2015-2016

2016

23 June 2016
Revenue-Maximizing Pricing and Service Policies for Queueing Systems with Strategic Customers
Prof. Philipp Afèche, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto

23 June 2016
Reevaluating Readmission Reduction Policies: The Role of Telehealth and Latent Patient Health Status
Prof. Indranil Bardhan, Naveen Jindal School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas

10 June 2016
A Dynamic Clustering Approach to Data-Driven Assortment Personalization
Prof. Fernando Bernstein, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University

3 June 2016
Examining Project Backing Decisions in Crowdfunding: Project Backers Experience and Information Complexity
Prof. Boh Wai Fong, Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University

30 April 2016
Developing Hong Kong as a Smart City
Mr. Eric Yeung, Founder & Managing Director, FlexWorkflow Limited

22 April 2016
Pooling Queues with Work-Averse Servers
Prof Guillaume Roels, Anderson School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles

31 March 2016
Optimal Timing of Sequential Distribution: The Impact of Congestion Externalities and Day-and-Date Strategies
Prof Hyoduk Shin, Rady School of Management, University of California, San Diego

19 March 2016
OutThink the Cognitive Era with IBM Watson
Mr. Jerry Sham, Watson Solutions Architect, IBM Watson Group

18 March 2016
Trade vs. Bank Credit and Supplier Competition
Prof Jiri Chod, Carroll School of Management, Boston College

17 March 2016
Racial Discrimination in the Sharing Economy: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Prof. Michael Luca, Harvard Business School

14 March 2016
Integrating Dynamic Pricing with Inventory Decisions under Lost Sales
Prof. J. George Shanthikumar, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University

4 March 2016
Master of Financial Insurance - A New Professional Masters Program at the University of Toronto
Prof. Sam Broverman, University of Toronto

4 March 2016
Target Oriented Decision Making and Its Role in Supply Chain Performance
Dr. Lucy Gongtao Chen, Department of Decision Sciences, Business School, National University of Singapore

3 March 2106
Combating Infant Mortality in Rural India: Evidence from a Field Study of eHealth Kiosk Implementations
Professor Viswanath Venkatesh, Distinguished Professor and Billingsley Chair, Walton College of Business, University of Arkansas

26 February 2016
Probabilistic Symmetries in Random Structures
Professor Harry Crane, Rutgers University

19 February 2016
Models and Inference for Sparse Graphs using Exchangeable Random Measures
Professor Daniel M. Roy, University of Toronto

1 February 2016
Discerning Non-Stationary Microstructure Noise and Time-Varying Liquidity at Ultra High Frequency
Mr. Richard Yongrui Chen, University of Chicago

28 January 2016
Word-of-Mouth in Social Media Advertising: "Likes" on Facebook Ads
Mr Shun-Yang Lee, McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin

26 January 2016
Social is the New Financial: How Startups' Social Media Activities Influence Funding Outcomes
Ms Fujie Jin, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

19 January 2016
Creating Social Contagion through Firm-Mediated Message Design: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
Mr Tianshu Sun, Robert H Smith School of Business, University of Maryland

15 January 2016
Some Specially Structured Assemble-to-Order Systems
Professor Paul Zipkin, Professor Emeritus of Business Administration, Duke University

14 January 2016
Popularity or Proximity: Characterizing the Nature of Social Influence in an Online Music Community
Mr Yi-Jen (Ian) Ho, Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine

13 January 2016
Trade-in Remanufacturing, Strategic Customer Behavior, and Government Subsidies
Mr Renyu (Philip) Zhang, Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis

2015

29 December 2015
Performance Guarantees of the Long Chain Design in Resource Allocation
Ms Xuan Wang, Stern School of Business, New York University

22 December 2015
Intermediation in Online Advertising
Professor Ozan Candogan, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago

18 December 2015
Buyer Intermediation in Supplier Finance
Mr Weiming Zhu, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland

14 December 2015
Strategic Interactions on an E-commerce Platform: Pricing, Demand Learning, and the Threat of Entry
Professor Fangruo Chen, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University

14 December 2015
Stein's Method and Preferential Attachment Random Graphs
Dr. Nathan Ross, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne

11 December 2015
Learning (or Not) from Precursors to Disasters
Mr. Heikki Peura, London Business School

9 December 2015
Patient Prioritization in Emergency Department Triage Systems: An Empirical Study of Canadian Triage and Acuity Scale (CTAS)
Dr. Eric Park, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia

8 December 2015
Collaboration and Multitasking in Networks: Humans versus Machines
Professor Jan Van Mieghem, Harold L. Stuart Distinguished Professor of Managerial Economics, Professor of Operations Management, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

27 November 2015
Drug Distribution through Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) in Pharmaceutical Supply Chain: Formulary Design and Drug Pricing
Dr. Yixuan Xiao, Department of Management Sciences, City University of Hong Kong

23 November 2015
Bayesian Nonparametric Models for Time Evolving Feature Allocations and Sparse Dynamic Networks
Dr. Konstantina Palla, Oxford University

21 November 2015
A Story of Building a Local Cyber Security Firm to a Global Company
Mr. Ronald Pong, CEO, Nexusguard Consulting Ltd.

10 November 2015
Subsampling Large Graphs and Invariance in Networks
Professor Peter Orbanz, Department of Statistics, Columbia University

9 November 2015
Consumption, Addiction, and Self-Control: The Economics of Mobile Applications
Professor Wonseok Oh, KAIST C.B. Chair Professor of Information Systems, College of Business, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

6 November 2015
Optimal Policies for a Dual-Sourcing Inventory Problem with Stochastic Leadtimes
Dr. Li Xiao, Department of Decision Sciences & Managerial Economics, Chinese University of Hong Kong

29 October 2015
Wearables and Gamification: A Preliminary Study on the Influence of Leaderboards in Fitness Apps
Dr. Atreyi Kankanhalli, Department of Information Systems, National University of Singapore

23 October 2015
Higher Prices for Larger Quantities? Non-Monotonic Price-Quantity Relations in B2B Markets
Dr. Wei Zhang, Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Hong Kong

3 October 2015
Introduction to FinTech and Algo-Trading
Dr. David Dapeng Li, CIO, Haier Financial Group

19 September 2015
Unleash Big Data Insights Across the Enterprise
Mr. Derek Lee, Managing Director, Teradata (HK) Ltd.

16 July 2015
Consumer co-creation of digital culture products: business threat or new opportunity?
Professor Karl R. Lang, Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, City University of New York

14 July 2015
Consumer Choice Models with Endogenous Network Effects
Professor Ruxian Wang, Carey Business School, Johns Hopkins University