Business Distinguished Scholar Seminar Series
Event Highlights
| Date | Seminar | Speaker |
September 14, 2026 | Appropriateness in Healthcare: Impact of Variation in Cardiology, Emergency Medicine and Beyond | Prof. Mahesh Nagarajan Senior Associate Dean (Research) and Professor of Operations and Logistics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia |
| Date | Seminar | Speaker |
July 10, 2026 | Priority Access for Ecosystem Seeding | Prof. S. Alex. Yang Full Professor and Area Chair of Management Science and Operations at London Business School |
June 26, 2026 | LIDS: LLM Summary Inference Under the Layered Lens | Prof. Lv Jinchi Professor of Data Sciences and Operations Marshall School of Business University of Southern California |
June 15, 2026 | Innovator's Edge in Supply Chain Transparency and Food Waste Reduction | Prof. Jeannette Song Professor of Business Administration and Professor of Operations Management at the Fuqua School of Business of Duke University |
June 15, 2026 | LLM-Powered Predictive Inference with Online Text Time Series | Prof. Lv Jinchi Professor of Data Sciences and Operations Marshall School of Business University of Southern California |
| April 22, 2026 | Life in the Academia: 47 Years of Fun and Games (and Hard Work) | Prof. Mahmut Parlar Professor of DeGroote School of Business McMaster University Canada |
| Date | Seminar | Speaker |
June 24, 2025 | High-Dimensional Knockoffs Inference for Time Series Data | Prof. Lv Jinchi Professor of Data Sciences and Operations Marshall School of Business University of Southern California |
June 17, 2025 | HNCI: High-Dimensional Network Causal Inference | Prof. Lv Jinchi Professor of Data Sciences and Operations Marshall School of Business University of Southern California |
| May 12, 2025 | AI (ChatGPT) Democratization and Trading Inequality | Prof. Xiumin Martin Professor of Accounting Olin Business School, Washington University in Saint Louis |
| Date | Seminar | Speaker |
| Jun 28, 2024 | Approximation Algorithms for Assignment Problems in Healthcare Operations (cancelled) | Prof. Mahesh Nagarajan Senior Associate Dean (Research) and Professor of Operations and Logistics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia |
| Jun 18, 2024 | Firm-Level Labor-Shortage Exposure | Prof. Jarrad Harford Professor and Chair of the Department of Finance and Business Economics Foster School of Business University of Washington |
| Jun 12, 2024 | To Refurbish or Not: Implications for Firm’s Decisions, Consumers, and Environment | Prof. Greys Sosic Senior Vice Dean for Faculty and Academic Affair Professor of Data Sciences and Operations Marshall School of Business The University of Southern California |
| Jun 3, 2024 | Nudges on Environmental Engagement: Evidence from Crowdfunding | Prof. Xiumin Martin Professor of Accounting Olin Business School, Washington University in Saint Louis |
| May 16, 2024 | Open Source Products: The Moralization of Innovation | Prof. Darren Dahl Dean of the Sauder School of Business University of British Columbia |
| Apr 29, 2024 | Framing Decision Problem and Modeling Creative Activity as Search and Optimal Stopping | Prof. Ilia Tsetlin Professor, INSEAD |
| Date | Seminar | Speaker |
| Dec 7, 2023 | My Journey as a Professor: a Memoir | Prof. Mike Crant Notre Dame Professor of Management & Organization University of Notre Dame |
| Jun 20, 2023 | Dynamic Assignment Problem: Hardness Results, Approximability and Algorithms with Applications (Cancelled) | Prof. Mahesh Nagarajan Senior Associate Dean (Research) and Professor of Operations and Logistics Division Sauder School of Business University of British Columbia |
| Jun 16, 2023 | Manufacturer’s Intervention into Secondary Market: Implications for Firm’s Pricing, Refurbishing Quality, Profit and Consumer | Prof. Greys Sosic E. Morgan Stanley Chair in Business Administration Chair and Professor of the Department of Data Sciences and Operations Marshall School of Business The University of Southern California |
| Jun 2, 2023 | Investor Base Disclosure and Entrepreneurial Success: Evidence from Crowdfunding | Prof. Xiumin Martin Professor of Accounting Olin Business School, Washington University in Saint Louis |
| Jun 1, 2023 | Why Horizontal Organizations Don’t Fall Flat: Organizational Structure Shapes Perceptions of Company Warmth | Prof. Darren Dahl Dean of the Sauder School of Business University of British Columbia |
| May 23, 2023 | The Innovation Arms Race | Prof. Jarrad Harford Professor and Chair Department of Finance and Business Economics Foster School of Business University of Washington |
| Date | Seminar | Speaker |
| Jun 20, 2021 | Governance Convergence and Accounting Harmonization | Prof. Inder K. Khurana Professor, the Geraldine Trulaske Chair of Accountancy, University of Missouri |
| Jun 3, 2021 | Disentangling the Effects of Experience-Based Faultlines in E-sports Teams: An Empirical Analysis Using Auto-Regressive Integrated Moving Average Modelling | Prof. Chee-Wee Tan Professor, Department of Digitalization, Copenhagen Business School |
| May 20, 2021 | Rethinking Salt Supply Chains: Cost and Emissions Analysis for Co-production of Salt and Freshwater from U.S. Seawater | Prof. Greys Sosic Chair and Professor, University of Southern California |
| May 18, 2021 | Practical Initiative: Why Proactive Personality and Behavior Matters at Work | Prof. Mike Crant Mary Jo and Richard M. Kovacevich Professor of Excellence in Leadership Instruction, Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame |
| May 12, 2021 | Better Safe than Sorry: Effects of Brand Hatred on Preferences for Competing Brands | Prof. Darren Dahl Senior Associate Dean – Special Projects (Covid Response), Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia |
| May 6, 2021 | Decisions With Several Objectives Under Uncertainty: Sufficient Bounds for Multivariate Almost Stochastic Dominance | Prof. Ilia Tsetlin Professor of Decision Sciences, INSEAD |
