Smith Business Magazine: Special Silver Jubilee Edition - Magazine - Page 30
The Best Faculty
Roland Rust
Albert S.
Kyle
Faculty By The Numbers
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globally for the most
professors on the business
and management list
Research.com, 2023
Smith scholars named
among the world’s
“Best Scientists”
Research.com, 2023
current & emeritus
professors among the
most-cited worldwide
Mr. Smith’s investment
allowed the school to recruit
some of the best minds in
the world. Several faculty
chairs bear the Smith name—
endowments that help the
school compete for top faculty
with the academically elite
private schools.
“The Smith gift completely
transformed the business
school into the research
powerhouse that it is
today,” said Roland Rust,
Distinguished University
Professor, the David Bruce
Smith Chair in Marketing,
and one of the world’s most
renowned experts on service
marketing. He joined the
school in 2000 and is founder
and executive director of
the Center for Excellence
in Service.
“Many of the school’s most
illustrious faculty were hired
using the Smith money, and
this vaulted the school into
the top echelon of research
business schools,” said Rust.
Albert S. Kyle holds
the Charles E. Smith Chair
Professor of Finance (named
for Mr. Smith’s father). His
research changed the thinking
in academia on the way
markets operate and had a
major in昀氀uence on the advent
of digital trading. He was
lured away from Duke
University, thanks to Mr.
Smith’s generous investment.
“He was the greatest donor
a professor could hope for,
precisely because he wanted us
to do quality research, but he
didn't want to tell us how to do
it,” Kyle said.
In the two-and-a-half
decades since the naming
gift, the school’s faculty
has grown to 271 and is
consistently recognized for
its research strength. Many
Smith professors have multiple
lifetime achievement awards
for their research contributions.
Smith professors are
also making big impacts in the
wider world, with research
that informs policy decisions,
improves healthcare, drives
innovation and takes on some
of the biggest global challenges.
In the last year, management
professor Evan Starr’s research
on noncompete agreements
helped spur the U.S. Federal
Trade Commission’s proposal
to ban them.
Meanwhile, 昀椀nance professor
Lemma Senbet is helping
the Biden Administration
strengthen ties with Africa. And
information systems professor
Louiqa Raschid is leading
a UMD team on a National
Science Foundation-funded
research project to combat
future pandemics.
PLoS Biology, 2022
SMITH BUSINESS: SILVER JUBILEE EDITION /
fall 2023
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