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Faculty members introduce their current research within an informal lunch setting for MBA, MS and PhD students.

Upcoming Events

Angela Lee, Franklin Pitcher Johnson Jr. Professor of Professional Practice of Finance and Economics, Finance Division and Co-Director, Eugene Lang Entrepreneurship Center, spring 2027.  

2026 Talks

  • Kalash Jain, Assistant Professor of Business, Accounting Division, discussing ‘Wisdom of guidelines that the S&P committee uses to create the s&p500 index’
  • Simon Oh, Assistant Professor of Finance, discussing ‘how individual investors perform in private equity and what it means for the democratization of private markets.’
  • Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, Earle W. Kazis and Benjamin Schore Professor of Real Estate and Professor of Finance, discussing ‘predicting who are skilled bond mutual fund managers with machine learning techniques.’
  • Simon Oh, Assistant Professor of Business, Finance Division discussing 'Rating Without Market Discipline' and Yao Liu, Associate Professor of Business, Accounting Division discussing 'The Private-Firm Auditing Research Agenda'
 
 

2025 Talks

  • Federico Mainardi, Assistant Professor of Finance presenting Who Harvests? Tax Alpha and Heterogeneous Responses to Capital Gains Taxation
  • Tianyi Peng, Assistant Professor of Decision Risk & Operations presenting LLM-Based Digital Twin Simulation: Opportunity and Challenge

2024 Talks

  •  Kalash Jain, Assistant Professor of Accounting and Emmanuel Yimfor, Assistant Professor of Finance
  • Lisa Yao Liu, Assistant Professor of Accounting presenting: "Is Sustainability a No Free Lunch?"

2023 Talks

  • Wenxin Du, Henry Kaufman Professor of Financial Institutions presenting: “Quantitative Tightening and the US Treasury Market”
  • Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, Earle W. Kazis and Benjamin Schore Professor of Real Estate presenting: “Office Real Estate Apocalypse”
  • Xuelin Li, Assistant Professor of Finance presenting: “The Social Cost of Liquidity Disclosure, Evidence from Hospitals”
  • Parinitha Sastry, Assistant Professor of Finance presenting: “The Moral Preference of Investors: Experimental Evidence”
  • Dominic Supera, Assistant Professor of Finance presenting: "Running Out of Time (Deposits): Falling Interest Rates and the Decline of Business Lending, Investment and Firm Creation"
  • Mark Zurack, Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of Finance presenting: "Current Events and Controversies in the World of Exchange Traded Funds and ESG Investing: A View from the Boardroom and Classroom"

2022 Talks

Michael Ewens, David L. and Elsie M. Dodd Professor of Finance presenting: "Local Newspapers under Private Equity Ownership" 

 Omid Malekan, Associate in Business (Finance) presenting: "How Crypto can Counterintuitively Reduce Financial Risk"
 

Shiva Rajgopal, Kester and Byrnes Professor of Accounting and Auditing presenting: "Are CEOs Actually Paid for Performance?" and Jane Li, Assistant Professor of Finance presenting: "Investor Composition in the U.S. Bond Market"

Wei Jiang, Arthur F. Burns Professor of Free and Competitive Enterprise (Finance) presenting: "How to Talk When a Machine is Listening?" and Laura Veldkamp, Leon G. Cooperman Professor of Finance and Economics presenting: "The Changing Economics of Knowledge Production"
 

How to Talk When a Machine is Listening and The Changing Economics of Knowledge Production

 

2021 Talks

 Harry Mamaysky, Faculty Director and Professor of Professional Practice (Finance) presenting: "Predicting the Oil Market" and Kriste Krstovski, Adjunct Assistant Professor (Decision, Risk & Operations) presenting: "Assessing Corporate Climate Through Big Data"

Predicting the Oil Market and Assessing Corporate Climate Through Big Data

Simona Abis, Assistant Professor of Finance presenting: "Learning From Prospectuses" and Anton Lines, Assistant Professor of Finance presenting: "Text-Based Mutual Fund Peer Groups"

Learning from Prospectuses and Text-Based Mutual Fund Peer Groups

Vanessa Burbano, Assistant Professor of Management presenting "The Demotivating Effects of Communicating a Social-Political Stance" and Kathryn Harrigan, Henry R. Kravis Professor of Business Leadership in Management presenting "Corporate Renewal and Turnaround of Troubled Businesses: The Private Equity Advantage"

The Demotivating Effects of Communicating a Social-Political Stance and Corporate Renewal and Turnaround of Troubled Businesses: The Private Equity Advantage

Vanessa Burbano, Assistant Professor of Management: The Demotivating Effects of Communicating a Social-Political Stance

The Demotivating Effects of Communicating a Social-Political Stance

Kathryn Harrigan, Henry R. Kravis Professor of Business Leadership in Management: Corporate Renewal and Turnaround of Troubled Businesses: The Private Equity Advantage

Corporate Renewal and Turnaround of Troubled Businesses: The Private Equity Advantage

Olivier Darmouni, Associate Professor of Finance: Bank Liquidity Provision Across the Firm Size and Distribution

Sandra Matz, David W. Zalaznick Associate Professor of Management: Using Big Data to Personalize Financial Decision-Making

2020 Talks

Carri Chan, Associate Professor of Decision, Risk, and Operations: Predictive Analytics to Guide Early Transfers to the ICU

Will Ma, Assistant Professor of Decision, Risk, and Operations: Optimizing for Strategy Diversity in the Design of Video Games

Laura Boudreau, Assistant Professor of Economics: Protecting Employee Privacy when Asking Sensitive Questions: COVID-19 Applications & Yiming Ma, Assistant Professor of Finance: Disruptions in the Debt Markets in the COVID-19 Crisis

 

Laura Boudreau: "Protecting Employee Privacy when Asking Sensitive Questions: COVID-19 Applications"

Yiming Ma: "Disruptions in Debt Markets in the COVID-19 Crisis"

Andrey Simonov, Assistant Professor of Marketing: "The Persuasive Effects of Fox News: Non-Compliance with Social Distancing in COVID-19 Pandemic"

Charles Calomiris, Henry Kaufman Professor of Financial Institutions: Measuring the Cost of Regulation

Gita Johar, Meyer Feldberg Professor of Marketing: Thinking About Financial Deprivation: Rumination and Decision Making Among the Poor

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