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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 2024 – Spring 2025
Please sort or search by seminar series (e.g., Accounting, Business Analytics, Finance, Marketing, Operations Management, Organizational Behavior, Strategy and Environment).
| Date & Time | Seminar Series | Speaker | Topic | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08/30/2024 10:30 am — 11:45 am | Finance | Kris Jacobs, University of Houston | Risk and Monotonic Pricing Kernels | McNair Hall 216 |
| 09/6/2024 10:30 am — 11:45 am | Finance | 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 am | Finance | Wenyu Wang, Indiana University | See the Gap: Firm Returns and Shareholder Incentives | McNair Hall 316 |
| 10/02/2024 10:00 am — 11:30 am | Business Analytics | Sean Cao, University of Maryland | AI and Fintech Research | McNair Hall 116 |
| 10/04/2024 10:00 am — 11:30 am | Accounting | 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 am | Finance | 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 am | Accounting | 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 am | Finance | Nicolae Gârleanu, Washington University | Finance in a Time of Disruptive Growth | McNair Hall 216 |
| 10/25/2024 10:00 am — 11:30 am | Accounting | 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 am | Finance | Vyacheslav (Slava) Fos, Boston College | Local Monetary Policy | McNair Hall 212 |
| 11/01/2024 10:30 am — 11:45 am | Finance | Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, Columbia University | Rent Guarantee Insurance | McNair Hall 314 |
| 11/04/2024 10:30 am — 11:45 am | Finance | 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 pm | Finance | Michael Ewens, Columbia University | Corporate Hierarchy | McNair Hall 216 |
| 11/08/2024 10:00 am — 11:30 am | Accounting | 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 pm | Operations 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 pm | Strategy 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 am | Accounting | 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 am | Finance | 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 am | Accounting | Rahul Vashishtha, Duke University | Earnings Information Spillovers and Depositor Contagion | McNair Hall 316 |
| 11/22/2024 11:15 am — 12:30 pm | Operations Management | Tinglong Dai, Johns Hopkins University | Advancing Medical Artificial Intelligence Through Business Research | McNair Hall 216 |
| 11/25/2024 10:30 am — 11:45 am | Finance | 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 pm | Operations Management | Will Ma, Columbia University | Randomized Rounding for E-Commerce Fulfillment | McNair Hall 218 |
| 01/15/2025 10:00 am — 11:30 am | Accounting | 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 am | Accounting | 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 pm | Organizational 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 |
| 02/07/2025 10:30 am — 11:45 am | Finance | Sabrina Howell, New York University | Leveraged Payouts: How Using New Debt to Pay Returns in Private Equity Affects Firms, Employees, Creditors, and Investors | McNair Hall 314 |
| 03/14/2025 10:30 am — 11:45 am | Finance | Simon Gervais, Duke University | TBD | TBD |
| 02/21/2025 10:00 am — 11:30 am | Business Analytics | Dennis Zhang, Washington University | TBD | McNair Hall 318 |
| 02/21/2025 11:00 am — 12:30 pm | Organizational Behavior | Michel Anteby, Boston University | TBD | McNair Hall 216 |
| 02/21/2025 12:30 pm — 2:00 pm | Strategy and Environment | Anita McGahan, University of Toronto | TBD | McNair Hall 212 |
| 02/28/2025 12:30 pm — 2:00 pm | Strategy and Environment | Jay Barney, University of Utah | TBD | TBD |
| 03/03/2025 12:15 pm — 1:45 pm | Dean'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 pm | Organizational Behavior | Nick Hays, Michigan State University | TBD | McNair Hall 314 |
| 04/25/2025 10:30 am — 11:45 am | Finance | Erica Jiang, University of Southern California | TBD | McNair Hall 314 |
| 04/11/2025 10:00 am — 11:30 am | Accounting | Spencer Anderson, Indiana University | TBD | McNair Hall 312 |
| 04/04/2025 10:30 am — 11:45 am | Finance | Pascal Noel, University of Chicago | TBD | TBD |
| 04/04/2025 11:00 am — 12:30 pm | Organizational Behavior | Michael Pratt, Boston College | TBD | McNair Hall 314 |
| 04/04/2025 12:30 pm — 2:00 pm | Strategy and Environment | Jiao Luo, University of Minnesota | TBD | TBD |
| 03/28/2025 10:00 am — 11:30 am | Accounting | Rimmy Tommy, University of Chicago | TBD | McNair Hall 316 |
| 04/11/2025 10:00 am — 11:30 am | Business Analytics | Dacheng Xiu, University of Chicago | TBD | TBD |
| 04/11/2025 12:00 pm — 1:30 pm | Organizational Behavior | Amandine Ody-Brasier, McGill University | TBD | TBD |
| 04/15/2025 10:30 am — 11:45 am | Dean'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 pm | Strategy and Environment | Jeffrey York, University of Colorado Boulder | TBD | McNair Hall 212 |
| 04/25/2025 10:00 am — 11:30 am | Accounting | Charles McClure, University of Chicago | TBD | McNair Hall 312 |
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