Friday Research Workshops

Each Friday afternoon during the school year, the IDSc Department and the MISRC host Friday Research Workshops. These are discussion seminars for PhD students, university faculty and interested Corporate Partners that focus on new research and research-related topics. The presenter typically provides a working paper two weeks in advance. We post the paper online so that it is available for attendees to read during the week of the workshop. The workshops usually begin with presentations of their work by the speaker, followed by a lively discussion. Doctoral students are asked to prepare a three questions in advance. Professor Gordon Davis coordinated the Friday Research Workshops for many years, prior to his retirement. Professor Fred Riggins coordinated the workshop after him. Naren Peddibhotla is the current Friday Research Workshop Coordinator. If you would like to visit to present your research, please contact Naren at npeddibhotla@csom.umn.edu

Friday Research Workshops Spring 2007 Calendar
12:15 - 1:30 PM, Location: CSOM 1-143

Date	Speaker	Paper
01/19	Jeffrey Hu Assistant Professor, Purdue University (Presentation moved up to 11.30 am in CSOM 1-127)	Goodbye Pareto principle, hello long tail: The effect of search costs on the concentration of product sales
01/26	Faculty candidate presentation
02/02	Faculty candidate presentation
02/09	Faculty candidate presentation
02/16	Alok Gupta Professor, Carlson School of Mgmt, University of Minnesota	Predicting bidders' willingness to pay in online multi-unit ascending auctions: Analytical and empirical insights
02/23	Oliver Yao Assistant Professor, Lehigh University	Goodbye price dispersion? Evidence from transaction prices in electronic markets Private network EDI vs. Internet electronic markets: A direct comparison of fulfillment performance
03/02	Viswanath Venkatesh Professor, University of Arkansas (Workshop cancelled due to the weather)	Coping with new digital networks: Understanding employee job performance using social network and support perspectives
03/09	Ram Gopal Professor, University of Connecticut	The effect of digital sharing technologies on music markets: A survival analysis of albums on ranking charts
03/16	---- No Workshop due to Spring Break ----
03/23	Susan Brown Associate Professor, University of Arizona	Expectation confirmation in technology adoption: An examination of six competing theoretical models
03/30	Mu Xia Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Unravel the drivers of online sharing communities: An empirical investigation
04/06	Faculty candidate presentation (V. Sambamurthy's talk postponed to another semester)
04/13	John King Professor, University of Michigan	Modern information infrastructure in the support of distributed collective practice in transport
04/20	Vidyanand Choudhary Assistant Professor, University of California, Irvine	Use of pricing schemes for differentiating information goods
04/27	Bob Zmud Professor, University of Oklahoma	Value implications of IT outsourcing contextual characteristics (Presentation slides  )
05/04	Eric Walden Assistant Professor, Texas Tech University	Standards development as transactions for bundles of intellectual property

Workshop schedule for previous semesters