Past TOPS-Tech Research Seminars
Technology | |||
| Fall 2025 | |||
| Speaker/Affiliation | Date/Time | Room | Presentation Title |
| Beibei Li (Carnegie Mellon University) | September 17th 12:30pm | KMC 4-90 | Learning Social Determinants of Health from Location Big Data |
| Indranil Bardhan (University of Texas at Austin) | October 15th 12:30pm | KMC 4-120 | TBA |
2022–2023 Academic Year | |||
| Fall 2022 | |||
| Speaker/Affiliation | Date/Time | Room | Presentation Title |
| Joshua Gans (Toronto) | September 14th 11:00am–12:30pm ET | KMC 2-80 | "A Solomonic Solution to Ownership Disputes: An Application to Blockchain Front-Running" |
| Spring 2023 | |||
| Speaker/Affiliation | Date/Time | Room | Presentation Title |
| Catherine Tucker (MIT) | February 1, 2023 12:30–1:45 PM | KMC 4-90 | Data 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 4-90 | Advertising as Coordination: Experimental Evidence on Adding Advertising to a Market |
| Leman Akoglu (Carnegie Mellon University) | March 1, 2023 12:30–1:45 PM | KMC 4-90 | Unsupervised Machine Learning for Explainable Health Care Fraud Detection |
| Steve Tadelis (UC Berkeley) | March 29, 2023 12:30–1:45 PM | KMC 4-90 | Communication, Learning, and Bargaining Breakdown: An Empirical Analysis |
| Alessandro Acquist (Carnegie Mellon University) | April 19, 2023 12:30–1:45 PM | KMC 4-90 | Behavioral Advertising and Consumer Welfare: An Empirical Investigation |
| Hermant Bhargava (UC Davis) | April 26, 2023 12:30–1:45 PM | KMC 4-90 | If 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 4-90 | Policing the Police: Examining the Role of News Reports on Radically-Biased Policing |
2019 - 2020 Academic Year | |||
| Speaker/Affiliation | Date/Time | Room | Presentation 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 | TBA | To Be Announced |
| Aaron Roth (UPenn) | March 12, 2020 12:30 -1:45 pm | TBA | To Be Announced |
| Joshua Gans (University of Toronto) | April 2, 2020 12:30 - 1:45 pm | TBA | To Be Announced |
| Paul DiMaggio (NYU) | April 23, 2020 12:30 - 1:45 pm | TBA | To Be Announced |
| Aija Leiponen (Cornell) | April 30, 2020 12:30 - 1:45 pm | TBA | To Be Announced |
| Steve Tadelis (Berkeley-Haas) | May 7, 2020 12:30 - 1:45 pm | TBA | To Be Announced |
| Feng Zhu (Harvard) | May 14, 2020 12:30 - 1:45 pm | TBA | To Be Announced |
2018 - 2019 Academic Year | |||
| Speaker/Affiliation | Date/Time | Room | Presentation Title |
| Fall 2018 | |||
| Peter Flach (University of Bristol) | October 25, 2018 12:30 - 1:45 pm | KMC 3-90 | Towards a Measurement Theory for Data Science |
| Solon Barocas (Cornell Tech) | November 1, 2018 12:30 - 1:45 pm | KMC 2-70 | The Intuitive Appeal of Explainable Machines |
| Jonas Hjort (Columbia) | November 15, 2018 12:30 - 1:45 pm | KMC 3-90 | The Arrival of Fast Internet and Employment in Africa |
| Pinar Yildirim (Wharton) | December 6, 2018 12:30 - 1:45 pm | KMC 2-70 | Matching 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 4-90 | Working Algorithms: Software Automation and the Future of Work |
| Kevin Werbach (Wharton) | January 31, 2019 12:30 - 1:45 pm | KMC 2-70 | To Be Announced |
| Samer Faraj (McGill University) | April 4, 2019 12:30 - 1:45 pm | KMC 4-90 | To Be Announced |
| Jeannette M. Wing (Columbia) | May 2nd, 2019 12:30 - 1:45 pm | KMC 4-90 | To Be Announced |
| Chris Forman (Cornell) | May 9, 2019 12:30 - 1:45 pm | KMC 4-90 | To Be Announced |
| Emma Vaast (McGill) | May 16, 2019 12:30 - 1:45 pm | KMC 4-90 | To Be Announced |
2016 - 2017 Academic Year | |||
| Spring 2017: | |||
| Speaker/Affiliation | Date/Time | Room | Presentation 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/Affiliation | Date/Time | Room | Presentation 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 3-80 | Studying Teamwork and Cooperation in the Virtual Lab |
| Ashish Agarwal (University of Texas) | October 20, 2016 12:30pm-1:45pm | KMC 3-70 | Word-of-Mouth in Social Media Advertising on Facebook |
| Alex Peysakhovich (Facebook) | November 3, 2016 12:30pm-1:45pm | KMC 3-70 | Some 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 3-70 | Productivity and Automation of Subjective Judgements: Evidence from Resume Screening |
| Vibhanshu Abhishek (Carnegie Mellon University) | November 17, 2016 12:30pm-1:45pm | KMC 3-70 | Food for Thought: The Impact of m-Health Enabled Interventions on Eating Behavior |
2014 - 2015 Academic Year | ||
| Spring 2015 | ||
| Speaker/Affiliation | Date/Time | Presentation 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/Affiliation | Date/Time | Presentation 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 |
| Spring 2013 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Speaker | Date | Time/ Location | Title | |
| Balaji Padhmanaban University of Southern Florida | Thursday, April 18th | 4:00-5:30pm Tisch 201 | The “Top N” News Recommender: Count Amplification and Manipulation Resistance | |
| Ritu Agrawal University of Maryland | Cancelled | N/A | N/A | |
| Chris Forman Georgia Tech | Thursday, May 9th | 4:00-5:30pm KMC 3-50 | Digital Erosion of Firm Boundaries: Production Chain Organization and IT Use in US Manufacturing | |
| Fall 2012 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Speaker | Date | Time/ Location | Title | |
| Dean Eckles | Thursday, September 27th | 4:00-5:30pm KMC 3-60 | Estimating Peer Effects With and Without Experiments | |
| Cyrus Samii New York University | Thursday, November 10th | 12:30-2:00pm KMC 4-90 | Estimating Casual Effects in Social Network Experiments: A Constructive Critique of Recent Studies | |
| Marius Florin Niculescu Georgia Tech | Thursday, November 15th | 4:00-5:30pm 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 29th | 4:00-5:30pm KMC 3-70 | Reexamining the Market Value of Technology Investments in Organizations | |
| Il Horn Hann University of Maryland | Thursday, December 6th | 4:00-5:30pm KMC 4-90 | Social Bias in Online Product Ratings -- A Quasi-Experimental Study | |
| Avi Goldfarb University of Toronto | Thursday, December 13th | 12:30-2:00pm KMC 4-90 | The Trillion Dollar Conundrum: Complementarities and Health Information Technology | |
| Spring 2011 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Speaker | Date | Time/ Location | Title | |
| Catherine Tucker MIT | Thursday, February 3rd | 4:00-5:30pm KMC 5-90 | Can Healthcare IT Save Babies? | |
| Phil Maymin NYU Poly | Thursday, February 10th | 4:00-5:30pm 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SPEAKER | DATE | TIME/ 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 Purdue | Thursday, 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SPEAKER | DATE | TIME/ 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 15th | 12:30-2:00pm 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. ** | |
| Fall 2009 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SPEAKER | DATE | TIME/ LOCATION | TITLE | |
| S. Muthu Muthukrishnan Google and Rutgers University | Thursday, September 17 | 4:15-5:45 pm KMC 5-85 | Research Issues in Internet Ad Exchanges | |
| Matt Jackson Stanford University | Thursday, September 24 | 4:15-5:45 pm KMC 5-85 | Identifying the Roles of Choice and Chance in Network Formation: Racial Biases in High School Friendships | |
| Peter Fader Wharton, UPenn | Thursday, October 8 | 4:15-5:45 pm KMC 5-85 | Customer-Base Analysis in a Discrete-Time Noncontractual Setting | |
| Nikolay Archak NYU Stern | Thursday, October 15 | 4:15-5:45 pm KMC 5-80 | Money, glory and entry deterrence: analyzing strategic behavior of contestants in simultaneous crowdsourcing contests on TopCoder.com | |
| David Huffaker University of Michigan | Thursday, November 19 | 4:15-5:45 pm KMC 5-85 | Dimensions of Leadership and Social Influence in Online Communities | |
| Karim Lakhani Harvard | Thursday, December 3 | 4:15-5:45 pm KMC 5-85 | The Determinants of Individual Performance and Collective Value in Private-Collective Software Innovation | |
| IOMS-IS RESEARCH SEMINAR SERIES: SPRING 2009 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SPEAKER | DATE | TIME/ LOCATION | TITLE | |
| Youngjin Yoo Temple University | Thursday Feburary 12 | 3:45-5:15 pm KMC 5-90 | Path Creation in Innovation Design: A Multi-Layered Perspective | |
| Alessandro Acquisti Carnegie Mellon | Thursday February 19 | 3:45-5:15 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 Irvine | Tuesday April 21 | 12:45 KMC 8-170 | Performance 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 Pennsylvania | Thursday 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 7 | 3:45-5:15 pm KMC 5-75 | Bridging the Knowledge Gap: The impact of strong ties, network cohesion and network range | |
| FALL 2008 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SPEAKER | DATE | TIME/ 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 | ||
| 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SPEAKER | DATE | TIME/ LOCATION | TITLE | |
| Gueorgi Kossinets Cornell | Thursday, January 24th | 4:15 pm, KMC 5-80 | Empirical Analysis of an Evolving Social Network | |
| Deepa Mani UT Austin | Tuesday, February 5th | 12:30 pm, KMC 5-80 | Outsourcing Discount or Paradox? An Analysis of Long-Term Abnormal Stock Returns across Outsourcing Contracts | |
| Marc Smith Microsoft | Tuesday, February 12th | 12:30 pm, KMC 5-80 | Visualizing the Signatures of Social Roles in Online Discussion Groups | |
| Sonny Tambe Wharton | Thursday, February 14th | 4:15 pm, KMC 5-80 | Job Hopping, Knowledge Spillovers, and the Information Technology Revolution | |
| Yiling Chen Yahoo! | Thursday, February 21th | 4:15 pm, KMC 5-80 | Strategic Behavior and Combinatorial Betting in Prediction Markets | |
| Rica Gonen Yahoo! | Thursday, March 6th | 4:15 pm, KMC 5-80 | Truthful Adaptive Sponsored Search Mechanisms | |
| Emmanuelle Vaast LIU | Wednesday, April 9th | 4:15 pm, KMC 5-80 | Trans-situated learning: Supporting a network of practice with an information infrastructure | |
| Kartik Hosanagar Wharton | Thursday, April 17th | 4:15 pm, KMC 5-80 | Blockbuster Culture’s Next Rise or Fall: The Impact of Recommender Systems on Sales Diversity | |
| FALL 2007 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SPEAKER | DATE | TIME/ LOCATION | TITLE | |
| Ron Burt University of Chicago | Thursday, September 20th | 4:15 pm, KMC 5-90 | Social Capital Process Clues fromNetwork Spillover Paper | |
| Lada Adamic University of Michigan | Thursday, October 18th | 4:15 pm, KMC 5-90 | Expertise Sharing Dynamics in Online Forums Paper | |
| Lorin Hitt U. Penn, Wharton | Thursday, October 25th | 4:00 pm, KMC 5-90 | Offshoring, Skills, and Employment: Evidence from Information Technology Workers, 1995-2006 Paper | |
| Usama Fayyed Yahoo! | Thursday, November 1st | 4:15 pm, KMC 5-90 | Inventing the New Sciences of the Internet: Towards Understanding the New Interactive Media | |
| Claudia Perlich IBM | Thursday, November 8th | 4:15 pm, KMC 5-90 | KDD-CUP goes NETFLIX: Modeling Movie Ratings using Poisson Regression Paper | |
| Tridas Mukhopadhyay CMU | Thursday, November 15th | 4:15 pm, KMC 5-90 | How do Project Managers’ Skills Affect Project Success in IT Outsourcing? Paper | |
| David Parkes Harvard | Thursday, November 29th | 4:15 pm, KMC 5-90 | Explorations in Computational Mechanism Design | |
| SPRING 2007 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SPEAKER | DATE | TIME/ LOCATION | TITLE | |
| Alok Gupta University of Minnesota | Thursday, January 25th | 4:15 pm, KMC 5-80 | Predicting Bidders’ Willingness to Pay in Online Multi-Unit Ascending Auctions: Analytical and Empirical Insights Paper | |
| David Blei Princeton University | Thursday, February 1st | 4:15 pm, KMC 5-80 | Modeling Science: Topic Models of Scientific Journals and Other Large Text Databases Paper 1, Paper 2, Paper 3, Video | |
| Eric Overby Emory University | Thursday, February 8th | 4:15 pm, KMC 5-80 | Electronic vs. Physical Market Mechanisms: Evaluating Multiple Theories in the Wholesale Automotive Market Paper, Video | |
| Rahul Telang Carnegie Mellon University | Thursday, February 15th | 4:15 pm, KMC 5-80 | Empirical Analysis of Mobile Voice and SMS Service: A Structural Model Paper , Video | |
| Andrew McAfee Harvard Business School | Thursday, March 1st | 4:15 pm, KMC 5-80 | Is There Evidence that IT Matters?: Recent Changes in the Competitive Dynamics of US Industries and their Association with IT Intensity Paper , Video | |
| Brian Davison Lehigh | Thursday, March 8th | 4:15 pm, KMC 5-80 | Contextual Link Analysis for Web Search Paper , Video | |
| Stu Feldman IBM | Thursday, March 29th | 4:15 pm, KMC 5-80 | Research Directions in Services Video | |
| Kevin Crowston Syracuse University | Thursday, April 5th | 4:15 pm, KMC 5-80 | The 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 12th | 4:15 pm, KMC 5-80 | The Complexity of Computing a Nash Equilibrium Paper , Slides , Video | |
| Erik Brynjolfsson MIT | Monday, April 16th | 12:30 pm, KMC 4-120 | Goodbye Pareto Principle, Hello Long Tail Paper | |
| Erik Brynjolfsson MIT | Wednesday, April 18th | 4:15 pm, KMC 5-85 | IT, Productivity, and Organizational Capital | |
| Lars Bo Jeppesen Copenhagen School of Business | Thursday, April 26th | 4:15 pm, KMC 5-80 | Lead Users as Facilitators of Knowledge Sharing in a Community Setting Paper | |
| FALL 2006 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SPEAKER | DATE | TIME/ LOCATION | TITLE | |
| Paul Carlile Boston University | Thursday, September 21st | 4:15 pm, KMC 5-80 | The Challenge of Novelty in Distributed Innovation Systems: Stretching from OSS to Toyota | |
| John Moody ICSI Berkeley | Thursday, September 28th | 4:15 pm, KMC 5-80 | Direct Reinforcement Learning: Application to Games and Finance Paper 1, Paper 2 | |
| Christos Faloutsos Carnegie Mellon University | Thursday, October 5th | 4:15 pm, KMC 5-80 | Data Mining Using Fractals and Power Laws Paper 1, Paper 2, Paper 3 | |
| Glenn Ellison MIT | Thursday, October 12th | 4:15 pm, KMC 5-80 | Taxes, Geography, and Online-Offline Competition Paper | |
| Ritu Agarwal University of Maryland | Thursday, October 26th | 4:15 pm, KMC 5-80 | Online Infomediaries and Price Discrimination: Evidence from the Autoretailing Sector Paper | |
| David Pennock Yahoo! Inc | Thursday, November 2nd | 4:15 pm, KMC 5-80 | Information and Complexity in Securities Markets Paper | |
| Sumit Sarkar UT Dallas | Thursday, November 9th | 4:15 pm, KMC 5-80 | Resource Allocation Policies for Personalization in Content Delivery Sites Paper | |
| Ramayya Krishnan Carnegie Mellon University | Thursday, November 16th | 4:15 pm, KMC 5-80 | On Software Diversification, Correlated Failures and Risk Management Paper | |
| Michael Baye Indiana University | Thursday, November 30th | 4:15 pm, KMC 5-80 | Brand and Price Advertising in Online Markets Paper | |
| FALL 2005 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| SPEAKER | DATE | TIME/ LOCATION | TITLE |
| Ivan Png of National U. of Singapore | Thursday, September 8th | 4:15 pm, KMC 5-80 | Consumer Privacy and Marketing Avoidance Paper |
| Sanjeev Dewan of UC Irvine | Thursday, September 15th | 4:15 pm, KMC 5-80 | Investigating the Risk-Return Relationship of Information Technology Investment: Firm-Level Empirical Analysis Paper |
| Alex Tuzhilin of New York University | Thursday, September 22nd | 4:15 pm, KMC 5-80 | Building and Querying Large Modelbases Paper |
| Junghoo Cho of UCLA | Thursday, September 29th | 4:15 pm, KMC 5-80 | Search 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 6th | 4:15 pm, KMC 5-80 | The Everyday Use of New Technologies: Transforming Social Networks, Locally and Globally? |
| John Morgan of UC Berkeley | Friday, October 14th | 11:00 am, KMC 5-80 | Estimating 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 3rd | 4:15 pm, KMC 5-80 | Managing Risk Exposure in a Services Business |
| Mayuram Krishnan of University of Michigan | Thursday, November 10th | 4:15 pm, KMC 5-80 | The Effect of Information Technology Investments on Customer Satisfaction: Theory and Evidence Paper |
| Evgeniou Theodoros of INSEAD | Thursday, November 17th | 4:15 pm, KMC 5-80 | Adaptive Choice-based Conjoint Analysis for Online Market Research Using Machine Learning and Optimization Paper 1 Paper 2 |
| Amy Greenwald of Brown University | Thursday, December 1st | 4:15 pm, KMC 5-80 | Bid Determination in Simultaneous Auctions Paper |
| SPRING 2006 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| SPEAKER | DATE | TIME/ LOCATION | TITLE |
| Kunsoo Han University of Minnesota | Thursday, February 2nd | 4:15 pm, KMC 5-80 | Economic Contributions of IT Outsourcing: An Industry-Level Analysis Paper |
| Karim Lakhani MIT | Wednesday, February 15th | 4:15 pm, KMC 3-120 | Broadcast Search in Scientific and Technical Problem Solving: Finding Solutions from the Periphery Paper |
| Pamela Hinds Stanford University | Thursday, February 16th | 4:15 pm, KMC 5-80 | High Viscosity Knowledge Sharing in Global Work: The Role of Affective Bonds |
| Mohammad Mahdian Microsoft | Tuesday, February 21st | 12:30 pm, KMC 8-170 | Theoretical Challenges in the Design of Advertisement Auctions Paper 1 Paper 2 Paper 3 |
| Gerald Kane Emory University | Thursday, February 23rd | 4:20 pm, KMC 3-120 | Casting the Net: Towards a Theory of Multimodal Knowledge Networks Paper |
| Sinan Aral MIT | Tuesday, February 28th | 12:30 pm, KMC 5-80 | Information, Technology and Information Worker Productivity:Task Level Evidence Paper |
| Samer Faraj University of Maryland | CANCELED | ||
| Victor Lavrenko University of Massachusetts | Tuesday, March 7th | 12:30 pm, KMC 5-80 | A Generative View of Relevance |
| Jonathan Kelner MIT | Thursday, March 9th | 4:20 pm, KMC 3-120 | A Randomized Polynomial-Time Simplex Algorithm for Linear Programming Paper |
| Prabhakar Raghavan Yahoo! Research | Thursday, March 23rd | 4:15 pm, KMC 5-80 | Query Incentive Networks Paper |
| V. Sambamurthy Michigan State University | Thursday, March 30th | 4:15 pm, KMC 5-80 | Complementarities between Supply Chain Processes and Information Technologies: The Impacts on Performance of Manufacturing Firms Paper |
| Il-Horn Hann University of Southern California | Thursday, April 6th | 4:15 pm, KMC 5-80 | Risk Averse Bidding in Name-Your-Own-Price Channels |
| John King University of Michigan | Thursday, April 13th | 4:15 pm, KMC 3-60 | Information Systems, Enterprise Transformation, and the Future of Higher Education |
| Barrie Nault University of Calgary | Thursday, April 20th | 4:15 pm, KMC 5-80 | Complementarities between Supply Chain Processes and Information Industry Level Supplier-Driven IT Spillovers Paper |
| Ravi Bapna University of Connecticut | Thursday, April 27th | 4:15 pm, KMC 5-80 | Do Market Characteristics Impact the Relationship between Retailer Characteristics and Online Price? Paper |
| Hsinchun Chen University of Arizona | Thursday, May 4th | 2:00 pm, KMC 5-85 | Intelligence and Security Informatics for International Security: Information Sharing and Data Mining |
| Gautam Ray UT Austin | Thursday, May 11th | 4:15 pm, KMC 5-80 | The Interaction between Knowledge Codification and Knowledge Sharing Network Paper |
| SPRING 2005 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SPEAKER | DATE | TIME/ LOCATION | TITLE | |
| Paul Resnick University of Michigan | Thursday, January 27th | 4:15 pm, KMC 5-80 | Eliciting Informative Feedback: The Peer-Prediction Method PDF | |
| Abraham Seidmann University of Rochester | Thursday, February 3rd | 4:15 pm, KMC 5-80 | Analyzing the Simultaneous Use of Auctions and Posted Prices for ON-Line Selling PDF | |
| Chris Dellarocas University of Maryland | Thursday, February 10th | 4:15 pm, KMC 5-80 | Strategic Manipulation of Internet Opinion Forums: Implications for Consumers and Firms PDF | |
| Zan Huang University of Arizona | Thursday, February 17th | 4:15 pm, KMC 5-80 | Graph-based Analysis for E-commerce Recommendation PDF 1 PDF 2 | |
| Brian Pentland Michigan State University | Thursday, February 24th | 4:15 pm, KMC 5-80 | Designing Routines PDF | |
| Sunil Mithas University of Michigan | Thursday, March 3rd | 4:15 pm, KMC 5-80 | Effect of Information Technology on Customer Satisfaction PDF *CANCELED* | |
| Haim Mendelson Stanford University *department wide seminar | Tuesday, April 5th | 4:15 pm, KMC 5-80 | Differentiation, R&D Investment and Vertical Integration | |
| Ulrike Schultze Southern Methodist University | Thursday, April 14th | 4:15 pm, KMC 5-80 | Incorporating Self-Serve Technology into Co-Production Designs PDF | |
| Wanda Orlikowski MIT *department wide seminar | Thursday, April 21st | 4:15 pm, KMC 5-80 | Scaffolding Work: Taking Technology Seriously in Studies of Organizations | |
| Karim Lakhani MIT | Thursday, April 28st | 4:15 pm, KMC 5-80 | The Primacy of the Periphery in Open Source Software Communities | |
| Vijay Gurbaxani UC Irvine | Thursday, May 5th | 4:15 pm, KMC 5-80 | The Value of Information Systems Outsourcing Arrangements: An Event Study Analysis | |