The College of Business Research Colloquium
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The research colloquium provides our in-house faculty members a platform to present their up-to-date research ideas and projects, an opportunity to seek comments and suggestions from colleagues, and a way of identifying potential cross-disciplinary collaboration opportunities. The research work can be at all stages, and faculty members at all ranks are welcome to present.
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Wednesdays
12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m.
The colloquium is held in person in BS 336. Each speaker will give a 45 minute presentation, followed by 15 minutes of Q&A.
This event is open to all faculty, staff, and graduate students in the College of Business.
Presentation Schedule
Spring 2025
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Past Events
2024
January 10: Sadek Showkat (Entrepreneurship) | Extreme Entrepreneurship and Well-Being: Evidence From Refugee Camps
January 24: Ben Foster (Accounting) | Was COVID-19 Crisis Financial Morbidity to Corporate Values Lessened by LGBTQ Corporate Equality Index Ratings?
February 7: Per Fredriksson (Economics) | Religion and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Late Qing China
February 14: Thomas Lambert (Equine and Economics) | Mergers and Consolidation in the US Gambling and Horse Racing Industries: What It Means for Local Economic Development and Taxation
February 21: Sergey Anokhin (Entrepreneurship) | Local and Distant Commercial Entry and Social Entrepreneurship Dynamics
March 6: Rapid-fire Session with Ph.D. students
April 10: Ghiyoung Im (Information Systems, Analytics & Operations) | Taming Complexity in the Cybersecurity of Multihospital Systems: The Role of Enterprise-wide Data Analytics Platforms
April 17: Richard Germain (Marketing) | An Artificial Intelligence-Aided Interpretive Analysis of 20,000+ Printers’ Ink Articles: 1888-1924
August 28: Aaron Barnes (Marketing) | When Promoting Minority Ownership Increases Brand Evaluations
September 25: Special Edition with Forcht Center for Entrepreneurship: Oleks Osiyevskyy (University of Calgary) | The More the Merrier? Scientists in Founding Teams and Outlier Venture Financing
October 9: Ben Foster (Accounting) | Is Going Woke a Yoke on Shareholder Value Growth?
October 23: Thomas Lambert (Equine and Economics) | Louisville’s Economic Opportunity Zones: A Reboot of the Old Louisville Enterprise Zone Program?
November 6: Isabel Botero & Tom Fediuk (Management & Entrepreneurship) | Crisis and Crisis Management in Family Firms
2023
January 18: Sadek Showkat (Entrepreneurship) | Living in a Box: The Bright and Dark Side of Resourcefulness in Refugee Camps
January 25: Manju Ahuja (ISAO) | Reviewing/Editorial Service Workshop
February 1: Jozef Zurada (ISAO) & Pawel Weichbroth, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland | The Measurement and Evaluation Model for Mobile Applications Usability – Weichbroth, A Data Stream Approach to Predicting Risk: An Incremental Learning Model – Zurada
February 15: Dereck Barr-Pulliam (Accountancy) | The Joint Effects of Work Content and Work Context on Valuation Specialists’ Perceptions of Organizational-Professional Conflict
February 22: Patrick McLaughlin, George Mason University | Special Edition with the Center for Free Enterprise – Economics of Regulation
March 8: Sandeep Goyal & Saurav Chakraborty (ISAO)
March 22: Rapid-fire Session with 3rd year Ph.D. students
April 12: Carl Maertz (Management & Entrepreneurship)
April 19: Rapid-fire Session with 1st year Ph.D. students
August 30: Per Fredriksson | Legal Traditions and the Ratification of the Paris Agreement
September 13: Michael Araki | Polymathy as a Driver of Innovation: Implications for Management and Behavioral Sciences
September 27: Beth Munnich | Medicare Reimbursement Policy, Air Ambulance Access, and Patient Outcomes
October 18: Richard Hunt (Virginia Tech) | Special Edition with the Center for Free Enterprise | Playing to Win Versus Playing to Not Lose
November 1: Denis Cumberland, Brian Holahan, and Kathy Gosser | Franchising Curriculum: Delivering Value in Colleges of Business
November 8: David Audretsch (Indiana) | Special Edition with the Center for Free Enterprise | Making a Miracle: Fauda and Entrepreneurial Resilience
November 15: Isabel Botero | Achieving Family Enterprise Continuity through Next Generation Preparation: What can we learn from Long Lasting Family Firms?
November 29: Daniel Bennett
2022
January 26: Sandeep Goyal (ISAO) | Impact of an Enterprise System Implementation on Job Outcomes: Challenging the Linearity Assumption
February 9: Rapid-fire Session
- Rui Sundrup (ISAO) | Mitigation of Work-Family Frustration in Dual-Earner Couples during COVID-19: The Role of ICT Permeability, Planning, and Gender Effect
- Jozef Zurada (ISAO) |Predicting home sale prices: A review of existing methods and illustration of data stream methods for improved performance
February 22: Gary Wagner (Acadiana Business Economist and Endowed Chair at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette) | Does state tax reciprocity affect interstate commuting? Evidence from a natural experiment. (Presented in collaboration with the Center for Free Enterprise)
March 2: Saurav Chakraborty (ISAO) |Mitigating malicious behavior on social media
March 9: Sven Olov-Daunfeldt (Professor of Economics, Dalarna University)| Acqui-hires, acqui-fires and organo-hires: Human capital formation in scaling new ventures. (Presented in collaboration with the Center for Free Enterprise)
March 23: Xi Ai (Accounting) | Target setting and global value chain: Evidence from private firms internationally
April 13: Carl Maertz (Management and Entrepreneurship) |A Theoretical Typology of Work-family Conflict Episodes
September 7: Ben Foster (Accountancy)
The Impact of CEO Compensation Packages on Corporate Cultural Inclusiveness (with Xudong Fu and Andrew Manikas)
September 21: Ryan Quinn (Management and Entrepreneurship)
Learning to Leverage Difference in an MBA Program (with Zachary Goldman & Meghan Pifer)
October 5: Isabel Botero and Sonia Strano (Management and Entrepreneurship)
When Does the Family Brand Matter? The Case of Acquisitions
October 12: Luis Alfonso Dau – Northeastern University
(Presented in collaboration with the Center for Free Enterprise)
October 19: Saurav Chakraborty (ISAO)
Freedom of Speech or Freedom of Reach? Strategies for Mitigating Malicious Content in Online Social Networks
November 2: Chris Stivers (Finance)
Short-term Relative-Strength Strategies, Turnover, and the Connection between Winner Returns and the 52-week High
November 16: Brittany Green (ISAO)
A Longitudinal Examination of AI Fairness on Online Labor Markets
December 5: Christopher Boudreaux – Florida Atlantic University
(Presented in collaboration with the Center for Free Enterprise)
2021
January 20: Chris Stivers (Finance) | Inflation Innovations, Stock Returns, and the Changing Nature of Inflation Non-Neutrality
February 3: Ghiyoung Im (CIS) | Understanding Contagious Behaviors in Online Support Communities: A Virtual Social Contagion Framework
February 17: Aaron Barnes (Marketing) | When Sharing is Not Caring: Unintended Consequences of Access Offers on Consumer Brand Reactions
March 10: Weihua Zhao (Economics) | Taxing Uber
March 24: Rui Zhang (CIS) | The Unintended Consequences of Social Presence for Minorities in Virtual Groups
April 7: Katina Kulow (Marketing) | Giving Because I Want To, Not Because I Have To: The Effect of Social Context on Donations
April 21: Conor Lennon (Economics) | Did the Affordable Care Act Improve Health, Access to Care, and Insurance Coverage Rates Among Workers?
September 15: Mike Barone (Marketing) | COVID-19 and Consumers
September 22: Russell Williamson (Accounting) | The Real Effects of Mandatory Performance Measurement on Risk Assessment, Capital Investment, and Emissions Performance
October 6: Rapid-fire Session
- Andrew Manikas (ISAO) | Latent Dirichlet Allocation Method
- Christine Xin (Accounting) | A Few More Good Men: Social Performance and Whistleblowing
- Per Fredriksson (Economics) | Culture, Collective Action, and Rebellions in China
October 20: Ben Foster (Accounting) | Which Diversity Metrics Best Capture Investors’ Perceptions of Diversity Efforts?
November 3: Daniel Bennett (Management & Entrepreneurship) | Populist Discourse and Entrepreneurial Action: The Role of Political Ideology and Institutions
November 17: Mahesh Gupta (ISAO) | Integrating Theory of Constraints, Lean and Six Sigma: A Framework Development and its Application
December 1: Ghiyoung Im (ISAO) | How to Tame Data Security Challenges of Complicatedness and Complexity in Multihospital Systems
2020
September 30: Manju Ahuja (CIS) | Trading Well-being for Productivity: A Resource Drain Theory Approach to Examine Drivers and Outcomes of Excessive Mobile Use
October 21: Dereck Barr-Pulliam (Accounting) | The Auditor-Valuation Specialist Coopetitive Alliance in the Fair Value Audit of Complex Financial Instruments
October 28: Andrew Manikas (Management) | Is That an Opportunity? Global Versus Local Processing of Technological and Socio-economic Constraints
November 11: Sara Angelina Memmi (Marketing) | How Variety Influences Expectations of Future Goal Conflict
December 2: Dereck Barr-Pulliam (Accounting) | Data Analytics and Skeptical Actions: The Countervailing Effects of False Positives and Consistent Rewards for Skepticism