Rajshree Agarwal is a professor of economics, the Rudolph Lamone Chair of Entrepreneurship and Strategy, and the Director of the Ed Snider Center for Enterprise and Markets at the

University of Maryland The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland, United States. Founded in 1856, UMD is the flagship institution of the Univ ...

. She "studies the evolution of industries, firms and individual careers, as fostered by the twin engines of innovation and enterprise."

Education

Agarwal received her Masters of Arts in economics from the

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in 1988 and her PhD in economics from

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in 1994.

Career

From 2001 to 2010, Agarwal was a professor of Strategic Management at the

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College of Business. She has also taught at the

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Influence and awards

Agarwal is the author or co-author of more than 150 articles in consumer-facing publications such as ''

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'' and ''

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'', and in academic journals such as ''The

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'' and the ''

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''. She is also the author of more than 60 studies which, cumulatively, have been cited more than 10,000 times. Agarwal was awarded the University Scholar Award at the University of Illinois and the Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Award at the University of Maryland.

References

External links

Dr. Agarwal’s personal website

Social Science Research Network author page
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