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Accounting Area Research Seminars 

Hosted by College of Business, the Accounting Area Seminar Series is organized for faculty and doctoral students with an interest in accounting. The topics have covered research carried out by the accounting faculty at the College of Business.  

Spring 2023 Seminar Schedule  (all talks will take place in Harrman 304 from 1 to 2:30 pm unless otherwise noted)

  • March 31: Yiwei Dou, New York University (talk to take place from 12:20 to 1:50 pm)
  • April 13: Lucy Chen, Villanova University
  • April 21: Henry Huang, Yeshiva University
  • May 12: Edward Li, Baruch College

Past seminars have included:

  • Dan Eshleman, Rutgers University, Camden : Audit Quality and Industry Specialists   
  • Sudipta Basu, Temple  University: Asymmetric Loan Loss Provisioning
  • Yuan Xie, Fordham University:  Evidence on the benefit of voluntary disclosure when stock prices are subject to mutual fund flow-driven trading pressure.
Center for Finance Seminar Series

The Center for Finance at Stony Brook University organizes a research seminar series for faculty and doctoral students interested in the intersection of finance, business, economics, computer science, and applied mathematics. The Center for Finance will also invite renowned scientists from other universities or professionals to present their own research.

Past seminars have included:

  • Stoyan Stoyanov, Stony Brook University:  Measuring linear model risk under temporal aggregation
  • Aaron Kim, Stony Brook University:  A semimartingale approximation to fractional Levy processes for option pricing
  • Zari Rachev, Stony Brook University:  Option Pricing with Informed Investors
  • Kyoung Jin Choi, University of Calgary: Endogenous Credit Constraints and Household Portfolio Choices
  • Raphael Douady, Stony Brook University: Polymodels  in Finance
CIBEH Center Seminars

The activities of the CIBEH Center provide a direction for enhancing the impact of humanities, in addition to enhancing the mission of the   College of Business. A response to the major emphasis on STEMM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Medicine), and in order to balance its disciplines, this program builds from the humanistic disciplines present in the   College of Arts and Sciences   .

Should you have any questions, please email  Jadranka.Skorin-Kapov@stonybrook.edu.

Past seminars have included:

  • John Cimino:  Leadership and the Inner Work of Art
  • Dr. Michael R. Spicher:  Aesthetics Matters: A Look at the World Beyond Art
  • Mark Gibney,  Belk Distinguished Professor at The  University of North Carolina Asheville  and an  Affiliated Professor at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute in Lund, Sweden:  Seeing Human Rights through Film
  • Jadranka Skorin-Kapov, Stony Brook University: On Integration of Business, Philosophy, and Art: Business Ethics through Film
  • Alexander Nehamas,  Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature and the Carpenter Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University :  Metaphors in Our Lives: “I Love You for Yourself’’
  • John Hoker, T. Jerome Holleran Professor of Business Ethics and Social Responsibility and Professor of Operations Research, Carnegie Mellon University :  Taking Ethics Seriously: Why Ethics Is an Essential Tool for the Modern Workplace
  • Pierre Guillet de Monthoux ,  Copenhagen Business School, Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy: Art, Philosophy, and Business: turns to speculative realism in European management scholarship
  • Eliza Jane Reilly , Ph.D.  Executive Director      National Center for Science and Civic Engagement  (  www.ncsce.net ) and Research Professor, Department of Technology and Society, Stony Brook University: Using Complex Civic Challenges to Enhance Student Learning in Business, the Arts, and Humanities
  • Christian White, Artist  (   http://www.christianwhitestudio.com/?page_id=2 ): Why on Earth Should I Study Art in Business School?
  • Professor Matt Statler, NYU Stern School of Business:   Humanities and Arts in Management Education
Finance Area Research (FAR) Seminar Series, Sponsored by Mark J. Snyder Financial Services

Hosted by Mark J. Snyder Financial Services and the College of Business, the FAR seminar series is organized for faculty and doctoral students with an interest in finance. The topics cover research carried out by the finance faculty at College of Business in diverse areas such as asset pricing, behavioral finance, banking and regulations, financial econometrics, and portfolio theory.

Spring 2023 Seminar Schedule  (all talks will take place in Harrman 304 from 2 to 3 pm )

  • March 31: Tongseok Lim, Assistant Professor of Management, Quantitative Methods, Purdue University: Hodge Allocation for Cooperative Rewards: A Generalization of Shapley's Cooperative  Value Allocation  Theory Via Hodge Theory on Graphs

Past seminars have included:

  • Prof. Stefan Mittnik, PhD, Chair of Financial Econometrics, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich:  Challenges in Financial Modeling: Relevance versus Elegance
  • Steven Kou, Boston University: A Theory of FinTech
  • Leo  Pugachev, Rochester Institute of Technology
  • Kiseop Lee, Purdue  University: Systemic Risk in Market Microstructure of Crude Oil and Gasoline Futures Prices: A Hawkes Flocking Model Approach
  • Matthew Wynter,  University of Illinois at Chicago: Frugality and Firms' Financial Flexibility: Evidence from Natural Disasters
  • Stanislav Uryasev, Stony Brook University: Testing Model Adequacy with Applications in Asset Pricing
  • Liuren Wu,  Baruch College: Option Pricing
  • Sandeep Dahiya, Georgetown University: Corporate Finance and Banking
  • Aaron Kim, Stony Brook University:  The First Hitting Time of Levy Process and its Application to Barrier Option Pricing
  • Keli (Andrew) Xiao, Stony Brook University:  Weather Effect on The Stock Market Volatility
  • Danling  Jiang, Stony Brook University:  Mood Beta and Seasonalities in Stock Returns
  • Stoyan Stoyanov, Stony Brook University:  Semi-parametric Models for Risk Assessment
  • Gokhan Torna, Stony Brook University:  Market-Risk Based Capital Requirements, Trading Activity,  and Bank Risk
  • Stoyan Stoyanov, Stony Brook University:  Model risk in linear factor models under temporal aggregation
  • Aaron Kim, Stony Brook University:  On a fractional Levy process for option pricing
  • Stoyan Stoyanov, Stony Brook University:  Defensive portfolio construction using EVT-based VaR
  • Aaron Kim, Stony Brook University:  Structural breaks and market crashes in finance
  • Gokhan Torna, Stony Brook University:  Anticipating loss from Proxy Contests
  • Keli (Andrew) Xiao, Stony Brook University:  Sentiment analysis and market efficiency
  • Sergio Focardi, Stony Brook University:  Modern Money Theory and endogenous money supply
  • Dmytro Holod, Stony Brook University:  Internal Capital Markets in Banking
Marketing Area Seminar Series

Hosted by College of Business, the Marketing Area Seminar Series is organized for faculty and doctoral students with an interest in marketing. The topics cover research carried out by the marketing faculty at the College of Business in areas such as consumer behavior.  

Spring 2023 Seminar Schedule  (all talks will take place in Harrman 304 from 10:00 to 11:30 am)

Past seminars have included:

  • Vladas  Griskevicius, University of Minnesota: The Constructive, Destructive and Reconstructive Power of Social Norms
  • Beth Vallen, Villanova University: Consumer behavior with a focus on health-related decision making.
Operations and Decision Analytics Seminar Series

Hosted by the College of Business, the Operations and Analytics Seminar Series is an interactive campus seminar series for faculty and doctoral students from across the university with an interest in all aspects of business operations, including operations management, operations research, and data analytics.

Our speakers will be a mix of academic researchers and industry practitioners. Meetings, unless otherwise noted on the schedule below, will run from 11:00 to 12:30 pm on Fridays in Harriman Hall Room 304. 

To find out more about the series, or to schedule a seminar, or to receive notifications regarding upcoming seminars, please email  Mohammad.Delasay@stonybrook.edu.

Fall 2024 Seminar Schedule

  • October 28, 12:30 -1:30 pm: Professor Lea Skorin-Kapov, Department of Telecommunications, University of Zagreb, Croatia: Understanding and Managing End-User Quality of Experience in the Era of Networked Multimedia Services

Spring 2023 Seminar Schedule

  • March 24: Christine Pitocco, Stony Brook University College of Business (1:00-2:15pm)
  • April 7: Tolga Aydinlyim, Baruch College
  • April 14: Jing Dong, Columbia University
  • April 21: Jim Shi, NJIT
  • April 28: Saed Alizamir, Yale University

Past seminars have included:

  • Dr. Dantong Yu, Martin Tuchman School of Management, New Jersey Institute of Technology:   Complex Network Models for Asset pricing and Financial Decision Making: FinTech Via a Network Len
  • Mehdi Davoodi, Rutgers University:  Quality and Brand effects on Introduction of Store Brand Products
  • Behrooz Pourghannad, Wilfrid Laurier University:  Matching Patients with Surgeons: Heterogeneous Effects of Surgical Volume on Surgery Duration
  • Jiaru Bai, Wake Forest University:  Optimal Subsidy Schemes and Budget Allocations for Government-Subsidized Trade-in Programs
  • Dr. Nagesh Gavirneni, SC Johnson College of Business, Cornell University: Service Delivery Strategies for Alleviating Pandemic Suffering while Maintaining Profitability
  • Dr. Chungseung Lee, SUNY Korea: Improving the Performance Guarantee of Bid-Price Control for Network Revenue Management
  • Jiayuan Zhang, Ph.D. Candidate, The University of Rhode Island College of Business: Blatant Benevolence and Social Capital Attainment on Social Network Sites (SNSs): A Multi-method Approach
  • Dr. Aditya Jain, Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College: Sharing Demand Information with Retailer Under Upstream Competition
  • Pengzhan Guo, Ph.D. Candidate, Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Stony Brook University: Optimizing Yourself: Intelligent Career Planning via Stochastic Modeling and Reinforcement Learning
  • Dr. Sina Ansari, DePaul University: Communicating Delays to Improve the Patient Satisfaction at Emergency Departments
  • Prof. Armann Ingolfsson, University of Alberta: Assessment of exponential smoothing methods for spatio-temporal forecasting of EMS call volumes
  • Kwon Gi Mun, Silberman College of Business, Fairleigh Dickinson University: Designing Hydro Supply Chains for Energy, Food, and Flood
  • Zhifeng Yang, Stony Brook University College of Business: Proximity, Internal Governance, and Workplace Safety
  • Jingyuan Yang, George Mason University School of Business: One Size Does Not Fit All: Personal Match and Marketing Message Effectiveness on Social Networks
  • Steve Skiena, Stony Brook University Teaching Professor in Computer Science & Director of Stony Brook Institute for AI-Driven Discovery and Innovation
  • Chris Sellers, Stony Brook University Professor of History & Director of Center for the Study of Inequalities, Social Justice, and Policy
  • Dan Goldstein, Principal Researcher & Assistant Managing Director, Microsoft Research
  • Andrew Schwartz, Stony Brook University, Assistant Professor in Computer Science & Director of Human Language Analysis Beings
  • Jiyin Cao, Stony Brook University College of Business, Assistant Professor of Management
  • Jamie Macdonald, Postdoctoral Associate of SPICE Lab
  • Jadranka Skorin-Kapov, Stony Brook  University: On Integration of Business, Philosophy, and Art: Business Ethics through Film
  • Katsunobu Sasanuma, Stony Brook  University: Marginal Analysis of Perishable Inventory Systems  using Constant Base Stock Approximation
  • Richard Chan, Stony Brook University: Observational Learning Effects and Boundary Conditions
  • Thomas Sexton, Stony Brook University: Using DEA to Eliminate Unnecessary Greenhouse Gas Emissions (and Save The Planet?)
  • Alexander Nehamas,  Princeton University:  Provost Lecture Series: Metaphors in Our Lives: ‘I Love You for Yourself'
  • Dan Goldstein,  Microsoft Research:  T o Put that in Perspective: Generating Analogies that Make Numbers More Easily Understood by Laypeople
  • John Aielli, Rutgers University:  Surveillance  Practices in Organizations: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
  • Melissa Cardon, Pace University: Team Entrepreneurial Passion (TEP): A conceptual model and early empirical evidence
  • Stephen Zaccaro, George Mason University: Leadership Dynamics in Multiteam Systems:  Implications for Facilitating Innovation
  • Adam Galinsky, Columbia University: DISCriminability: A Theoretical Model for Understanding the Conceptual Distinctions between Statistically Correlated and Conceptually Connected Variable
  • Don Siegel, University at Albany: Assessing the Impact of Organizational Justice on Academic Entrepreneurship
  • Keli Xiao, Stony Brook University:  Exploiting Expert Opinions for Price Shocks Prediction
  • Christopher Courtney, University at Buffalo: Resolving Information Asymmetry: Signaling and Crowdfunding Success
  • Dr. Eliza Reilly, Executive Director,  National Center for Science and Civic Engagement:  Using Complex Civic Challenges to Enhance Student Learning in Business, the Arts, and Humanities
  • Adar Eisenbruch,  University of California, Santa Barbara:  Biological Markets and the Ecological Rationality of Human Economic Decision-Making
  • Matt Statler, New York University: Humanities and Arts in Management Education
  • Nathan Pettit, New York University: Dynamic Status Hierarchy: Dysfunctional Consequences and Lay Theories
  • Gavin Kilduff, New York University :  The Psychology of Rivalry
  • Michael Kraus, Yale University:  Sign of Social Class
  • Michael Vitevitch, University of Kansas: Characteristics of Words Influence More Than Just Language Processing
  • Colin Fisher, Boston University:  How Helping Happens: Rhythms of Help in Creative Team Projects
  • Shige Oishi, University of Virginia:  A Socio-Ecological Approach to Culture and Psychology
  • Ko  Kuwabara, Columbia University:  Implicit Theories of Networking: Effects of Lay Beliefs on Attitudes and Engagement toward Instrumental Networking
  • Sam Hunter:  Pennsylvania State University:   Innovation isn’t Easy: Why Leadership (and a Few Other Things) Matter
Organizational Behavior Seminar Series

Hosted by the College of Business, the Organizational Behavior Seminar Series is an interactive campus seminar series for faculty and doctoral students from across the university with an interest in different aspects of management, including organizational behavior, and human resources.

Our speakers are a mix of academic researchers and industry practitioners. To find out more about the series, or to schedule a seminar, or to receive notifications regarding upcoming seminars, please email Gary.Sherman@stonybrook.edu.

Spring 2023 Seminar Schedule  (all talks will take place in Harrman 304 from 11 am to 12:15 pm)

  • January 27: Jens Mazei, TU-Dortmund, Department of Psychology: How processes that concern women and processes that concern men go hand in hand to produce gender differences in negotiation.
  • February 10: Rebekah Burroway, SBU Department of Sociology: She believed she could, but is that enough?
  • March 3: Matthew Wynter, SBU College of Business: Do female directors reduce corporate misconduct?
  • March 24: Jennifer Dannals, Yale University, School of Management
  • May 5: Eliot Smith, Georgetown University, McDonough School of Management

Past seminars have included:

  • Siyu Yu, New York University: Knowing Where Others Stand - Accuracy and Performance Effects of Individuals’ Perceived Status Hierarchies
Strategy & Entrepreneurship Originators Seminar Series

Hosted by the College of Business, the Strategy & Entrepreneurship Originators (SEO) is an interdisciplinary seminar series for SBU-affiliated faculty, students, and professionals who are interested in the latest findings and applications of Strategy and Entrepreneurship research. Our speakers would consist of leading scholars and practitioners. Meetings would usually start from 11:00 to 12:30 pm on Fridays in Harriman Hall Room 304 and may be streamed on Zoom unless otherwise noted. To nominate a speaker or receive notifications regarding upcoming seminars, please email Richard.Chan@stonybrook.edu.

Spring 2023 Seminar Schedule:

  • March 31: Andrew Gelman, Department of Statistics and Department of Political Science, Columbia University: What are the most important statistical ideas of the past 50 years?  And how do they relate to the study of business? On Zoom.