About Snider Focus

Our cutting-edge research spans four key areas:

  • Business & Society: Insights into the interface of business with society and economic institutions.
  • Finance & Regulation: Impact of policy and regulation on business practices and unintended consequences of government intervention (e.g. Dodd-Frank Act; Health Care mandates)
  • Talent & Leadership: Causes and consequences of human enterprise and implications at individual, team, organizational and economy levels.
  • Technology & Innovation: Causes and consequences of technology and innovation in terms of socio-economic progress and market-based solutions for social grand challenges.
Snider Focus: Spring 2022
2021 Annual Report
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About The Ed Snider Center for Enterprise and Markets

The Ed Snider Center for Enterprise and Markets, housed at University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, engages in world-class, interdisciplinary research on the conditions that support human enterprise and well-functioning markets. We utilize world-class research to develop actionable information and tools that benefit individuals and organizations in a rapidly changing world.

  • We PREPARE the world for business by making scholarly research relevant for students, business practitioners, and the public.
  • We BELIEVE that social progress is born of individuals who, driven by self-motivation, passion, and a positive approach to trading value for value, make the world a better place.
  • We EXPLORE the fields of talent development and management, radically evolving marketplaces and industries, and economic strategy.
  • We FOSTER an understanding of how businesses create prosperity and contribute to the wellbeing of individuals and society.
  • We SUPPORT public engagement and discourse on markets and enterprise.
  • We PARTNER with leading firms and non-profit organizations to address industry issues through research and training.
  • We CREATE quality media for a dynamic, 21 st century education landscape.

The Ed Snider Center invites you to join us in our efforts to inspire upward mobility, progress, and broadly shared prosperity.