Schulich Seminar Series 2020-24

The CPA – Schulich Accounting Seminar Series

Seminar Date Time and Place Presenter Presentation Information

2024

Wednesday, March 27 3:00 pm, Room G308, Rob and Cheryl McEwen Graduate Study and Research Building Dana Wallace, Associate Professor, Kenneth G. Dixon School of Accounting, College of Business Administration, University of Central Florida Social Media Analyst Coverage of Socially Responsible Firms: Evidence from Seeking Alpha
Friday, January 12 12:00 pm, Virtual Wendy Tietz, Professor of Accounting at Kent State University Microsoft Visualizations: Unleash the Power of Charts, Conditional Formatting, and More for Impactful Data Presentations
Friday, February 2 12:00 pm, Virtual Gregory D. Saxton, Professor of Accounting in the Schulich School of Business at York University

Intro to Textual Analysis Using Python

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Friday, February 23 12:00 pm, Virtual Dr. Adam Booker, Associate Professor in the School of Accountancy at the Daniels College of Business at the University of Denver

Hiring Trends and Technology

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Friday, March 15 12:00 pm, Virtual Jerome Niyirora, Associate Professor in the College of Health Sciences at SUNY Polytechnic Institute (SUNY Poly)

ChatGPT Python API: A Deep Dive Into Large Language Models

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Friday, April 19 12:00 pm, Virtual Dr. Andrea Kelton, Associate Professor of Accounting in the Jennings A. Jones College of Business at Middle Tennessee State University

Innovations to Fraud Detection

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Friday, May 17 12:00 pm, Virtual Gregory D. Saxton, Professor of Accounting in the Schulich School of Business at York University

Intro to Social Network Analysis

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2023

Friday, January 20 12:00 pm, Virtual Gregory D. Saxton, Professor of Accounting, Schulich School of Business, York University Online Social & Relationship Capital
Friday, February 10 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm, Virtual Peter Kipp, Ph.D., CPA, Assistant Professor of Accounting, G. Brint Ryan College of Business, University of North Texas Blockchain Fundamentals for Accounting
Friday, March 24 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm, Virtual Dr. Veljko Fotak, Associate Professor of Finance, University at Buffalo Valuation in the Metaverse: Digital Assets in Virtual Worlds

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Friday, April 14 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm, Virtual Jerome Niyirora, PhD, Associate Professor, College of Health Sciences, SUNY Polytechnic Institute (SUNY Poly) Best Practices of Data Visualization: A Demonstration in Python

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Tuesday, April 28 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm, Virtual Will Fitzgibbon, Senior Reporter, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) Peeking Behind the Veil: How Journalists Use Leaked Financial Records to Tell Stories with a Global Impact and What You can Do with the Information

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Friday, May 12 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm, Virtual Gregory D. Saxton, PhD, CGMA, Professor of Accounting, Schulich School of Business, York University Understanding and Measuring Reputational Capital Using Python

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2022

Friday, March 11 12:00 pm, Virtual Theophanis C. Stratopoulos, PwC Chair Associate Professor at the School of Accounting and Finance (SAF) – University of Waterloo Using Data Analytics Within the Organization: A ‘Low-Hanging Fruit’ Approach
Friday, March 25 12:00 pm, Virtual Gregory D. Saxton, Associate Professor of Accounting at Schulich School of Business, York University Using Data Analytics and Social Media to ‘Measure’ Off-the-Books Intangible Assets
Friday, November 25 12:00 pm, Virtual Kiridaran (Giri) Kanagaretnam, Professor of Accounting, Ron Binns Chair in Financial Reporting, Banking, and Governance, Schulich School of Business, York University; Xiaoran (Jason) Jia, PhD Candidate, SSB, York University, Lecturer, Lazaridis School of Business and Economics, Wilfred Laurier University Peer-to-peer FinTech Lending, Non-traditional Information, and Racial Discrimination

Registration link: https://centre-in-digital-financial-information.webinargeek.com/peer-to-peer-fintech-lending

Friday, December 2 12:00 pm, Virtual Wendy Tietz, PhD, CPA, CMA, CGMA, CSCA, Professor of Accounting, Kent State University; Tracie L. Miller (Nobles), PhD, CPA, Program Chair for the B.S. Accounting program, Franklin University How to Interpret and Use the Statistics in Excel’s Data Analysis Toolpak

Registration link: https://centre-in-digital-financial-information.webinargeek.com/statistics-in-excel-data-analysis-toolpak

Friday, December 9 12:00 pm, Virtual Tahmina Ahmed, PhD Candidate in the Accounting area, Schulich School of Business, York University; Gregory D. Saxton, Associate Professor of Accounting, Schulich School of Business, York University The Effects of Bots on Market Reactions to Earnings Announcement Events

Registration link: https://centre-in-digital-financial-information.webinargeek.com/the-effects-of-bots-on-market-reactions-to-earnings-announcement-events

Friday, December 16 12:00 pm, Virtual Dr. Colleen M. Boland, Associate Professor of Accounting at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee The Audit Expectation Gap and Technology

2021

Friday, January 15 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm, Virtual Dawn Matsumoto, Gerhard G. Mueller Endowed Professor in Accounting, Foster School of Business, University of Washington Do Analysts Cater to Investor Beliefs? Evidence from Dual-Listed Chinese Firms
Friday, January 29 10:30 am – 12:00 pm, Virtual Paolo Quattrone, Professor of Accounting, Governance & Society, Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester Inquiries into the Mystery of Value: Accounting for the ‘Common Good’ at the Istituto per la Ricostruzione Industriale (IRI)
Friday, February 12 10:30 am – 12:00 pm, Virtual Simon Dermarkar, Department of Accounting Studies, HEC Montréal Rethinking “Audit Quality” in Turbulent Times: Silo Governance and Subjugation of Audit to the “External” Environment
Friday, February 26 10:30 am – 12:00 pm, Virtual Ken Li, DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University Evolution in Value Relevance of Accounting Information
Tuesday, March 9 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm, Virtual David Cooper,  Emeritus Professor, Department of Accounting and Business Analytics, University of Alberta Making Regulations Work: A Study on the Operationalization of Disclosure Regulation
Friday, March 26 10:30 am – 12:00 pm, Virtual Erica Pimentel, PhD Candidate, Concordia University Freedom through Choice: Employee Empowerment in the Neoliberal Workplace
Friday, April 30 10:30 am – 12:00 pm, Virtual Hendrik Vollmer, Associate Professor of Accounting, Warwick Business School Accounting and the Shifting Spheres
Friday, November 19 10:30 am – 12:00 pm, Virtual Wu Yang, University of Texas at Austin Short Squeezes After Short-Selling Attacks
Friday, December 3 10:30 am – 12:00 pm, Virtual

Martin Messner, Professor, University of Innsbruck

Temporal Structuring as Self-discipline: Managing Time in the Budgeting Process

2020

Friday, October 30 10:30 am – 12:00 pm, Virtual Kun Huo, Ivey Business School, Western University The Effect of Sanction Target on Managers’ Compliance with Regulations
 Friday, November 20 10:00 am – 11:30 am, Virtual Daniel Martinez, HEC Paris Accounting and the Territorialization of Cannabis Markets

Finance

Seminar Date Time and Place Presenter Presentation Information

2022

Friday, April 8 1:30pm-2:30pm, SSB N105 & Virtual Karl Lins, Professor, University of Utah Sexism, Culture, and Firm Value: Evidence from Harvey Weinstein Scandal and the #MeToo Movement

2021

Friday, January 22 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, Virtual Ron Kaniel, Professor, University of Rochester Intermediated Asymmetric Information, Compensation, and Career Prospects
Friday, January 29 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, Virtual Felipe Restrepo, Associate Professor, Ivey Business School at Western Ontario The “7% Solution” and IPO (Under)Pricing
Friday, February 5 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, Virtual Madhu Kalimipalli, Professor, Wilfred Laurier University Debt Contracts, Covenant Design, and Mergers and Acquisitions: Evidence from Bond Repurchases
Friday, March 12 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, Virtual Joan Farre-Mensa, Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago Financing Payouts
Friday, March 26 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, Virtual Sermin Gungor, Research Advisor, Bank of Canada Intermediary Leverage Shocks and Funding Conditions
Friday, April 9 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, Virtual Si Li, Professor, Wilfred Laurier University Say on Pay Voting and Mergers and Acquisitions
Friday, April 16 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, Virtual Mark Huson, Professor, University of Alberta Issuing equity in the face of bad news

2020

Friday, October 2 10:00 am – 11:30 am, Virtual Dong Lou, Associate Professor, London School of Economics The Effect of Advisors’ Incentives on Clients’ Investments
Friday, October 9 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, Virtual Pablo Slutzky, Assistant Professor, University of Maryland Drug Money and Bank Lending: The Unintended Consequences of Anti-Money Laundering Policies
Friday, November 6 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, Virtual Camille Hebert, Assistant Professor, University of Toronto Learning from Errors in Entrepreneurship
Friday, November 13 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, Virtual Justin Birru, Associate Professor, Ohio State of University Sub-optimal trading decisions and investment biases
Friday, November 20 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, Virtual Diane Del Guercio, Professor, University of Oregon How have passive portfolio managers fared in the era of the dramatic rise of passive investing?
Friday, November 27 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, Virtual Yan Wang, Assistant Professor, University of McMaster Labor-Capital Substitution and Capital Structure: Evidence from Automation

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Marketing

Seminar Date Time and Place Presenter Presentation Information

2023

Thursday, March 2 2:15pm, In-person Room #MB G208

 

Cele Otnes, Professor of Marketing Emerita and Research Professor, Gies College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Effective Presentation of Qual Research *for PhD Students
Friday, March 3 1:00pm, In-person Room #MB G208 Cele Otnes, Professor of Marketing Emerita and Research Professor, Gies College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign How Practitioners Foster Customer Tranquility: Leveraging Paradox Theory to Plumb Challenges and Strategies
Friday, May 19 1:00pm, Hybrid; In-person Room #MB G102 & Virtual Dr. Katheleen Vohs, Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Land O’Lakes Chair in Marketing Do Voting and Election Outcomes Predict Changes in Conspiracy Beliefs? Evidence from Two High-Profile U.S. Elections 

2022

Friday, January 21 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, Virtual Aimee Huff, Oregon State University “Call 911, or Get My Gun?” How American Consumers Respond to Responsibilization for Armed Self-Protection
Friday, February 18 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, Virtual Sonya Grier, American University Expanding Research on Race for Marketplace Equity
Friday, March 4 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, Virtual Tonya Bradford, University of California Irvine Recycling Body Parts: Coping with Death Through Possession Disposition
Friday, March 25 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, Virtual Mark Forehand, University of Washington Decomposing the Association Basis of Identity Effects in Marketing: A Unified Theory Approach
Friday, April 8 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, Virtual Cait Lamberton, University of Pennsylvania Designing for Dignity: Antecedents, Consequences, and Cross-Sector Insights
Friday, April 29 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, Virtual Melissa Akaka, University of Denver Sensemaking in Complex Consumption Journeys
Friday, September 30 9:00 am, Virtual Daiane Scaraboto, Associate Professor of Marketing, The University of Melbourne
Reauthorizing the Consumption of Cultural Difference: Consumers’ Reflexive Pathways between Appreciation and Appropriation
Friday, October 28 Virtual Vicki Morwitz, Bruce Greenwald Professor of Business and Professor of Marketing, Columbia University The Fees Paradox: The Pain of Choice
Friday, November 18 1:00 pm, Virtual David Crockett, Professor of Marketing, University of Illinois Chicago Challenging Ethnic and Racial Inequality in the Marketplace

2021

Friday, January 19 Virtual Emma Levine, University of Chicago The Moral Judgment of Honesty
Friday, February 12 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, Virtual Jen Argo, University of Alberta Prada Bags and Ice-cream Flavors: How Conspicuous Consumption Experiences Shape Consumer Creativity
Friday, February 26 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, Virtual Meredith Thomas, Florida State University Imprinting and Cultural Entrepreneurship in Marketer Exits
Friday, March 12 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, Virtual Zeynep Arsel, Concordia University Content Markets and Institutional Work
Friday, March 19 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, Virtual Lawrence Williams, University of Colorado Boulder The Nature of Meaningful Consumption
Friday, March 26 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, Virtual David Mick, University of Virginia “ER”: The Essence and Dis-Ease of Marketing (a Buddhist Perspective)
Friday, April 9 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, Virtual Kristen Duke, University of Toronto Structuring Decisions to Encourage (or Discourage) Action: The Quantity Integration Effect
Friday, May 7 10:00 am – 11:30 am, Virtual Martin Schreier, WU Vienna Paying Twice to Have it Your Way? The Backfiring Effect of Mass Customization on a Product’s Resale Value
Friday, May 14 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, Virtual Alison Wood Brooks, Harvard University How to TALK Gooder: The Science (and serendipity) of Conversation
Friday, May 21 9:00 am – 10:30 am, Virtual Stefano Puntoni, Erasmus University The Psychology of Human Replacement
Friday, September 24 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, Virtual Stephanie Tully, Stanford University Psychological Ownership of Money
Friday, October 8 special time 10:00 am -11:30 am, Virtual Giana Eckhardt, King’s College London Finding Security in Precarity via Liquid Consumption: An Ethnography of Digital Nomadism
Friday, October 22 1:00 pm -2:30 pm, Virtual George Newman, Yale University Resistance to COVID-19 Vaccines: A Case Study of the Binding Functions of Morality
Friday, November 5 1:00 pm -2:30 pm, Virtual Mark Forehand, University of Washington Currently postponed
Friday, November 12 1:00 pm -2:30 pm, Virtual Melanie Wallendorf, University of Arizona Co-creating Servicescape Authenticity: A Longitudinal Study of Community Interaction in a Mixed Use Retail Development
Friday, November 19 1:00 pm -2:30 pm, Virtual Hal Hershfield, UCLA Back to the Present: How Direction of Mental Time Travel Affects Thoughts and Behavior
Friday, December 3 1:00 pm -2:30 pm, Virtual Amber Epp, University of Wisconsin-Madison When Fields are Destabilized: Mobilizing Gendered Capital to Establish Legitimacy

Operations Management and Information Systems (OMIS)

Seminar Date Time and Place Presenter Presentation Information

2022

Friday, November 18 10:30 am – 12:00 pm, S124, SSB Professor Ming Hu, Distinguished Professor of Business Operations and Analytics, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto Model-Free Assortment Pricing with Transaction Data

Paper link: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3759397

 

2021

Friday, October 1 Virtual Jun Li, University of Michigan Crowdfunding the Front Lines: An Empirical Study of Teacher-Driven School Improvement

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Organization Studies

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2021

Friday, January 22 3:00 pm, Virtual Dr. Dan Samosh, University of Toronto Who’s Disclosing? Examining the Influence of Social Status in the Relationship between Disability Disclosure Strategies and Work Outcomes
Friday, February 26 3:00 pm, Virtual Dr. Stephanie Creary, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania Providing Standardized or Targeted Support? How Managers Navigate Dual Prescriptions for Supporting Women and Racial Minorities at Work
Thursday, March 4 3:00 pm, Virtual Dr. Leonora Risse, RMIT in Melbourne Making a Difference to Society through our Research, Impact and Engagement
Friday, March 19 3:00 pm, Virtual Dr. Tiffany Johnson, Scheller College of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology “Where Do We Go From Here?”: Stigma, Work, and the Future
Friday, April 23 3:00 pm, Virtual Dr. Danielle King, Rice University Resilience: Cognitive Predictors and Behavioral Outcomes
Friday, May 7 1:00 pm, Virtual Dr. Alyson Byrne, Memorial University Getting away Scott- but not Susan-free: The effects of safety-specific abusive supervision and supervisor gender on follower attributions and safety outcomes

2020

Friday, September 18 3:00 pm, Virtual Dr. Winny Shen, Schulich School of Business, York University Discrimination Against East Asian Employees at Work
Friday, October 23 3:00 pm, Virtual Dr. Sabrina Volpone, Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado-Boulder Moving from Successful Aging to Successful Living: Lessons from Long Term Survivors of HIV
Friday, November 27 3:00 pm, Virtual Christianne Varty, Schulich School of Business, York University When Competence is Not Enough: How Warmth Stereotypes from Non-Organizational Members Undermine Asian Employees

Real Estate and Infrastructure

Seminar Date Time and Place Presenter Presentation Information

2021

Friday, February 12 10:40 am – 12:10 pm, Virtual Stanimira (Stani) Milcheva, Associate Professor of Real Estate & Infrastructure Finance, University College London Does Investor Size Matter? Evidence from Commercial Real Estate Transactions

Strategy Management/Policy

Seminar Date Time and Place Presenter Presentation Information

2020

Wednesday, November 18 11:30 am – 1:00 pm, Virtual Daniel B. Sands, Ph.D. Candidate, Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University Why Receiving a Michelin Star may not be a Good Thing: The Role of Third Parties in Value Creation and Capture
Thursday, November 19 11:30 am – 1:00 pm, Virtual Xirong (Subrina) Shen, Ph.D. Candidate, SC Johnson College of Business at Cornell University Winning Long and Far: The Impact of Publications on the Generative Value of Inventions for Artificial Intelligence Firms
Tuesday, November 24 11:30 am – 1:00 pm, Virtual Chunhu Jeon, Ph.D. Candidate, W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University How Inequality Breeds Entrepreneurship and Reproduces Inequality in Entrepreneurial Teams
Thursday, November 26 11:30 am – 1:00 pm, Virtual Majid Majzoubi, Ph.D. Candidate, Foster School of Business at the University of Washington Paying a Price for Change: The Effects of Change in Identity Claims on Firm Legitimacy

Sustainability/COERB

Seminar Date Time and Place Presenter Presentation Information

2024

Wednesday, October 16 11:00 am – 12:00 pm, Room G308, Rob and Cheryl McEwen Graduate Study and Research Building Anna Kim, Associate Professor in Management for Sustainability and Peter Brojde Faculty Scholar in Entrepreneurship, Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University Tea Trails: Scale of Sustainable Development
Monday, June 24 2:00-3:00 pm, Room G308, Rob and Cheryl McEwen Graduate Study and Research Building Frank Schiemann,  Professor of Business Administration, University of Bamberg Materiality as a Double-Edged Sword: Real effects of SASB Sustainability Topics
Wednesday, March 27 3:00 pm, Room G308, Rob and Cheryl McEwen Graduate Study and Research Building Dana Wallace, Associate Professor, Kenneth G. Dixon School of Accounting, College of Business Administration, University of Central Florida

Social Media Analyst Coverage of Socially Responsible Firms: Evidence from Seeking Alpha

Wednesday, January 24

3:00 pm – 4:00 pm, Room G308, McEwen  Building, Schulich School of Business

 

Paul Arkoh, PhD candidate in Management (Accounting Track) at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy

Determinants of Sustainability Practices of Financial Institutions in Ghana

2023

Thursday, November 9 9:30 am – 11:00 am, Room G308, McEwen Building, Schulich School of Business Nina Granqvist, Professor of Management and Senior Editor, Organization Studies, Aalto University of Business, Finland Chasing Tornadoes:  How Groups Engage with Temporally Uncertain Work
Thursday, October 5 3:30 pm -5:00 pm, Room X206, Executive Learning Centre. Schulich School of Business R. Edward Freeman, University Professor and Olsson Professor of Business Administration , Darden School of Business, University of Virginia –  followed by a panel discussion featuring: Yuval Deutsch , Sareh Pouryousefi and David Weitzner. Moderated by Robert Phillips Pragmatism and Responsible Business
Tuesday, September 26 10:00 am -11:00 am, Room G308, Rob and Cheryl McEwen Graduate Study and Research Building Blerita Korca, Postdoctoral Researcher in Sustainability Accounting & Reporting, Otto-Friedrich University of Bamberg Understanding the Interplay between Materiality and Comparability: Evidence from the Bank Industry
Wednesday, March 15 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm, Room G308, Rob and Cheryl McEwen Graduate Study and Research Building Akylai Anarbaeva, Visiting Doctoral Student from University of Trento The Social Impact Measurement of Technology Developer in Healthcare: An Interplay Between Technology-Driven & Organisational Impacts

2022

Monday, September 26 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm, Room G308, Rob and Cheryl McEwen Graduate Study and Research Building Glen Whelan, Professor, Université du Québec à Montréal Digitization, Entrepreneurs, and Excellence in Action Sports
Tuesday, November 29 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm , Room G308, Rob and Cheryl McEwen Graduate Study and Research Building Christian Kroll, M.Sc., M.Sc., M.Sc., Mag. Theol, Universitat Mannheim, Sustainable Business Shared Ethical Leadership

 

Research Officer: Dr. Farhana Islam