@SmithSchool Named Best B-School Twitter Feed

@SmithSchool Named Best B-School Twitter Feed

The University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business was named the best business school Twitter feed for 2011 by “B2BTOY” (B2B Twitterer of the Year). This year’s award winners in the various categories included Lockheed Martin, Maersk, and Toyota, among others. Winners are nominated by Twitter users and selected by a panel of 11 judges. The judges and competition sponsors represent several top advertising, marketing and social media agencies. Last year the Smith School was a runner-up in the category.

“Each day, we tweet about school news, events and expert faculty commentary on timely topics,” said Alissa Arford, director of online strategy at the Smith School. “Twitter is adding a great new interactive dimension to our marketing communications strategy. I can’t think of a better place to ‘tweet’ for than a top-ranked business school. You have brilliant and diverse people in a dynamic environment with exciting events that make for an endless variety of tweets!”

Currently, the Smith School has more than 2,000 followers on the @SmithSchool Twitter feed. You don’t have to be actively using Twitter to follow tweets. Check out all of the popular school Twitter feeds listed here:

Be sure to also visit the Smith School's Facebook, YouTube, and LinkedIn pages, along with various community blogs. Links to all of the Smith School social media pages are easily accessed via the icons below the left navigation on the home page and on news stories.

If you have any questions about social media activities at the Smith School, send e-mail to Alissa Arford at aarford@rhsmith.umd.edu.

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University of Maryland Smith School of Business Faculty Named Top Scholar of Management

University of Maryland Smith School of Business Faculty
Named Top Scholar of Management

College Park, Md. – March 15, 2012 – Hui Liao, associate professor of management and organization at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, was honored with the 2012 Cummings Scholarly Achievement Award. The prestigious award is one of the highest professional honors in the field of organizational behavior, given annually by the Organizational Behavior Division of the Academy of Management to recognize outstanding early- to mid-career scholarly achievement.

Liao is a prolific researcher in the areas of organizational behavior, leadership and human resources. This is not the first time her work has been recognized – in 2010, she won the similar award “Scholarly Achievement Award” from the Academy of Management’s Human Resources Division, and in 2009 she was recognized with the “Distinguished Early Career Contributions Award” from the Society for Industrial-Organizational Psychology.

“Professor Liao has quickly become one of the top researchers in her field and a tremendous contributor to the strength of the management faculty at the Smith School,” said G. “Anand” Anandalingam, dean of the Robert H. Smith School of Business. “Our faculty are truly shaping the future of business with their research, which they translate to the classroom to help our students leave here to become leaders armed with the latest management knowledge.”

Liao’s work has appeared in the field’s top journals, including the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Organization Science, and Personnel Psychology. She has conducted field research with small businesses and multinational corporations in various cultural settings, including the United States, mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Europe and the UAE.

Liao currently serves as an associate editor for Personnel Psychology, a top-tier journal in management and applied psychology. In addition to her research accomplishments, she has also been consistently recognized for her exemplary teaching by the Smith School.

Before joining the Smith School, Liao was on the faculties of the Rutgers University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She received her PhD with concentrations in organizational behavior and human resources from the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management, and her BA in international economics from the Renmin University of China.

About the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business
The Robert H. Smith School of Business is an internationally recognized leader in management education and research. One of 12 colleges and schools at the University of Maryland, College Park, the Smith School offers undergraduate, full-time and part-time MBA, executive MBA, executive MS, PhD and executive education programs, as well as outreach services to the corporate community. The school offers its degree, custom and certification programs in learning locations in North America and Asia.

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