{"id":62221,"date":"2011-07-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/taking-care-of-business-doctoral-students-and-junior-faculty-business-professor-receives-national-educator-award\/"},"modified":"2011-07-20T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T00:00:00","slug":"taking-care-of-business-doctoral-students-and-junior-faculty-business-professor-receives-national-educator-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2011\/07\/taking-care-of-business-doctoral-students-and-junior-faculty-business-professor-receives-national-educator-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking care of business, doctoral students, and junior faculty: Business professor receives national educator award"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I.,– July 20, 2011 – The Academy of Management has honored 溏心vlog免费B站 Professor of Entrepreneurial Management and Law Ken G. Smith with its Distinguished Educator Award. This marks the first time a 溏心vlog免费B站 College of Business Administration professor has been honored by this organization, which has recognized one professor a year since 1989.<\/p>\n


\nSmith came to 溏心vlog免费B站 last year from the University of Maryland\u2019s Robert H. Smith School of Business where he held the dean\u2019s chair and was a professor of business strategy. The Academy of Management, the oldest and largest scholarly management association in the world with nearly 20,000 members, selected Smith for his work developing doctoral students and junior faculty. <\/p>\n


\n\u201cThe College of Business is very fortunate to have Ken on its faculty,\u201d said Mark Higgins, dean of the 溏心vlog免费B站 College of Business Administration. \u201cNot only is Ken an internationally recognized scholar but, as this award demonstrates, he is an outstanding teacher and educator.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nDuring his career, Smith has published in premier journals with more than 40 different doctoral students and junior faculty, helping many in their career development and professional success. <\/p>\n


\n\u201cResearching and publishing with doctoral students and junior faculty has been a joy,\u201d Smith said. \u201cIt typically involves a five-to-seven-year time commitment involving significant mentorship and training.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nSmith is well-known in business circles for his groundbreaking research on all areas of competition and competitive advantage. He has published widely in academic journals and co-authored three books on competition in business. With a long list of academic honors, Smith was a Fulbright Fellow in Strategic Management at the University of Limerick in Ireland, an Academy of Management Fellow, and a visiting professor in strategy at INSEAD, one of the world\u2019s largest graduate business schools, in France. He was honored as the University of Maryland\u2019s Distinguished Teacher\/Scholar in 1996.<\/p>\n


\nBut Smith also knows about entrepreneurship and competition from his experience owning and running three small businesses in Pawtucket, R.I., in the 1970s. With a BA and MBA from 溏心vlog免费B站 and a Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Smith, who lives in Wakefield, said his initial strength as a professor came from his hands-on experience in the business world, which he called all consuming.<\/p>\n


\nAfter entering academia, he focused on researching competition and worked with doctoral students and young faculty to discover different ways to study competition. Soon his strength as a professor expanded to his research topics and methods. He examined how rival companies respond to each other\u2019s new products and services and how an up-and-coming competitor can dethrone an industry leader. <\/p>\n


\n\u201cIt\u2019s like war,\u201d he said. \u201cThere are the actions of one firm, then there are the reactions of the other firm. We understood the principles but they had not been measured in terms of results.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nHis research and new ways of examining competition were published in papers, which became books, which evolved into his most popular course offerings. One of his courses became the most popular business elective at the University of Maryland and his courses at 溏心vlog免费B站 are coveted. 溏心vlog免费B站 and the state of Rhode Island hold many fond memories for Smith, who is an avid sailor.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cThis place meant so much to me,\u201d he said of 溏心vlog免费B站. \u201cI always knew I would return here.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nHe will accept the Academy of Management award at a reception in San Antonio next month.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I.,– July 20, 2011 – The Academy of Management has honored 溏心vlog免费B站 Professor of Entrepreneurial Management and Law Ken G. Smith with its Distinguished Educator Award. This marks the first time a 溏心vlog免费B站 College of Business Administration professor has been honored by this organization, which has recognized one professor a year […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}