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Past TOPS-Tech Research Seminars

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
P eter 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
P inar 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
C hris Forman (Cornell)	May 9, 2019 12:30 - 1:45 pm	KMC 4-90	To Be Announced
E mma 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

2015 - 2016 Academic Year
Spring 2016:
Speaker/Affiliation	Date/Time	Room	Presentation Title
Hanna Halaburda (NYU Stern)	April 14, 2016 12:30-1:45pm	KMC 3-50	Can 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 3-50	The 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 3-110	Designing Accessible Nonvisual Interaction for Mobile Devices
Bo Cowgill (Columbia University)	May 12, 2016 12:30-1:45pm	TBD	TBD
Fall 2015:
Speaker/Affiliation	Date/Time	Room	Presentation Title
Ching Ren (University of Minnesota)	September 11, 2015 12:30pm-1:45pm	KMC 3-130	Understanding 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 3-130	Companies 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 3-130	Cheap 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 3-130	The Limits of Reputation in Platform Markets: An Empirical Analysis and Field Experiment
Christian Catalini (MIT)	October 29, 2015 12:30pm-1:45pm	KMC 3-130	MIT Digital Currencies Experiment
Youngjin Yoo (Temple University)	November 5, 2015 12:30pm-1:45pm	KMC 3-130	Design and Evolution of Complex Socio-technical Systems: An Organizational Genetics Approach
Michael Bernstein (Stanford University)	November 12, 2015 12:30pm-1:45pm	KMC 3-130	Crowdsourcing a Meeting of Minds
Liz Gerber (Northwestern University)	November 19, 2015 12:30-1:45pm	KMC 3-130	Organizations and Technology to Empower Collective Innovation
Pedro Ferreira (Carnegie Mellon University)	December 3, 2015 12:30-1:45pm	KMC 3-130	Target the ego or target the group: Evidence from a randomized experiment in pro-active churn management

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

2013 - 2014 Academic Year
Spring 2014
Speaker	Date/Room	Presentation 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.
Speaker	Date/Room	Presentation 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
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 Facebook	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	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
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

Seminars before 2005