CULVERHOUSE SPEAKER SERIES

The Culverhouse College of Business maintains two speaker series devoted to encouraging interdisciplinary efforts to deal with complex research problems.

Fall Friday Afternoon R&R Series

  • What better way to enjoy a Friday afternoon before a home football game than to catch up on some much-needed R&R! Yes, Research & Refreshments!
  • Research on a common theme from differing perspectives across multiple disciplines -structured like a conference session with 3 to 4 Culverhouse Faculty presenters.
  • Refreshments from some of Tuscaloosa’s finest deserts
  • Schedule
    • Friday, September 13th 2:00 – 3:30 in Hewson Hall 2027
      • Topic:  Navigating Success: The Role of Teamwork, Crowdsourced Order Coordination and Positioning Strategies in Determining Competitive Advantage
      • Presenters:
        • BC Kim – Economics
        • Iman Dayarian – Operations Management
        • Abhi Bhattacharya – Marketing
    • Friday, September 20th 2:00 – 3:30 in Hewson Hall 2027
      • Topic: 3M – Modeling, Music and Multi-Layer Prospects
      • Presenters:
        • Tigran Melkonyan – Economics
        • Volodymyr Melnykov – Statistics
        • Xuwen Zhu – Statistics
    • Friday, October 11th 2:00 – 3:30 in Hewson Hall 2027
      • Topic: Gender and Equity
      • Presenters:
        • Sandra Mortal – Finance
        • Irem Sengul Orgut – Operations Management
        • Vishal Gupta – Management
    • Friday, October 25th 1:30 – 3:30 in Hewson Hall 2027
      • Topic: Teaching and Research: Data Analysis, Cybersecurity and AI
      • Presenters:
        • Hasan Isomitdinov – Economics
        • Peter Harms – Management
        • Carlos Bauer – Marketing
        • Pratyush Sharma – Management Information Systems

Inter-Campus Collaboration Series

The college will host talks by two high-profile colleagues from other universities each semester. Speakers invited to the Culverhouse College of Business should have broad appeal and be able (in addition to giving an outstanding public talk) to provide our faculty with ideas/motivation/inspiration with regard to cross-disciplinary research (or would perhaps consider engaging in such research with members of our faculty).

We can bring in two speakers per semester who are not coming to campus for job interviews.

Fall 2024
  • September 27, 2024 – 3:15-4:45 Hewson Hall 1017AB
    • Dr. David Matsa, Alan E. Peterson Distinguished Professor of Finance
    • Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
    • “Dual Credit Markets: Income Risk, Household Debt and Consumption”
  • November 15, 2024 –  Hewson Hall 1017AB
    • Dr. Pinar Keskinocak  Associate Chair for Faculty Development and William W. George Chair Professor
    • H. Milton Steward School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Tech
 
Spring 2025
  • February 21, 2025
  • Dr. Maria Minniti – Bantle Chair in Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, Chair, Department of Entrepreneurship and Emerging Enterprises
  • Whitman School of Management, Syracuse University