Hosmer Interdisciplinary Research Luncheons

Hosmer Interdisciplinary Research Lunch Series

The Hosmer Interdisciplinary Research Lunches provide an invaluable venue for all Ross faculty members to convene, showcase their research, and foster new collaborations. This year, we are excited to introduce partnership lunches, offering faculty the opportunity to engage in meaningful conversations with colleagues from diverse disciplines.

Tuesdays at noon | Tauber Colloquium

September

Edward Kim

Assistant Professor of Finance

Empirical corporate and household finance, with a focus on banking, fintech, real estate, and intangible capital.

Uday Rajan // Faculty Doctoral Coordinator

David B. Hermelin Professor of Business Administration

Professor of Finance

Finance Faculty Doctoral Coordinator

The effect of informational frictions such as adverse selection and moral hazard in corporate finance settings and on financial markets. Recent work includes the role of banks and FinTech companies in payments.

Ravi Anupindi

Colonel William G. and Ann C. Svetlich Professor of Operations Research and Management

Professor of Technology & Operations

Faculty Director, Center for Value Chain Innovation

Technology and business innovation, global supply chain management, supply chain risk and resilience, (social and environmental) sustainability, supply chains and policy, health care delivery, and economic development.

October

Jean Twenge | October 1

Dean's Office Speaker

Anant Nyshadham

Associate Professor for Business Economics and Public Policy

Enterprise, firm, and worker characteristics and decision-making (e.g., labor contracting, worker training, managerial quality) and the resulting performance dynamics, particularly in developing countries.

Venkatram Ramaswamy

Professor of Marketing

Consumers as co-creators of value, customer-firm interactions, consumer heterogeneity and personalized experiences, market as a forum, experience innovation, experience networks, information infrastructure, consumer-to-consumer interactions, consumer communities, word-of-mouth, and discursive theory of the market.

November

Norm Bishara | November 5

Professor of Business Law and Ethics

Neroli Austin

Assistant Professor of Finance

Law and finance, with a specialization in real estate and private markets.

Nirupama Rao

Sanford R. Robertson Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Assistant Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy

The economic effects of fiscal and regulatory policy, focusing on the impact of taxes and regulations on firm production, investment and pricing decisions and individual consumption behavior.

December

Michael Jensen

Professor of Strategy

The socio-cognitive structures of markets including social networks and market identities and how they affect competition. Status, theorized initially as positions in social structure, but more recently also as an important aspect of market identities, and on developing a role-theoretic perspective on reputation.

Felipe Csaszar // Area Chair

Professor of Strategy

Area Chair of Strategy

How the speed, quality, and innovativeness of strategic decisions depend on firms’ internal, external, and distributed representations. This includes research on the effect of mental represen - tations, frameworks, artificial intelligence, and other organizational decision-making processes.

January

Greg Miller

Ernst & Young Professor of Accounting

Clyne Crawford Teaching Fellow

Faculty Director, Paton Accounting Center

How managers communicate their view of the firm and its activities to outsiders.

Samantha Keppler

Assistant Professor of Technology and Operations

EDUCATION OPPORTUNITIES

Keppler’s expertise is in the application of operations management theories to the education sector. Her research derives insights about how to improve education operations, or the management of human and material resources in public schools, educational nonprofits, and edtech companies. Her research has been published in top peer-reviewed journals in the operations management field and featured in top media outlets. A former high school educator in New York City, Keppler teaches technology and operations topics at Ross.

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February

Lindy Greer

Professor for Management and Organizations

Michael R. and Mary Kay Hallman Fellow

How to lead effective organizational teams, with specific interests in leadership skills in conflict management, diversity and inclusion, vision crafting, and the communication of emotions.

Stephen Leider

Professor of Technology and Operations

Dale L. Dykema Professor of Business Administration

Experimental, theoretical and empirical methods to answer questions in behavioral economics and behavioral operations management; including contracts and bargaining in supply chains, dynamic decision making in operational settings, and the use of technology to support productivity and decision-making.

Julia Lee Cunningham

Associate Professor of Management and Organizations

Psychology of narrative, implicit beliefs, lay theories, role and identity, behavioral ethics.

Heidi Packard

Coopers and Lybrand, Norman E. Auerbach Assistant Professor of Accounting

Executive compensation, corporate governance, and disclosure.

March

Siyu Yu

ASST PROFESSOR

Performance and social consequences of inequality and hierarchy; perceptual (in)accuracy of status hierarchy and its implications for performance, leader-follower relationships, proactive work behaviors, DEI initiatives, and team effectiveness; micro-social networks, diversity, team dynamics, conflict.

Kate Astashkina

Assistant Professor of Technology and Operations

Sustainable operations management, food waste, online platforms, water management.

Yue Maggie Zhou // Faculty Doctoral Coordinator

Associate Professor of Strategy

Strategy Faculty Doctoral Coordinator

The impact of interdependence on competitive, corporate, platform, and ecosystem strategies. The role of task complexity and institutional demands on organization design. Multinational corporations. Equality and productivity.

April

Gwen Yu // Faculty Doctoral Coordinator

Professor of Accounting

Michael and Joan Sakkinen Faculty Fellow

Accounting Faculty Doctoral Coordinator

Understanding the role of capital markets, international accounting, corporate disclosure, and real effects of reporting quality.

Marcus Collins

Clinical Assistant Professor of Marketing

CULTURE AND BRANDING

Collins is a leader in the studies of brand strategy and consumer behavior, creating culturally contagious ideas that inspire people to take action. His strategies and creative contributions have led to the launch and success of Budweiser’s “Made In America” music festival, the Brooklyn Nets (Hello Brooklyn!), and State Farm’s “Cliff Paul” campaign – among others. In addition to teaching executive education marketing, Collins serves as the Chief Strategy Officer at Wieden+Kennedy New York.

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Aradhna Krishna

Dwight F. Benton Professor of Marketing

MARKETING

Krishna is a behavioral scientist who is an expert on consumer perception and consumer persuasion. In studying perception and persuasion, she has focused on a variety of topics – sensory marketing, food, health and obesity, gender-related issues, environmental perceptions, corporate political activism, voting behavior, and cause marketing. She is considered the pioneer of sensory marketing, where she delves into the profound, yet often overlooked, non-conscious effects of sensory stimuli on consumer behavior and perception. Besides writing over 100 research article, Krishna has also written several bestseller business cases and op-eds. Her research has been covered by several media outlets, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Time magazine, and Newsweek. She is a sought-after speaker by firms and is also an expert witness for cases involving customer perceptions and customer confusion.

Harvard Business Review: How Unnecessary Paper Packaging Creates the Illusion of Sustainability

Brian Connolly

Assistant Professor of Business Law

HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

Connolly’s research primarily focuses on issues of public and private regulation of land use and their relationship to housing affordability and urban redevelopment. He has written on First Amendment related to local government regulation as well as fair housing matters in local planning and zoning. His work on these topics has included filing a U.S. Supreme Court amicus curiae brief and serving as an expert witness in cases involving these and other land use topics. Prior to joining Michigan Ross, Professor Connolly spent over a decade in private law practice in Denver, Colorado, where he represented public- and private-sector clients in zoning, planning, development entitlements, and other complex regulatory matters.

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