No Free Lunch Seminar Series (Faculty Research Talks)
At each research seminar, attended by invited MBA, MS and PhD students and now open in a virtual format to alumni and business practitioners, faculty members introduce their current research within an informal lunch setting. These seminars are videotaped and made publicly available along with the associated research content, see below.
Spring 2024 Faculty Research Talks
April 9, 2024:
Featuring Kalash Jain, Assistant Professor of Accounting and Emmanuel Yimfor, Assistant Professor of Finance
March 26, 2024:
Lisa Cao Liu, Assistant Professor of Accounting presenting: "Is Sustainability a No Free Lunch?"
Prior Talks
Nov. 28, 2023:
Wenxin Du, Henry Kaufman Professor of Financial Institutions presenting: “Quantitative Tightening and the US Treasury Market” Link to research article
Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, Earle W. Kazis and Benjamin Schore Professor of Real Estate presenting: “Office Real Estate Apocalypse” Link to research
Oct. 31, 2023:
March 28, 2023:
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"
November 29, 2022:
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"
October 26, 2022: 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"
March 2, 2022: 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"
December 6, 2021: 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"
November 8, 2021: Simona Abis, Assistant Professor of Finance presenting: "Learning From Prospectuses" and Anton Lines, Assistant Professor of Finance presenting: "Text-Based Mutual Fund Peer Groups"
April 12, 2021: 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"
Links to prior years:
April 12, 2021
Vanessa Burbano, Assistant Professor of Management: 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
March 10, 2021
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
November 16, 2020
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
September 30, 2020
Laura Boudreau, Assistant Professor of Economics: Protecting Employee Privacy when Asking Sensitive Questions: COVID-19 Applications (Link to article)
Yiming Ma, Assistant Professor of Finance: Disruptions in the Debt Markets in the COVID-19 Crisis (Link to paper)
October 27, 2020
Andrey Simonov, Assistant Professor of Marketing: The Persuasive Effects of Fox News: Non-Compliance with Social Distancing in COVID-19 Pandemic (Link to paper)
April 27, 2020
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