SEMINAR SERIES

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

Fall 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 and PhD Student presenters.
  • Refreshments from some of Tuscaloosa’s finest desserts.

Fall 2025

  • Oct. 3, 2025 
    • Session Title: Technology-Driven Consumer Preferences and Perceptions and Managerial Discretion
    • Presenters
      • Yuanyuan Chen (MIS) Evaluating Consumer Preferences and the Value of Artificial Intelligence-Powered Features in Vehicles
      • Carol Jones (MKT) How traceability information affects consumer perceptions and purchasing intentions
      • Sherry Zhou (FI) Managerial Discretion in Reserve Manipulation: How Property-Casualty Insurers Respond to Financial Pressures
  • Oct. 17, 2025
    • Session Title: Diversity and Discretion
    • Presenters
      • Bryan Hochstein (MKT) Diversity Sells: Investigating how DEI Manifests in Sales and its Impact of Firm, Team, and Individual Performance
      • Traviss Cassidy (EC) Ethnic Favoritism and Fiscal Discretion
      • Jing Li (PhD ST) On transformation discriminant analysis
  • Nov. 7, 2025
    • Session Title: Policy trade-offs, Outliers and Uniqueness
    • Presenters
      • Alecia Cassidy (EC) Policy trade-offs from complementary resource consumption: PV adoption and residential water use
      • Yana Melnykov (ST) Outlier Detection in Cluster Analysis
      • Athina Skiadopoulou (PhD MGT) To be unique or not to be: Antecedents and consequences of strategic uniqueness
  • Nov. 14, 2025
    • Session Title: Litigation, Trust and Perception
    • Presenters
      • Paul Pecorino (EC) An Experimental Analysis of the Signaling Model of Litigation
      • Sebastian Forkmann/Justin DeSimone (MKT/MGT)
        Differential dark side effects of trust in business relationships: A meta-analysis
      • Amy Matthews (PhD AC) Do audit associates perceive their assigned work as advanced and meaningful

Spring 2026

  • Jan. 16, 2026
    • Session Title: Sharing and Competing
    • Presenters
      • Paan Jindapon (EC) Informal Risk-Sharing Experiment
      • Alex Hanson (PhD MKT) Competitive and Product Adoption
      • Pouria Arsalani (PhD OM) Tactical Decision Support for EMS Dispatch, Relocation, and Diversion: Balancing Fairness and Telemedicine Integration
  • Feb. 6, 2026
    • Session Title: Technology in the Classroom
    • Presenters
      • Abhi Bhattacharya (MKT) Integrate advanced analytics into the Marketing Strategy (MKT 487) course
      • Daniel Balena (ST) Integrating Technology to Scaffold Successful Classroom Habits (ST260)
      • PhD student (EC) TBD
  • Feb. 13, 2026
    • Session Title: Helping Students to Help Themselves
    • Presenters
      • Virginia Rolling (MKT) Developing a New ePortfolio Course: Helping Culverhouse Students Create their Personal Brand
      • Steve Buchheit (AC) Early Education Choices for Auditors: Giving Undecided Future CPAs Practical Context
      • PhD Student (MIS) TBD

 

All sessions are from 1:30-3:00 p.m. in Hewson Hall 2004.

  • 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

Each semester Culverhouse will host talks by up to two high-profile speakers whose research spans multiple disciplines.

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
  • April 11, 2025 from 2:00-3:00pm
  • Hewson Hall 1017AB 
  • Dr. Maria Minniti – Bantle Chair in Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, Chair, Department of Entrepreneurship and Emerging Enterprises
  • Whitman School of Management, Syracuse University
  • “Game of Drones: Entrepreneurial Firms and Strategic Coalitions in an Emerging Industry”

DEPARTMENTAL SEMINAR SERIES