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
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

 

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