Friday Research Workshops
Each Friday during the school year, the Information & Decision Sciences Department hosts a seminar discussion on new and in-progress research. The series provides opportunities for PhD students, faculty, and industry partners to engage with one another and with the research of scholars from around the world.
Current coordinators are Jason Chan and Yash Babar.
Upcoming events are listed at the bottom of the page.
Speakers
| Date | Speaker | Paper Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1-Feb | Vijay Mookerjee (UT Dallas) | |
| 8-Feb | Eric Zheng (UT Dallas) | |
| 15-Feb | Moshe Barach (UMN Strategy) | |
| 22-Feb | Gordon Gao (Maryland) | |
| 1-Mar | Pallab Sanyal (George Mason) | |
| 8-Mar | Liangfei Qui (University of Florida) | |
| 15-Mar | Jingjing Zhang (Indiana) | |
| 29-Mar | Pedro Ferreira (CMU) | |
| 5-Apr | Nachi Sahoo (Boston University) | |
| 12-Apr | Emma Vaast (Mcgill) | |
| 19-Apr | Alex Tuzhilin (Stern NYU) | |
| 26-Apr | Amit Mehra (UT Dallas) | |
| 3-May | Dokyun Lee (CMU) |
| Date | Speaker | Paper |
|---|---|---|
| 09/28 | Corey Angst U of Notre Dame |
Too Good to Be True: Firm Social Performance and the Risk of Data Breach |
| 10/05 | Yan Huang CMU |
The Role of Feedback in Dynamic Crowdsourcing Contests: A Structural Empirical Analysis |
| 10/19 | Elina Hwang U of Washington |
Mobilizing Healthcare across Geography through Telemedicine Consultations |
| 10/26 | Zaiyan Wei Purdue U |
The Survival of Noise Traders: Evidence From Peer-to-Peer Lending |
| 11/09 | Anandhi Bharadwaj Emory U |
Business Method Innovations and Firm Value: An Empirical Investigation |
| 11/16 | Hong Guo U of Notre Dame |
Cross-Market Integration and Sabotage |
| 11/30 | Yash Babar Sandeep Gangarapu U of Minnesota |
PhD Student Presentations |
| 12/07 | Yaqiong Wang Meizi Zhou U of Minnesota |
PhD Student Presentations |
|
Date |
Speaker |
Paper |
|---|---|---|
| 1/19 | Brad Greenwood U of M |
Just What the Doctor Ordered? Physician Mobility after the Adoption of Electronic Health Records |
| 1/26 | Linli Xu U of M |
There's No Free Lunch Conversation: The Effect of Brand Advertising on Word of Mouth |
| 2/2 | Bill Rand NC State |
Extracting Actionable Marketing Intelligence from Social Media Data using Machine Learning |
| 2/9 | Maytal Saar-Tsechansky UT Austin |
Who Is A Good Decision Maker? Data-Driven Decision Ranking under Unobservable Quality |
| 2/16 | Anand Gopal U Maryland |
A for Effort? Using the Crowd to Identify Moral Hazard in NYC Restaurant Hygiene Inspections |
| 2/23 | Joel Waldfogel U of M |
Platforms, Power, and Preferential Placement: Evidence from Spotify Playlists |
| 3/2 | Foster Provost NYU |
Causal Classification: Treatment Effect vs. Outcome Estimation |
| 3/9 | Yili Hong ASU |
IT-enabled Monitoring and Labor Contracting in Online Platforms: Evidence from a Natural Experiment |
| 3/23 | Christian Catalini MIT |
Technological Opportunity, Bubbles and Innovation: The Dynamics of Initial Coin Offerings |
| 3/30 | Ram Chellappa Emory |
Platform Preannouncement Strategies: The Strategic Role of In-formation in Two-Sided Markets Competition |
| 4/6 | Gautam Pant U of Iowa |
Predicting Interfirm Human Capital Flow: Leveraging Networks and Heterogeneous Effects |
| 4/13 | Jonathon Cummings Duke |
Physical Collocation, Structural Interdependence, and Work-Related Interactions in Organizations |
| 4/20 | Beibei Li CMU |
Nudging Mobile Customers with Real-Time Social Dynamics |
| 4/27 | Sunil Wattal Temple |
Competitive Poaching in Search Advertising: A Randomized Field Experiment |
| 5/4 | Huaxia Rui Rochester |
Voice Cascade on Social Media |