple editorships and editorial
board memberships on highly prestigious
academic journals;
- multiple best paper awards from
prestigious journals and academies;
- at the 2003 annual meeting of
Academy of Management, M&O was among the
Top 12 schools most represented on the
program agenda with over 60% of all M&O
faculty and over 60% of all M&O PhD
students presenting papers at this
conference.
M&O also has a vibrant PhD program
which is getting stronger each year.
Some of the schools where PhD graduates
from the M&O department are currently
serving as faculty include UC-Berkeley,
Cornell, Virginia, Wisconsin-Madison,
UT-Austin, Minnesota-Twin Cities,
Vanderbilt, Instituo di Empressa
(Spain), and Hong Kong University of
Science and Technology.
M&O faculty also believe in
excellence in teaching. Over the last
several years, as a department, M&O
faculty have earned the highest average
teaching ratings across all departments
every single semester. It is our belief
that, aside from having a group of
excellent faculty, part of the
explanation for why M&O excels at both
research and teaching has to do with a
culture of collaboration where
colleagues are expected to add
intellectual synergy to each other. It
is our hope that we will be able to
continue this cultural strength as we
become a larger group.
We in M&O are also proud of being
part of an extremely strong business
school that continues to become
stronger. The Smith Business School has
leading edge MBA and undergraduate
programs, a rapidly expanding portfolio
of executive education programs
including EMBA programs in both the US
and China, as well as a strong doctoral
program. In its most recent survey,
BusinessWeek
ranked the Smith MBA as among the
Top 28. A January 2003 survey by
Financial Times ranked the Smith
School as #23 worldwide in MBA programs
and #7 worldwide in terms of faculty
research.
Given the Smith School's location in
the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Area,
faculty and staff at Smith enjoy not
only a strong institutional environment
but also the pleasures of living in a
vibrant and leading global city which is
very cosmopolitan, rich in world-class
museums and the performing arts,
architecturally delightful, full of
greenery with the beautiful Potomac
River flowing right through the city,
within one to two hours of driving
distance from not only beaches but also
ski slopes, and home to some of the
country's best public and private
schools.
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