Events

Winter 2026

Marketing Speaker Series

• Nick Reinholtz, University of Colorado Boulder, "Expectations, Star Ratings, and Consumer Choice", January 30
• Nathan Martin, Arizona State University, "Internships and Inequalities in the Transition from College to Career", February 9
• Davide Orazi, Monash University, "The Effect of Linguistic Extraordinariness on Experiential Consumption", February 27
• Demi Oba, Harvard University, "The Dark Side of Consumer Engagement: Are Brands Better Off When Consumers Ignore Requests for Engagement?", March 13
• Liad Weiss, University of Warwick, "Reoptive Identity: The Dynamic Psychology of Being By Doing", March 20
• Dante Donati, Columbia University, "Social Media Comments", April 17
• Dan Schley, Erasmus University Rotterdam, "Comparing Apples to Oranges: Violations of Measurement Invariance in Experimental Studies", May 14

Business Economics Speaker Series

• Kenichi Shimizu, University of Alberta - Department of Economics, "Scalable Estimation of Multinomial Response Models with Random Consideration Sets", February 11
• Lala Ma, University of Kentucky, "Racial Dynamics of Federal Property Buyouts in Flood-Prone Areas", March 6
• Nouri Najjar, Western University, "Sample Bias in Decompositions of Economic Dynamics", March 13
• Tasso Adamopoulous, York University, "Trade Risk and Food Security", March 27
• Sanghoon Lee, University of British Columbia, "Cities as Inverted Watersheds", April 17
• Georg Schaur, The University of Tennessee, "R&D Employment Spillovers in Trade and MNE Networks: Evidence from a R&D Tax Reform", April 24

Fall 2025

 Business Economics Speaker Series

• Vladimir Smirnyagin, University of Virginia, "Labor-Based Asset Pricing", October 24

Winter 2025

Marketing Speaker Series

• Minah Jung, New York University, "Rethinking Preferences: Market Price Perception and the Nature of Irrationality", March 28
• Melanie Brucks, Columbia Business School, "Minor Audiovisual Glitches Undermine Virtual Communication", April 4
• Esther Uduehi, University of Washington-Seattle, "Intersectionality and Race in Marketing: Frameworks for Understanding Consumers", April 11

Spring 2025

Business Economics Speaker Series

• Zhiqi Chen, Carleton University, "Collusion on Surcharges under Uncertainty", April 11
• Brian McCaig, Wilfrid Laurier University, "Foreign and Domestic Firms: Long Run Employment Effects of Export Opportunities", April 25

Marketing Speaker Series

• Aziza Jones, Wisconsin School of Business, "Why System Confidence Links Goal-Congruent Product Valuation and Subjective SES", May 16

Fall 2023

Marketing Speaker Series

• Stefano Puntoni, Wharton School, “Offshoring, Automation, and the Legitimacy of Efficiency: A Social Contract Account of Consumer Reactions to Collective Layoffs”, September 22
• Adrian Ward, University of Texas at Austin “People mistake the internet’s knowledge for their own”, October 6
• Peter Popkowski, University of Queensland, “Compound Conjoint Analysis: A Charity Case”, October 13

• Ana Martinovici (Erasmus), October 20

Winter 2024

Business Economics Speaker Series

• Kristian Behrens, University of Quebec in Montreal, “Prime Locations”, April 5

Fall 2020

Marketing Speaker Series

• Gerald Haubl, Alberta School of Business, "Exploration Traps: How the Opportunity to Switch Among Experiences Affects Consumption Enjoyment," November 13
• Zak Tormala, Stanford, "Perceiving Attitude Change: The Qualitative Change Hypothesis," November 6
• Jeff Galak, Carnegie Mellon (Tepper School of Business), "Identifying the Temporal Profiles of Hedonic Decline," October 16

Winter 2021

Marketing Speaker Series

• Simona Botti, London Business School, "Control and Information: What is the Value of Knowing an Undesirable, Unavoidable Future?" January 15
• Minah Jung, NYU, "Predicting Consumers' Valuation and Willingness-to-Pay," April 9

Spring 2021

Marketing Speaker Series

• Ellie Kyung, Dartmouth, "Mental Mapping of Magnitude," April 23
• Ravi Dhar, Yale, "Why the Future Matters for the Present: Expecting a Future Positive Experience Reduces Adaptation to a Negative Experience," April 9

Marketing Speaker Series

• Xin (Shane) Wang, Ivey-University of Western Ontario "Image Portfolio and Demand in the Sharing Economy," November 1
• Shelly Rathee, University of Utah, "Presence and Consequence of Marketplace Sexism in Customer Reviews," October 15
• Dongjin He, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, "Hiding in the Crowd: Secrecy Compels Consumer Conformity," October 4
• Zoe Lu, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "That Money Feels Like Mine: How a Consumer-Funded Frame Increases Incentive Effectiveness," September 27
• Mansur Khamitov, Nanyang Technological University, "Names are the Mirrors of the Soul: The Role of Anthropomorphized Possessive Brand Names in Brand Preferences," September 20
• Chuck Howard, UBC "A Prototype Theory of Consumer Expense Misprediction," September 13

Winter 2019

Marketing Speaker Series

• Oleg Urminsky, University of Chicago, February 8
• Charis Li, University of Florida, "How Object History Value Shapes Owner Decisions in the Sharing Economy," January 9

Fall 2018

Marketing Speaker Series

• Shirley Zhang, University of Chicago, "A Dragging-Down Effect: Consumer Decisions in Response to Unit-Price Increases," December 18
• Nikki Sullivan, Duke University, "Indulgent foods can paradoxically promote disciplined dietary choices," December 17
• Evan Weingarten, University of California, San Diego, "Do We Look Ahead or Behind Us in the Rankings," December 14
• Noah Castelo, Columbia University, "Consumer Adoption of Algorithms that Blur the Line Between Human and Machine," December 13
• Sarah Moore, University of Alberta, Department of Marketing, Business Economics and Law, "Emotional Echo Chambers: Observed Emoji Clarify and Intensify Individuals' Emotions and Responses to Social Media Posts"
  AND "Play it Again, Sam! Measuring and Understanding Volitional Reconsumption," November 23
• Suzanne Bliven Shu, U of California, Anderson School of Management, "Risk, Ownership, and Loss In Decumulation During Retirement," October 26
• Katherine (Katie) Lafreniere, PhD Candidate, University of Alberta, School of Business, "The Power of Potty Mouth: The Meaning and Impact of Swearwords in Word-of-Mouth," September 20

Marketing Seminar Series

• Joonji Shim, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia, "Embracing the Experiential: Reminders of Mortality Increase, Consumer Preferences for Experiences over Material Goods", Sep 1, 2017
• Mathew Isaac, Seattle University, Albers School of Business and Economics, "The Round-Number Advantage in Consumer Debt Payoff", Oct 20, 2017
• Alix Barasch, Stern School of Business, New York University, "Signaling and Cooperation", Jan 19, 2018
• Ying Zhang, Peking University, "Rewards and Behavioral Changes", Feb 9, 2018
• Rom Schrift, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, "The Illusion of Multitasking and Its Positive Effect on Performance", Mar 16, 2018
• Moran Cerf, Kellogg School, Northwestern University, Apr 13, 2018
• Norbert Schwarz (U of Southern California), Anat Keinan (Harvard University), Jeff Galak (Carnegie Mellon University), Carl Mela (Duke University), Marketing Research Camp, May 31 - Jun 1, 2018