Faculty Research Seminars
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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.\
Spring 2026
Please sort or search by seminar series (e.g., Accounting, Finance, Marketing, Operations Management, Organizational Behavior, Strategy and Environment).
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 | Building the Bench: Executive Rotation, CEO Succession, and Retention Trade-offs | McNair Hall 314 |
| 01/30/2026 10:30 am - 11:45 am | Finance | Evgeny Lyandres, Tel Aviv University | Strategies, Returns, and Skill in Decentralized Finance: Evidence from Automated Market Making | McNair Hall 317 |
| 02/13/2026 11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Operations Management | David Brown, Duke University | Unit Commitment Without Commitment: A Dynamic Programming Approach for Managing an Integrated Energy System Under Uncertainty | McNair Hall 212 |
| 02/20/2026 11:00 am - 12:30 pm | Organizational Behavior | Timothy Kundro, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Misconduct and Mishaps: How the Source of Wrongful Punishment Shapes Victims’ Restitution Seeking | McNair Hall 312 |
| 02/20/2026 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm | Strategy and Environment | Rahul Kapoor, University of Pennsylvania | Forecasting as a Problem of Cognitive Alignment: Evidence from Forecasting Tournaments in the Context of the Automotive Industry | McNair Hall 314 |
| 02/27/2026 10:30 am - 11:45 am | Finance | Lu Han, University of Wisconsin-Madison | TBD | McNair Hall 312 |
| 04/01/2026 12:15 pm - 1:45 pm | Dean's Distinguished Visiting Fellow (Strategy and Environment) | James B. Wade, George Washington University | TBD | McNair Hall 312 |
| 03/06/2026 10:30 am - 11:45 am | Finance | Manuel Adelino, Duke University | Interest Rate Pass-Through With Adjustable Rate Mortgages | McNair Hall 116 |
| 03/06/2026 10:30 am - 12:00 pm | Marketing | Fred Feinberg, University of Michigan | Harmonizing Discord: A Bayesian Model of Multi-Rater Agreement with Nonignorable Recusals | McNair Hall 125 |
| 03/06/2026 11:15 am - 12:45 pm | Organizational Behavior | Batia Wiesenfeld, New York University | Generative organizational learning: Affordances for new modes of knowledge search, creation, transfer, and forgetting with LLMs | McNair Hall 218 |
| 03/13/2026 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm | Organizational Behavior | Luke Hedden, University of Miami | Adrenaline and Sorrow: How Python Hunters Manage Values Conflicts | McNair Hall 212 |
| 03/20/2026 10:30 am - 11:45 am | Finance | Sheridan Titman, University of Texas at Austin | TBD | McNair Hall 314 |
| 03/27/2026 10:30 am - 11:45 am | Finance | Samuel Antill, Harvard University | TBD | TBD |
| 03/27/2026 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm | Strategy and Environment | Sekou Bermiss, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | TBD | TBD |
| 04/10/2026 10:30 am - 11:45 am | Finance | Matt Ringgenberg, University of Utah | TBD | TBD |
| 04/10/2026 10:30 am - 12:00 pm | Marketing | Nitin Mehta, University of Toronto | TBD | TBD |
| 04/10/2026 11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Operations Management | Bin Hu, University of Texas at Dallas | TBD | TBD |
| 04/17/2026 10:30 am - 11:45 am | Finance | Mark Egan, Harvard University | TBD | McNair Hall 314 |
| 04/17/2026 10:30 am - 12:00 pm | Marketing | Karen Page Winterich, Pennsylvania State University | TBD | McNair Hall 216 |
| 04/13/2026 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm | Dean's Distinguished Visiting Fellow (Organizational Behavior) | Katherine DeCelles, University of Toronto | TBD | McNair Hall 312 |
| 04/24/2026 10:30 am - 11:45 am | Finance | Carola Frydman, Northwestern University | TBD | McNair Hall 314 |
| 05/01/2026 10:30 am - 12:00 pm | Marketing | Robert Meyer, University of Pennsylvania | TBD | TBD |
| 05/01/2026 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm | Organizational Behavior | Justin Berg, University of Michigan | TBD | TBD |
| 05/06/2026 11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Operations Management | Mustafa Akan, Carnegie Mellon University | TBD | McNair Hall 212 |
Past Seminars
- 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 | The decline of U.S. workplace injuries, improvements in safety, and changes in occupational composition | McNair Hall 312 |
| 09/12/2025 10:00 am - 11:30 am | Accounting | Spencer Anderson, Indiana University | Understanding Risk Exposure and Management: The Impact of Management Intent Transparency on Retail Investors’ Assessment of Risk Management Strategies | McNair Hall 317 |
| 09/12/2025 10:30 am - 11:45 am | Finance | Anthony DeFusco, University of Wisconsin–Madison | Real Effects of Rollover Risk: Evidence from Hotels in Crisis | 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 | What Does Best Execution Look Like? | McNair Hall 214 |
| 10/03/2025 10:00 am - 11:30 am | Accounting | John Donovan, University of Notre Dame | The effects of school shootings on municipal bond pricing | McNair Hall 316 |
| 10/09/2025 10:30 am - 11:45 am | Finance | Manju Puri, Duke University | Breaking Barriers to Financial Access: Cross-Platform Digital Payments and Credit Markets | McNair Hall 312 |
| 10/10/2025 10:00 am - 11:30 am | Accounting | Evgeny Petrov, University of Zurich | Disruptive Innovation and Growth: The Role of Information | McNair Hall 214 |
| 10/17/2025 10:30 am - 11:45 am | Finance | Greg Buchak, Stanford University | Revolving Credit to SMEs: The Role of Business Credit Cards | McNair Hall 312 |
| 10/24/2025 10:00 am - 11:30 am | Accounting | Stephen Ryan, New York University | Damper on the Party: The Effect of Accounting Conservatism on Life Insurers’ Risk Acceptance Around the Financial Crisis | McNair Hall 216 |
| 10/31/2025 11:00 am - 12:15 pm | Operations Management | Kenan Arifoglu, University College London | The NHS Blended Payment Scheme: Incentive Issues and Optimal Reform | McNair Hall 216 |
| 11/07/2025 10:30 am - 11:45 am | Finance | Viktor Todorov, Northwestern University | Do Equity and Options Markets Agree about Volatility? | McNair Hall 216 |
| 11/13/2025 11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Operations Management | Yash Kanoria, Columbia University | What Is Your AI Agent Buying? Evaluation, Implications and Emerging Questions for Agentic E-Commerce | McNair Hall 212 |
| 11/14/2025 10:00 am - 11:30 am | Accounting | Oliver Binz, ESMT Berlin | The Fourth-Quarter Earnings Effect | McNair Hall 317 |
| 11/14/2025 10:30 am - 11:45 am | Finance | Jeffrey Coles, University of Utah | How Executive Compensation Changes In Response To Personal Income Tax Shocks (Who Pays The CEO’s Income Taxes?) | McNair Hall 318 |
| 11/14/2025 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm | Strategy and Environment | Wesley Koo, Johns Hopkins University | The Ripples of Political Controversy: Evidence from the EV Market in Norway | McNair Hall 317 |
| 11/21/2025 10:30 am - 11:45 am | Finance | Michaela Pagel, Washington University | Bank Fees and Household Financial Well-Being | McNair Hall 316 |
| 12/05/2025 10:30 am - 11:45 am | Finance | Neil Bhutta, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Pricing Power in the Mortgage Market: Evidence from GSE Fee Waivers | McNair Hall 318 |
| 12/12/2025 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm | Strategy and Environment | Matthew Lee, Harvard University | Organizational Civic Culture: Workplaces as Engines of Democratic Participation | McNair Hall 116 |
| - Spring 2025 |
| Date & Time | Seminar Series | Speaker | Topic | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 03/14/2025 10:30 am — 11:45 am | Finance | Simon Gervais, Duke University | Money Management and Real Investment | McNair Hall 216 |
| 02/21/2025 10:00 am — 11:30 am | Business 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 pm | Organizational Behavior | Michel Anteby, Boston University | Why What Resists is Often Revealing | McNair Hall 216 |
| 02/21/2025 12:30 pm — 2:00 pm | Strategy 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 pm | Strategy 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 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 | 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 am | Finance | 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 am | Finance | Pascal Noel, University of Chicago | Earnings Instability | McNair Hall 125 |
| 04/04/2025 11:00 am — 12:30 pm | Organizational Behavior | Michael Pratt, Boston College | Moving Beyond Identity Polarization Towards Depolarization & Reconciliation | McNair Hall 314 |
| 04/04/2025 12:30 pm — 2:00 pm | Strategy 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 am | Accounting | Rimmy Tomy, University of Chicago | Banking on Trust: Supervisory Transparency and Depositors’ Actions | McNair Hall 316 |
| 04/11/2025 10:00 am — 11:30 am | Business Analytics | Dacheng Xiu, University of Chicago | Expected Returns and Large Language Models | McNair Hall 316 |
| 04/11/2025 12:00 pm — 1:30 pm | Organizational 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 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 | 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 am | Accounting | Charles McClure, University of Chicago | The Real Effects of Public DEI Concerns | McNair Hall 312 |
| 05/05/2025 2:00 pm — 3:15 am | Operations Management | Vasiliki Kostami, HEC Paris | Advertising by Recruiting Influencers | McNair Hall 317 |
| - Fall 2024 |
| 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 |
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