Past TOPS-Tech Research Seminars

Technology

Fall 2025
Speaker/AffiliationDate/TimeRoomPresentation Title
Beibei Li
(Carnegie Mellon University)
September 17th
12:30pm
KMC 4-90Learning Social Determinants of Health from Location Big Data
Indranil Bardhan
(University of Texas at Austin)
October 15th
12:30pm
KMC 4-120TBA

2022–2023 Academic Year

Fall 2022
Speaker/AffiliationDate/TimeRoomPresentation Title
Joshua Gans (Toronto)September 14th 11:00am–12:30pm ETKMC 2-80"A Solomonic Solution to Ownership Disputes: An
Application to Blockchain Front-Running"
Spring 2023
Speaker/AffiliationDate/TimeRoomPresentation Title
Catherine Tucker (MIT)

February 1, 2023

12:30–1:45 PM

KMC 4-90Data Deserts and Black Boxes: The Impact of Socio-Economic Status on Consumer Profiling
John Horton (MIT)

February 15, 2023

12:30–1:45 PM

KMC 4-90Advertising as Coordination: Experimental Evidence on Adding Advertising to a Market
Leman Akoglu (Carnegie Mellon University)

March 1, 2023

12:30–1:45 PM

KMC 4-90Unsupervised Machine Learning for Explainable Health Care Fraud Detection
Steve Tadelis (UC Berkeley)

March 29, 2023

12:30–1:45 PM

KMC 4-90Communication, Learning, and Bargaining Breakdown: An Empirical Analysis
Alessandro Acquist (Carnegie Mellon University)

April 19, 2023

12:30–1:45 PM

KMC 4-90Behavioral Advertising and Consumer Welfare: An Empirical Investigation
Hermant Bhargava (UC Davis)

April 26, 2023

12:30–1:45 PM

KMC 4-90If It's Enraging, it is Engaging: Infinite Scrolling in Information Platforms
Jason Chan (University of Minnesota)

May 3, 2023

12:30–1:45 PM

KMC 4-90Policing the Police: Examining the Role of News Reports on Radically-Biased Policing 

2019 - 2020 Academic Year

Speaker/AffiliationDate/TimeRoomPresentation Title
Fall 2019
Youngjin Yoo
(Case Western)
September 26, 2019 
12:30 - 1:45pm
KMC 4-80"Artificial Intelligence as Information Infrastructure and the Future of a Firm"
Phanish Puranam 
(INSEAD)
October 3, 2019 
12:30 - 1:45pm
KMC 4-80"Influence Structures & Group Decision Quality"
Rob Seamans
(NYU Stern)
November 15, 2018
12:30 - 1:45 pm
KMC 4-80"The Occupational Impact of Artificial Intelligence: Labor, Skills, & Polarization"
Spring 2020
Nir Rosenfeld
(Harvard)
February 20, 2020
12:30 -1:45 pm
KMC 4-80"Learning Representations by Humans, for Humans"
Alex Teytelboym
(Oxford)
February 27, 2020
12:30 -1:45 pm
TBATo Be Announced
Aaron Roth
(UPenn)
March 12, 2020
12:30 -1:45 pm
TBATo Be Announced
Joshua Gans
(University of Toronto)
April 2, 2020
12:30 - 1:45 pm
TBATo Be Announced
Paul DiMaggio
(NYU)
April 23, 2020
12:30 - 1:45 pm
TBATo Be Announced
Aija Leiponen
(Cornell)
April 30, 2020
12:30 - 1:45 pm
TBATo Be Announced
Steve Tadelis
(Berkeley-Haas)
May 7, 2020
12:30 - 1:45 pm
TBATo Be Announced
Feng Zhu
(Harvard)
May 14, 2020
12:30 - 1:45 pm
TBATo Be Announced

 


 

 

2018 - 2019 Academic Year

Speaker/AffiliationDate/TimeRoomPresentation Title
Fall 2018
Peter Flach
(University of Bristol)
October 25, 2018
12:30 - 1:45 pm
KMC 3-90Towards a Measurement Theory for Data Science
Solon Barocas
(Cornell Tech)
November 1, 2018
12:30 - 1:45 pm
KMC 2-70The Intuitive Appeal of Explainable Machines
Jonas Hjort
(Columbia)
November 15, 2018
12:30 - 1:45 pm
KMC 3-90The Arrival of Fast Internet and Employment in Africa
Pinar Yildirim
(Wharton)
December 6, 2018
12:30 - 1:45 pm
KMC 2-70Matching Pennies on the Campaign Trail: An Empirical Study of Senate Elections and Media Coverage
Spring 2019
Benjamin Shestakofsky
(U Penn)
January 10, 2018
12:30 - 1:45 pm
KMC 4-90Working Algorithms: Software Automation and the Future of Work
Kevin Werbach
(Wharton)
January 31, 2019
12:30 - 1:45 pm
KMC 2-70To Be Announced
Samer Faraj
(McGill University)
April 4, 2019
12:30 - 1:45 pm
KMC 4-90To Be Announced
Jeannette M. Wing
(Columbia)
May 2nd, 2019
12:30 - 1:45 pm
KMC 4-90To Be Announced
Chris Forman
(Cornell)
May 9, 2019
12:30 - 1:45 pm
KMC 4-90To Be Announced
Emma Vaast
(McGill)
May 16, 2019
12:30 - 1:45 pm
KMC 4-90To Be Announced

 


 

 

2016 - 2017 Academic Year

Spring 2017:
Speaker/AffiliationDate/TimeRoomPresentation Title
Marshall Van Alstyne
(Boston University)
March 29, 2017
12:30-1:45pm
KMC 3-120"The Role of APIs in Firm Performance"

And results from "Pipelines, Platforms and the New Rules of Strategy"
Wolf Ketter
(Erasmus University)
April 19, 2017
12:30pm-1:45pm
KMC 3-120"FleetPower: Creating Virtual Power Plants in Sustainable Smart Electricity Markets"
Fall 2016:
Speaker/AffiliationDate/TimeRoomPresentation Title
Hanna Halaburda
(NYU)
To be rescheduled
Frank Pasquale
(University of Maryland)
To be rescheduled for Fall 2017
Andrew Mao
(Microsoft Research NYC)
September 29, 2016
12:30pm-1:45pm
KMC 3-80Studying Teamwork and Cooperation in the Virtual Lab
Ashish Agarwal
(University of Texas)
October 20, 2016
12:30pm-1:45pm
KMC 3-70Word-of-Mouth in Social Media Advertising on Facebook
Alex Peysakhovich
(Facebook)
November 3, 2016
12:30pm-1:45pm
KMC 3-70Some things they told me never to do in grad school (but actually work in the real world)
Bo Cowgill
(Columbia University)
November 10, 2016
12:30-1:45pm
KMC 3-70Productivity and Automation of Subjective Judgements: Evidence from Resume Screening
Vibhanshu Abhishek
(Carnegie Mellon University)
November 17, 2016
12:30pm-1:45pm
KMC 3-70Food for Thought: The Impact of m-Health Enabled Interventions on Eating Behavior

 

2015 - 2016 Academic Year

Spring 2016: 
Speaker/AffiliationDate/TimeRoomPresentation Title
Hanna Halaburda
(NYU Stern)
April 14, 2016
12:30-1:45pm
KMC 3-50Can We Predict the Winner in a Market with Network Effects? Competition in Cryptocurrency Market
Ben Shneiderman
(University of Maryland)
April 21, 2016
12:30-1:45pm
KMC 3-50The New ABCs of Research: Achieving Breakthrough Collaborations
*Joint talk with NYU Center for Data Science
Shiri Azenkot
(Cornell Tech)
April 26, 2016
12:15-1:30pm
KMC 3-110Designing Accessible Nonvisual Interaction for Mobile Devices
Bo Cowgill
(Columbia University)
May 12, 2016
12:30-1:45pm
TBDTBD
Fall 2015:
Speaker/AffiliationDate/TimeRoomPresentation Title
Ching Ren
(University of Minnesota)
September 11, 2015
12:30pm-1:45pm
KMC 3-130Understanding Word-of-Mouth and Customer Engagement on Facebook Business Pages
Kevin Boudreau
(Harvard Business School & London Business School)
September 17, 2015
12:30pm-1:45pm
KMC 3-130Companies vs. ‘Crowds’ on the AppStore: Competition, Innovation and Experimentation in Markets with Low Innovation Costs and Creative Work
Matt Backus
(Columbia)
September 24, 2015
12:30pm-1:45pm
KMC 3-130Cheap Talk, Round Numbers, and the Economics of Negotiation
Ben Shneiderman
(University of Maryland)
POSTPONED to Spring 2016
April 14, 2016
The New ABCs of Research: Achieving Breakthrough Collaborations
Steve Tadelis
(UC Berkeley)
October 22, 2015
12:30pm-1:45pm
KMC 3-130The Limits of Reputation in Platform Markets: An Empirical Analysis and Field Experiment
Christian Catalini
(MIT)
October 29, 2015
12:30pm-1:45pm
KMC 3-130MIT Digital Currencies Experiment
Youngjin Yoo
(Temple University)
November 5, 2015
12:30pm-1:45pm
KMC 3-130Design and Evolution of Complex Socio-technical Systems: An Organizational Genetics Approach
Michael Bernstein
(Stanford University)
November 12, 2015
12:30pm-1:45pm
KMC 3-130Crowdsourcing a Meeting of Minds
Liz Gerber
(Northwestern University)
November 19, 2015
12:30-1:45pm
KMC 3-130Organizations and Technology to Empower Collective Innovation
Pedro Ferreira
(Carnegie Mellon University)
December 3, 2015
12:30-1:45pm
KMC 3-130Target the ego or target the group: Evidence from a randomized experiment in pro-active churn management

 

2014 - 2015 Academic Year

Spring 2015
Speaker/AffiliationDate/TimePresentation Title
Michael Luca
(HBS)
 
May 7, 2015
4:00pm - 5:30pm
KMC 3-130
Fake It Till You Make It: Reputation, Competition, and Yelp Review Fraud
Fall 2014
Speaker/AffiliationDate/TimePresentation Title
Andreea Gorbatai
(UC Berkeley)
 
November 13
4:00 - 5:30pm
KMC 3-110
Enchanting Fields: Collective Events and Emotions as Value-Amplifiers During Field Emergence and Institutionalization
Param Vir Singh
(CMU)
November 20
4:00 - 5:30pm
KMC 3-110
Is Core-Periphery Network Good for Knowledge Sharing? A Structural Model of Endogenous Network Formation on a Crowdsourced Customer Support Forum

 

2013 - 2014 Academic Year

Spring 2014
SpeakerDate/RoomPresentation Title
Ritu Agarwal
University of Maryland
Tues, April 1st
12:30-1:45pm
KMC 4-60
*Lunch at 12:15pm
Physician Heal Thyself? Competency Traps, Expertise, and Changes in Decision Making After Information Shocks
Daniel Neill
Carnegie Mellon University
Thurs, April 3rd
4:00-5:30pm
KMC 4-80
Scaling Up Event and Pattern Detection to Big Data
Mykola Pechenizkiy
Eindhoven University of Technology
Tues, May 6th
12:30-1:45pm
KMC 3-110
*Lunch at 12:15pm
Context discovery and context integration in predictive Web analytics
Fall 2013
Unless otherwise noted, seminars are held on Thursday afternoons from 4:00-5:30 pm.
SpeakerDate/RoomPresentation Title
Paul Leonardi
Northwestern University
9/19/13
KMC 4-60
Ambient Awareness: Using Social Media to Improve Accuracy of Organizational Metaknowledge
Peter Sheridan Dodds
University of Vermont
11/7/13
KMC 4-110
Measuring Happiness, Health, and Social Stories
Shawndra Hill
University of Pennsylvania
12/5/13
KMC 3-110
Talkographics: Using What Viewers Say Online to Calculate Audience Affinity Networks for Social TV-based Recommendations

 

Spring 2013
SpeakerDateTime/
Location
Title 
Balaji Padhmanaban
University of Southern Florida
Thursday, April 18th4:00-5:30pm
Tisch 201
The “Top N” News Recommender: Count Amplification and Manipulation Resistance 
Ritu Agrawal
University of Maryland
CancelledN/AN/A 
Chris Forman
Georgia Tech
Thursday, May 9th4:00-5:30pm
KMC 3-50
Digital Erosion of Firm Boundaries: Production Chain Organization and IT Use in US Manufacturing 

 

Fall 2012
SpeakerDateTime/
Location
Title 
Dean Eckles
Facebook
Thursday, September 27th4:00-5:30pm
KMC 3-60
Estimating Peer Effects With and Without Experiments 
Cyrus Samii
New York University
Thursday, November 10th12:30-2:00pm
KMC 4-90
Estimating Casual Effects in Social Network Experiments: A Constructive Critique of Recent Studies 
Marius Florin Niculescu
Georgia Tech
Thursday, November 15th4:00-5:30pm
KMC 4-60
Engineering Optimal Network Effects via Social Media Features and Seeding in Markets for Digital Goods and Services 
Anitesh Barua
University of Texas
Thursday, November 29th4:00-5:30pm
KMC 3-70
Reexamining the Market Value of Technology Investments in Organizations 
Il Horn Hann
University of Maryland
Thursday, December 6th4:00-5:30pm
KMC 4-90
Social Bias in Online Product Ratings -- A Quasi-Experimental Study 
Avi Goldfarb
University of Toronto
Thursday, December 13th12:30-2:00pm
KMC 4-90
The Trillion Dollar Conundrum: Complementarities and Health Information Technology 

 

Spring 2011
SpeakerDateTime/
Location
Title 
Catherine Tucker
MIT
Thursday, February 3rd4:00-5:30pm
KMC 5-90
Can Healthcare IT Save Babies? 
Phil Maymin
NYU Poly
Thursday, February 10th4:00-5:30pm
KMC 5-90
Markets are Efficient if and only if P=NP 
Mor Naaman
Rutgers
Thursday,
March 24th
4:00-5:30pm
KMC 5-90
Emotion, Tie Persistence and Network Structure on Twitter 
Gal Oestreicher-Singer
Tel Aviv University
Thursday,
April 7th
4:00-5:30pm
KMC 5-90
The Quest for Content: How User Generated Links Can Facilitate Online Exploration 
Elad Yom-Tov
Yahoo! Research
Thursday,
April 14th
4:00-5:30pm
KMC 5-85
Predicting Customer Churn in Mobile Networks Through Analysis of Social Groups 

 

Fall 2010
SPEAKERDATETIME/
LOCATION
TITLE 
Shane Greenstein
Kellogg,
Northwestern
Thursday,
September 16th
4:00-5:30 pm
KMC 5-90
The Internet and Local Wages: Convergence or Divergence? 
Sanjeev Goyal
Cambridge
Thursday,
September 23rd
4:00-5:30 pm
KMC 4-110
The law of the few: origins and implications 
David Jensen
U Mass.
Thursday,
October 14th
4:00-5:30 pm
KMC 5-90
Causal Discovery in Social Networks 
Gerald (Jerry) Kane
Boston College
Thursday,
October 21st
4:00-5:30 pm
KMC 5-90
A Multi-Method Study of the Creation of Medical Information on Wikipedia 
Jennifer Neville PurdueThursday,
October 28th
4:00-5:30 pm
KMC 5-90
Hypothesis Testing Methods for Social Network Mining 
Eric Overby
Georgia Tech
Thursday,
November 11th
4:00-5:30 pm
KMC 5-90
Limited Attention, Market Speculation, and the Effect of Electronic Trading: Evidence from the Wholesale Automotive Market 
Gediminas Adomavicius
University of Minnesota
Thursday,
December 2nd
4:00-5:30 pm
KMC 5-90
On the Stability of Recommendation Algorithms 

 

Spring 2010
SPEAKERDATETIME/
LOCATION
TITLE 
Mark Handcock
UCLA
Friday,
February 12th
11:30am-12:30pm
KMC 5-90
Statistical Methods for Sampling Hidden Networked Populations
This is a joint seminar with IOMS-Statistics.
 
Tunay Tunca
Stanford
Monday, February 15th12:30-2:00pm
KMC 5-85
An Empirical Analysis of Price, Quality, and Incumbency in Online Service Procurement Auctions (joint work with DJ Wu and Vivian Zhong)
This is a joint seminar with IOMS-Operations Management.
 
Elizabeth J. Davidson
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Thursday,
March 25th
4:15-5:45pm
KMC 5-90
Tech Talk: Investigating the Emergence of New Actors through New Media in Technology Innovation Discourse 
David Blei
Princeton
Thursday,
April 8th
4:15-5:45pm
KMC 5-90
Supervised and Relational Topic Models 
Steven Johnson
Temple
Thursday,
April 15th
4:15-5:45pm
KMC 5-90
Network Exchange Patterns and Power Laws in Online Communities 
Adam Seth Litwin
Johns Hopkins
Thursday,
April 22nd
4:15-5:45pm
KMC 5-90
Technological Change at Work: The Impact of Employee Involvement on the Effectiveness of Health Information Technology 
Raghu Garud
Penn State
CANCELED
Thursday,
April 29th
4:15-5:45pm
KMC 5-90
**This talk has been canceled. We hope to reschedule for next semester. ** 
IOMS-IS RESEARCH SEMINAR SERIES:
SPRING 2009
SPEAKERDATETIME/
LOCATION
TITLE 
Youngjin Yoo
Temple University
Thursday Feburary 123:45-5:15 pm
KMC 5-90
Path Creation in Innovation Design: A Multi-Layered Perspective 
Alessandro Acquisti Carnegie MellonThursday February 193:45-5:15 pm
KMC 5-90
Inferring Sensitive Information from Public Data 
Carter Butts
UC Irvine
Thursday
March 5
3:30-5 pm
KMC 5-90
Coping with Disruption: Emergent Networks During Disasters 
Sarah Rice
University of Connecticut
Thursday
March 26
3:45-5:15 pm
KMC 5-90
Simultaneous Online Auctions by Sellers of Different Reputations: Theory and Experimental Evidence 
Lee Fleming
Harvard Business School
Thursday
April 2
3:45-5:15 pm
KMC 5-90
Regional Disadvantage: How Non-compete Agreements Impact Careers, Entrepreneurship, and Innovative Dynamics 
Ray Reagans
Carnegie Mellon
Thursday
April 9
3:45-5:15 pm
Room TBA
This seminar has been canceled. This seminar has been rescheduled for May 7. 
Vijay Gurbaxani UC IrvineTuesday April 2112:45 KMC 8-170Performance Measurement and IT Outsourcing - RSVP required; please contact Shirley Lau at 212 998 0810 
Avi Bernstein
University of Zurich
Thursday
April 23
3:45-5:15 pm
KMC 5-90
Tell Me Where You’ve Lived, and I’ll Tell You What You Like: Adapting Interfaces to Cultural Preferences 
Michael Kearns University of PennsylvaniaThursday
April 30
3:45-5:15 pm
Room TBA
This seminar has been canceled. We hope to reschedule the speaker in the fall. 
Ray Reagans
Carnegie Mellon
Thursday May 73:45-5:15 pm KMC 5-75Bridging the Knowledge Gap: The impact of strong ties, network cohesion and network range 
FALL 2008
SPEAKERDATETIME/
LOCATION
TITLE 
Jure Leskovec
Cornell/Stanford
Thursday
September 18
3:45-5:15 pm
KMC 5-80
Dynamics of Large Networks 
Mark Mortensen
MIT
Tuesday
September 30
12:45-2:15 pm
KMC 5-75
Walking a Mile In Their Shoes: First-Hand Experience and Reflexive and Direct Cross-Site Knowledge as Determinants of Effective Global Collaborations 
Claudia Perlich
IBM Research
Thursday
October 23
3:45-5:15 pm
KMC 5-80
Winner’s Report: KDD CUP Breast Cancer Identification 
Paul Leonardi
Northwestern University
Thursday
October 30
3:45-5:15 pm
KMC 5-80

Talking about Technology: A Comparative Study of Framing, Appropriation and Network Change in Organizations

 
Michael Macy
Cornell University
Thursday
November 13
3:45-5:15 pm
KMC 5-80
Social Contagions and Online Networks 
Ravi Aron
University of Southern Califoria
Thursday
November 20
3:45-5:15 pm
KMC 5-80
The Market for Complexity Arbitrage: Process Structure and Market Outcomes in Offshore Sourcing Of Services – Evidence from Field Research 
SPRING 2008
SPEAKERDATETIME/ LOCATIONTITLE 
Gueorgi Kossinets CornellThursday, January 24th4:15 pm, KMC 5-80Empirical Analysis of an Evolving Social Network 
Deepa Mani UT AustinTuesday, February 5th12:30 pm, KMC 5-80Outsourcing Discount or Paradox?
An Analysis of Long-Term Abnormal
Stock Returns across Outsourcing Contracts
 
Marc Smith MicrosoftTuesday, February 12th12:30 pm, KMC 5-80Visualizing the Signatures of Social Roles in
Online Discussion Groups
 
Sonny Tambe WhartonThursday, February 14th4:15 pm, KMC 5-80Job Hopping, Knowledge Spillovers, and the
Information Technology Revolution
 
Yiling Chen
Yahoo!
Thursday, February 21th4:15 pm, KMC 5-80Strategic Behavior and Combinatorial Betting
in Prediction Markets
 
Rica Gonen Yahoo!Thursday, March 6th4:15 pm, KMC 5-80Truthful Adaptive Sponsored Search Mechanisms 
Emmanuelle Vaast LIUWednesday, April 9th4:15 pm, KMC 5-80Trans-situated learning:
Supporting a network of practice with an
information infrastructure
 
Kartik Hosanagar
Wharton
Thursday, April 17th4:15 pm, KMC 5-80Blockbuster Culture’s Next Rise or Fall:
The Impact of Recommender Systems on
Sales Diversity
 
FALL 2007
SPEAKERDATETIME/ LOCATIONTITLE 
Ron Burt University of ChicagoThursday, September 20th4:15 pm, KMC 5-90Social Capital Process Clues fromNetwork Spillover
Paper
 
Lada Adamic
University of Michigan
Thursday, October 18th4:15 pm, KMC 5-90Expertise Sharing Dynamics in Online Forums
Paper
 
Lorin Hitt
U. Penn, Wharton
Thursday, October 25th4:00 pm, KMC 5-90Offshoring, Skills, and Employment:
Evidence from Information Technology Workers, 1995-2006
Paper
 
Usama Fayyed
Yahoo!
Thursday, November 1st4:15 pm, KMC 5-90Inventing the New Sciences of the Internet:
Towards Understanding the New Interactive Media
 
Claudia Perlich IBMThursday, November 8th4:15 pm, KMC 5-90KDD-CUP goes NETFLIX: Modeling Movie Ratings using Poisson Regression
Paper
 
Tridas Mukhopadhyay CMUThursday, November 15th4:15 pm, KMC 5-90How do Project Managers’ Skills Affect Project Success in IT Outsourcing?
Paper
 
David Parkes HarvardThursday, November 29th4:15 pm, KMC 5-90Explorations in Computational Mechanism Design 
SPRING 2007
SPEAKERDATETIME/ LOCATIONTITLE 
Alok Gupta University of
Minnesota
Thursday, January 25th4:15 pm, KMC 5-80Predicting Bidders’ Willingness
to Pay in Online Multi-Unit
Ascending Auctions:
Analytical and Empirical Insights
Paper
 
David Blei Princeton UniversityThursday, February 1st4:15 pm, KMC 5-80Modeling Science: Topic Models
of Scientific Journals
and Other Large Text Databases Paper 1, Paper 2, Paper 3, Video
 
Eric Overby Emory UniversityThursday, February 8th4:15 pm, KMC 5-80Electronic vs. Physical Market
Mechanisms: Evaluating Multiple
Theories in the Wholesale
Automotive Market Paper, Video
 
Rahul Telang Carnegie Mellon UniversityThursday, February 15th4:15 pm, KMC 5-80Empirical Analysis of Mobile
Voice and SMS Service:
A Structural Model
Paper , Video
 
Andrew McAfee
Harvard Business School
Thursday, March 1st4:15 pm, KMC 5-80Is There Evidence that IT
Matters?:
Recent Changes in the
Competitive Dynamics of US Industries
and their Association
with IT Intensity
Paper , Video
 
Brian Davison LehighThursday, March 8th4:15 pm, KMC 5-80Contextual Link Analysis for
Web Search
Paper , Video
 
Stu Feldman
IBM
Thursday, March 29th4:15 pm, KMC 5-80Research Directions in Services Video 
Kevin Crowston
Syracuse University
Thursday, April 5th4:15 pm, KMC 5-80The bug fixing process in
proprietary
and Free/Libre Open
Source Software:
A coordination theory analysis
Paper 1 , Paper 2 , Video
 
Christos Papadimitriou
UC Berkeley
Thursday, April 12th4:15 pm, KMC 5-80The Complexity of Computing a
Nash Equilibrium
Paper , Slides , Video
 
Erik Brynjolfsson
MIT
Monday, April 16th12:30 pm, KMC 4-120Goodbye Pareto Principle,
Hello Long Tail
Paper
 
Erik Brynjolfsson
MIT
Wednesday, April 18th4:15 pm, KMC 5-85IT, Productivity, and
Organizational Capital
 
Lars Bo Jeppesen
Copenhagen School of Business
Thursday, April 26th4:15 pm, KMC 5-80Lead Users as Facilitators of
Knowledge Sharing in a
Community Setting Paper
 

 

FALL 2006
SPEAKERDATETIME/ LOCATIONTITLE 
Paul Carlile Boston UniversityThursday, September 21st4:15 pm, KMC 5-80The Challenge of Novelty in Distributed
Innovation Systems:
Stretching from OSS to Toyota
 
John Moody ICSI BerkeleyThursday, September 28th4:15 pm, KMC 5-80Direct Reinforcement Learning:
Application to Games and Finance
Paper 1, Paper 2
 
Christos Faloutsos Carnegie Mellon UniversityThursday, October 5th4:15 pm, KMC 5-80Data Mining Using Fractals and Power Laws Paper 1, Paper 2, Paper 3 
Glenn Ellison
MIT
Thursday, October 12th4:15 pm, KMC 5-80Taxes, Geography, and Online-Offline Competition
Paper
 
Ritu Agarwal
University of Maryland
Thursday, October 26th4:15 pm, KMC 5-80Online Infomediaries and Price Discrimination:
Evidence from the Autoretailing Sector Paper
 
David Pennock
Yahoo! Inc
Thursday, November 2nd4:15 pm, KMC 5-80Information and Complexity in Securities Markets Paper 
Sumit Sarkar
UT Dallas
Thursday, November 9th4:15 pm, KMC 5-80Resource Allocation Policies for Personalization
in Content Delivery Sites Paper
 
Ramayya Krishnan Carnegie Mellon UniversityThursday, November 16th4:15 pm, KMC 5-80On Software Diversification, Correlated Failures
and Risk Management
Paper
 
Michael Baye
Indiana University
Thursday, November 30th4:15 pm, KMC 5-80Brand and Price Advertising in Online Markets
Paper
 
FALL 2005
SPEAKERDATETIME/ LOCATIONTITLE
Ivan Png of National U. of SingaporeThursday, September 8th4:15 pm, KMC 5-80Consumer Privacy and Marketing
Avoidance Paper
Sanjeev Dewan of UC IrvineThursday, September 15th4:15 pm, KMC 5-80Investigating the Risk-Return
Relationship of Information
Technology Investment: Firm-Level Empirical Analysis Paper
Alex Tuzhilin of New York UniversityThursday, September 22nd4:15 pm, KMC 5-80Building and Querying Large
Modelbases Paper
Junghoo Cho
of UCLA
Thursday, September 29th4:15 pm, KMC 5-80Search Engines Considered
Harmful: In Search of an
Unbiased Web Ranking Paper 1 Paper 2 Paper 3
Keith Hampton of Annenberg School
for Communication, U. Penn
Thursday, October 6th4:15 pm, KMC 5-80The Everyday Use of New
Technologies: Transforming
Social Networks,
Locally and Globally?
John Morgan
of UC Berkeley
Friday, October 14th11:00 am, KMC 5-80Estimating Firm-Level
Demand at a Price Comparison
Site: Accounting for Shoppers
and the Number of Competitors Paper
Aleksandra Mojsilovic,
Bonnie Ray,
& Samer Takriti
of IBM Research
Thursday, November 3rd4:15 pm, KMC 5-80Managing Risk Exposure in
a Services Business
Mayuram Krishnan
of University of Michigan
Thursday, November 10th4:15 pm, KMC 5-80The Effect of Information
Technology Investments
on Customer Satisfaction:
Theory and Evidence
Paper
Evgeniou Theodoros
of INSEAD
Thursday, November 17th4:15 pm, KMC 5-80Adaptive Choice-based
Conjoint Analysis for
Online Market Research Using Machine
Learning and Optimization
Paper 1 Paper 2
Amy Greenwald
of Brown University
Thursday, December 1st4:15 pm, KMC 5-80Bid Determination in
Simultaneous Auctions
Paper

 

SPRING 2006
SPEAKERDATETIME/ LOCATIONTITLE
Kunsoo Han University of MinnesotaThursday, February 2nd4:15 pm, KMC 5-80Economic Contributions of IT Outsourcing:
An Industry-Level Analysis Paper
Karim Lakhani MITWednesday, February 15th4:15 pm, KMC 3-120Broadcast Search in Scientific and
Technical Problem Solving:
Finding Solutions from the Periphery Paper
Pamela Hinds Stanford UniversityThursday, February 16th4:15 pm, KMC 5-80High Viscosity Knowledge
Sharing in Global Work: The Role of Affective Bonds
Mohammad Mahdian MicrosoftTuesday, February 21st12:30 pm, KMC 8-170Theoretical Challenges in the Design of
Advertisement Auctions Paper 1 Paper 2 Paper 3
Gerald Kane Emory UniversityThursday, February 23rd4:20 pm, KMC 3-120Casting the Net: Towards a Theory of
Multimodal Knowledge Networks Paper
Sinan Aral MITTuesday, February 28th12:30 pm, KMC 5-80Information, Technology and Information
Worker Productivity:Task Level Evidence Paper
Samer Faraj University of Maryland  CANCELED
Victor Lavrenko University of MassachusettsTuesday, March 7th12:30 pm, KMC 5-80A Generative View of Relevance
Jonathan Kelner MITThursday, March 9th4:20 pm, KMC 3-120A Randomized Polynomial-Time
Simplex Algorithm for Linear
Programming Paper
Prabhakar Raghavan Yahoo! ResearchThursday, March 23rd4:15 pm, KMC 5-80Query Incentive Networks Paper
V. Sambamurthy Michigan State UniversityThursday, March 30th4:15 pm, KMC 5-80Complementarities between
Supply Chain Processes and
Information Technologies:
The Impacts on Performance
of Manufacturing Firms Paper
Il-Horn Hann University of Southern CaliforniaThursday, April 6th4:15 pm, KMC 5-80Risk Averse Bidding in
Name-Your-Own-Price Channels
John King University of MichiganThursday, April 13th4:15 pm, KMC 3-60Information Systems, Enterprise
Transformation, and the
Future of Higher Education
Barrie Nault University of CalgaryThursday, April 20th4:15 pm, KMC 5-80Complementarities between
Supply Chain Processes and
Information Industry Level
Supplier-Driven IT Spillovers Paper
Ravi Bapna University of ConnecticutThursday, April 27th4:15 pm, KMC 5-80Do Market Characteristics
Impact the Relationship between Retailer Characteristics and Online Price? Paper
Hsinchun Chen University of ArizonaThursday, May 4th2:00 pm, KMC 5-85Intelligence and Security
Informatics for International
Security: Information Sharing and Data Mining
Gautam Ray UT AustinThursday, May 11th4:15 pm, KMC 5-80The Interaction between
Knowledge Codification and Knowledge Sharing Network Paper
 
SPRING 2005
SPEAKERDATETIME/ LOCATIONTITLE 
Paul Resnick
University of Michigan
Thursday, January 27th4:15 pm, KMC 5-80Eliciting Informative Feedback: The Peer-Prediction Method PDF 
Abraham Seidmann
University of Rochester
Thursday, February 3rd4:15 pm, KMC 5-80Analyzing the Simultaneous Use of Auctions and Posted Prices for ON-Line Selling PDF 
Chris Dellarocas
University of Maryland
Thursday, February 10th4:15 pm, KMC 5-80Strategic Manipulation of Internet Opinion Forums: Implications for Consumers and Firms PDF 
Zan Huang
University of Arizona
Thursday, February 17th4:15 pm, KMC 5-80Graph-based Analysis for E-commerce Recommendation PDF 1 PDF 2 
Brian Pentland
Michigan State University
Thursday, February 24th4:15 pm, KMC 5-80Designing Routines PDF 
Sunil Mithas
University of Michigan
Thursday, March 3rd4:15 pm, KMC 5-80Effect of Information Technology on Customer Satisfaction PDF *CANCELED* 
Haim Mendelson
Stanford University *department wide seminar
Tuesday, April 5th4:15 pm, KMC 5-80Differentiation, R&D Investment
and Vertical Integration
 
Ulrike Schultze
Southern Methodist University
Thursday, April 14th4:15 pm, KMC 5-80Incorporating Self-Serve Technology into Co-Production Designs PDF 
Wanda Orlikowski
MIT *department wide seminar
Thursday, April 21st4:15 pm, KMC 5-80Scaffolding Work: Taking Technology Seriously in Studies of Organizations 
Karim Lakhani
MIT
Thursday, April 28st4:15 pm, KMC 5-80The Primacy of the Periphery in Open Source Software Communities 
Vijay Gurbaxani UC IrvineThursday, May 5th4:15 pm, KMC 5-80The Value of Information Systems Outsourcing Arrangements: An Event Study Analysis 

Seminars before 2005