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Faculty Research Seminars
Bringing leading scholars from around the world to Rice Business, our research seminars provide a forum to discuss cutting-edge research and facilitate academic collaboration with our faculty and Ph.D. students. Learn more about our speakers and seminars for the current academic year below.
If you have any questions, please reach out to Thomas Doser at thomas.doser@rice.edu.
Job talks are excluded from this seminar list.
Fall 2025 – Spring 2026
Please sort or search by seminar series (e.g., Accounting, Finance, Marketing, Operations Management, Organizational Behavior, Strategy and Environment).
Fall 2025
| Date & Time | Seminar Series | Speaker | Topic | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09/05/2025 10:30 am - 11:45 am | Finance | Jonathan Cohn, University of Texas at Austin | TBD | McNair Hall 312 |
| 09/12/2025 10:00 am - 11:30 am | Accounting | Spencer Anderson, Indiana University | TBD | McNair Hall 317 |
| 09/12/2025 10:30 am - 11:45 am | Finance | Anthony Defusco, University of Wisconsin–Madison | TBD | McNair Hall 214 |
| 09/25/2025 10:30 am - 11:45 am | Dean's Distinguished Visiting Fellow (Finance) | Semyon Malamud, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne | Complex Rational Expectations Equilibria | McNair Hall 316 |
| 10/03/2025 10:30 am - 11:45 am | Finance | Thomas Ernst, University of Maryland | TBD | TBD |
| 10/03/2025 10:00 am - 11:30 am | Accounting | John Donovan, University of Notre Dame | TBD | TBD |
| 10/09/2025 10:30 am - 11:45 am | Finance | Manju Puri, Duke University | TBD | McNair Hall 312 |
| 10/10/2025 10:00 am - 11:30 am | Accounting | Evgeny Petrov, University of Zurich | TBD | TBD |
| 10/17/2025 10:30 am - 11:45 am | Finance | Greg Buchak, Stanford University | TBD | McNair Hall 312 |
| 10/17/2025 10:00 am - 11:30 am | Accounting | Greg Miller, University of Michigan | TBD | TBD |
| 10/24/2025 10:00 am - 11:30 am | Accounting | Stephen Ryan, New York University | TBD | TBD |
| 10/31/2025 11:00 am - 12:15 pm | Operations Management | Kenan Arifoglu, University College London | TBD | TBD |
| 11/07/2025 10:30 am - 11:45 am | Finance | Viktor Todorov, Northwestern University | TBD | McNair Hall 216 |
| 11/14/2025 10:30 am - 11:45 am | Finance | Jeffrey Coles, University of Utah | TBD | TBD |
| 11/21/2025 10:30 am - 11:45 am | Finance | Michaela Pagel, Washington University | TBD | McNair Hall 316 |
| 11/21/2025 10:00 am - 11:30 am | Accounting | Chloe Xie, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | TBD | TBD |
| 12/05/2025 10:30 am - 11:45 am | Finance | Neil Bhutta, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | TBD | McNair Hall 318 |
SPRING 2026
| Date & Time | Seminar Series | Speaker | Topic | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01/23/2026 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm | Strategy and Environment | Victor Bennett, University of Utah | TBD | TBD |
| 02/20/2026 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm | Strategy and Environment | Rahul Kapoor, University of Pennsylvania | TBD | TBD |
| 02/27/2026 10:30 am - 11:45 am | Finance | Lu Han, University of Wisconsin-Madison | TBD | TBD |
| 03/6/2026 10:30 am - 11:45 am | Finance | Manuel Adelino, Duke University | TBD | TBD |
| 03/20/2026 10:30 am - 11:45 am | Finance | Sheridan Titman, University of Texas at Austin | TBD | TBD |
| 03/27/2026 10:30 am - 11:45 am | Finance | Samuel Antill, Harvard University | TBD | TBD |
| 04/10/2026 10:30 am - 11:45 am | Finance | Matt Ringgenberg, University of Utah | TBD | TBD |
| 04/17/2026 10:30 am - 11:45 am | Finance | Mark Egan, Harvard University | TBD | TBD |
| 04/24/2026 10:30 am - 11:45 am | Finance | Carola Frydman, Northwestern University | TBD | TBD |
Past Seminars
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Date & Time Seminar Series Speaker Topic Location 01/15/2025
10:00 am — 11:30 amAccounting Bin Ke, National University of Singapore What Do Resumes Tell Us About Accounting Rookie Job Candidates’ Research Potential? McNair Hall 314 01/17/2025
10:00 am — 11:30 amAccounting Matt Phillips, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Odd Lots & Optics: Manipulation in Response to Scrutiny McNair Hall 312 01/31/2025
12:00 pm — 1:30 pmOrganizational Behavior Adina Sterling, Columbia University Is it the Expression that Counts? Gender and the Hiring of Women and Men into Entry-Level Sales Jobs McNair Hall 216 03/14/2025
10:30 am — 11:45 amFinance Simon Gervais, Duke University Money Management and Real Investment McNair Hall 216 02/21/2025
10:00 am — 11:30 amBusiness Analytics Dennis Zhang, Washington University A New Estimator for Encouragement Design in Randomized Controlled Trials When the Exclusion Restriction Is Violated McNair Hall 318 02/21/2025
11:00 am — 12:30 pmOrganizational Behavior Michel Anteby, Boston University Why What Resists is Often Revealing McNair Hall 216 02/21/2025
12:30 pm — 2:00 pmStrategy and Environment Anita McGahan, University of Toronto The Lifesaving Impact of Electronic Medical Records for HIV Patients McNair Hall 318 02/28/2025
12:30 pm — 2:00 pmStrategy and Environment Jay Barney, University of Utah Theories of firms and the emergence of multinational enterprises: the organizational and managerial implications of solving transactional problems versus creating exchange value McNair Hall 316 03/03/2025
12:15 pm — 1:45 pmDean's Distinguished Visiting Fellow (Organizational Behavior) Aparna Joshi, University of Michigan It’s not You, it’s Us: From Leader to Stakeholder-oriented Theorizing about Gender Bias in Leadership Settings McNair Hall 317 03/07/2025
12:00 pm — 1:30 pmOrganizational Behavior Nick Hays, Michigan State University The Social Relations-Approach Theory of Social Hierarchy: Understanding the Distinct Psychological Experiences of Status and Power McNair Hall 314 04/25/2025
10:30 am — 11:45 amFinance Erica Jiang, University of Southern California Branching Out Inequality: The Impact of Credit Equality Policies in the Non-Bank Era McNair Hall 314 04/04/2025
10:30 am — 11:45 amFinance Pascal Noel, University of Chicago Earnings Instability McNair Hall 125 04/04/2025
11:00 am — 12:30 pmOrganizational Behavior Michael Pratt, Boston College Moving Beyond Identity Polarization Towards Depolarization & Reconciliation McNair Hall 314 04/04/2025
12:30 pm — 2:00 pmStrategy and Environment Jiao Luo, University of Minnesota The Pro-Competitive Effect of Mission-Oriented Organizations in Solving Grand Challenges: How Competition from Cooperative ISPs Helps Bridge the Digital Divide McNair Hall 317 03/28/2025
10:00 am — 11:30 amAccounting Rimmy Tomy, University of Chicago Banking on Trust: Supervisory Transparency and Depositors’ Actions McNair Hall 316 04/11/2025
10:00 am — 11:30 amBusiness Analytics Dacheng Xiu, University of Chicago Expected Returns and Large Language Models McNair Hall 316 04/11/2025
12:00 pm — 1:30 pmOrganizational Behavior Amandine Ody-Brasier, McGill University (Un)necessary Evil: The Role of Work Context in Enabling Abuse in U.S. Nursing Homes McNair Hall 317 04/14/2025
10:30 am — 11:45 amDean's Distinguished Visiting Fellow (Finance) Marco Pagano, University of Naples Federico II Careers and Wages in Family Firms: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data McNair Hall 318 04/18/2025
12:30 pm — 2:00 pmStrategy and Environment Jeffrey York, University of Colorado Boulder Catching the Wave or Wiping Out? The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of Ocean Energy in the United Kingdom McNair Hall 212 04/25/2025
10:00 am — 11:30 amAccounting Charles McClure, University of Chicago The Real Effects of Public DEI Concerns McNair Hall 312 05/05/2025
2:00 pm — 3:15 amOperations Management Vasiliki Kostami, HEC Paris Advertising by Recruiting Influencers McNair Hall 317 -
Date & Time Seminar Series Speaker Topic Location 08/30/2024
10:30 am — 11:45 amFinance Kris Jacobs, University of Houston Risk and Monotonic Pricing Kernels McNair Hall 216 09/6/2024
10:30 am — 11:45 amFinance Robert Marquez, University of California, Davis Bank Fragility and the Incentives to Manage Risk McNair Hall 312 09/27/ 2024
10:30 am — 11:45 amFinance Wenyu Wang, Indiana University See the Gap: Firm Returns and Shareholder Incentives McNair Hall 316 10/02/2024
10:00 am — 11:30 amBusiness Analytics Sean Cao, University of Maryland AI and Fintech Research McNair Hall 116 10/04/2024
10:00 am — 11:30 amAccounting Pierre Jinghong Liang, Carnegie Mellon University Pattern Recognition and Anomaly Detection in Bookkeeping Data McNair Hall 314 10/04/2024
10:30 am — 11:45 amFinance Walker Ray, London School of Economics Optimal Macro-Financial Stabilization in a New Keynesian Preferred Habitat Model McNair Hall 312 10/18/2024
10:00 am — 11:30 amAccounting Brady Twedt, Texas A&M University Sound Analysis? The Role of Investment Podcasts in the Pricing of Accounting Information McNair Hall 125 10/18/2024
10:30 am — 11:45 amFinance Nicolae Gârleanu, Washington University Finance in a Time of Disruptive Growth McNair Hall 216 10/25/2024
10:00 am — 11:30 amAccounting Sarah Zechman, University of Colorado Boulder Regulation and Processing Costs: Evidence From the Hyperlink Mandate McNair Hall 216 10/25/2024
10:30 am — 11:45 amFinance Vyacheslav (Slava) Fos, Boston College Local Monetary Policy McNair Hall 212 11/01/2024
10:30 am — 11:45 amFinance Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, Columbia University Rent Guarantee Insurance McNair Hall 314 11/04/2024
10:30 am — 11:45 amFinance Roni Michaely, HKU Business School Implicit Versus Explicit Contracting in Executive Compensation for Environmental and Social Performance McNair Hall 316 11/07/2024
1:00 pm — 2:15 pmFinance Michael Ewens, Columbia University Corporate Hierarchy McNair Hall 216 11/08/2024
10:00 am — 11:30 amAccounting Jennifer Wu Tucker, University of Florida Corporate Use of Artificial Intelligence and Subsequent Product Market Performance McNair Hall 126 11/08/2024
11:15 am — 12:30 pmOperations Management Ömer Karaduman, Stanford University Economics of Grid-Scale Energy Storage in Wholesale Electricity Markets McNair Hall 212 11/08/2024
12:30 pm — 2:00 pmStrategy and Environment Timothy Werner, University of Texas at Austin Walking the Talk in Politics and Sustainability: (Mis) Alignment of Corporate Discourse and Lobbying on Environmental and Social Issues McNair Hall 216 11/15/2024
10:00 am — 11:30 amAccounting Christian Leuz, University of Chicago Internalizing Externalities through Public Pressure: Transparency Regulation for Fracking, Drilling Activity and Water Quality McNair Hall 312 11/15/2024
10:30 am — 11:45 amFinance Jonathan Zinman, Dartmouth College Drivers of Default: How Input Utilization and Loan Repayment Respond to Randomized Debt Restructuring and Other Shocks McNair Hall 314 11/22/2024
10:00 am — 11:30 amAccounting Rahul Vashishtha, Duke University Earnings Information Spillovers and Depositor Contagion McNair Hall 316 11/22/2024
11:15 am — 12:30 pmOperations Management Tinglong Dai, Johns Hopkins University Advancing Medical Artificial Intelligence Through Business Research McNair Hall 216 11/25/2024
10:30 am — 11:45 amFinance Bing Han, University of Toronto Social Learning and Sentiment Contagion in the Bitcoin Market McNair Hall 316 12/06/2024
11:15 am — 12:30 pmOperations Management Will Ma, Columbia University Randomized Rounding for E-Commerce Fulfillment McNair Hall 218
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