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THE GENESIS OF BIG IDEAS

All About the Benjamins?

“Just follow the money.” As a scientist in a business school, I’ve heard countless variations of that famous quote from "All the President’s Men." They pop up in both teaching and research venues … Read more

WHAT'S THE BIG IDEA?

Organization Design Is Crucial

Companies do not chase a single goal. A manufacturer cuts costs, grows revenue, and improves margins all at once. A public company juggles quarterly earnings with long-term shareholder value … Read more

The I In AI: Workers Better — And Organizations Worse

Recently, I watched a supply chain consultant, who is a self-confessed poor programmer, use AI to generate 7,000 lines of code in five minutes to predict demand across a supply chain … Read more

Awards

This month we are honoring Timothy Werner who won the 2026 Academy of Management's SIM award. 

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Ph.D. Student Spotlight: Constanza Urdaneta Romano

Constanza is a Ph.D. candidate in the marketing strategy track. 

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URA Student Spotlight:  Jiyi Liew

Jiyi is a finance major entering their third and final year at McCombs. 

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URA Student Spotlight:  Dilan Patel

Dilan is a senior studying management information systems through the Canfield Business Honors Program. 

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A Special Thank-You!

Thank you to all the faculty who participated in the faculty and staff Momentum gathering on Aug. 13.

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Upcoming Events

Join us throughout the month of September for research events, lunches, and seminars.

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Research Funding Opportunities

We are pleased to announce the continued success of the McCombs Undergraduate Research Assistant Program.

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Just Accepted Journal Publications

Matthew Kubic (Accounting)
“The Impact of the SEC's Office of Minority and Women Inclusion: Evidence From the Filing Review Process”
The Accounting Review

Ehud Ronn (Finance)
“Quantifying the Determinants of the US Treasury Term Premium: Theory and Empirical Results”
The Journal of Fixed Income

Yan Leng (IROM)
“When Behavioral Data Betray Users: A Diagnostic and Protective Framework Against Social Interaction Leakages”
Information Systems Research

Rohan Ghuge (IROM)
“Informative Path Planning With Limited Adaptivity”
INFORMS Journal on Computing

Caleb Kwon (IROM)
“The Real Effects of Fair Workweek Laws on Work Schedules: Evidence From Los Angeles”
Management Science

Yan Leng (IROM)
“Beyond Pairwise Network Interactions: Implications for Information Centrality”
Information Systems Research

Andrew B. Whinston (IROM)
“Strategic Throttling in Large Cloud Computing Platforms”
Information Systems Research

Doug J. Chung (Marketing)
“Dynamic Synthetic Control: Estimating the Marketing Efforts To Promote a Higher-Than-Required Wage to Local Businesses”
Marketing Letters

Andrew Belnap (Accounting)
“Social Tax Discontent and Individual Tax Avoidance”
The Accounting Review

Eric W. Chan (Accounting)
“When Is It Fairer To Allocate Resources for Training to Lower-Performing Versus Higher-Performing Employees?”
Journal of Accounting Research

Caitlin Gorback (Finance)
“Global Capital and Local Assets: House Prices, Quantities, and Elasticities”
The Review of Financial Studies

Ashish Agarwal, Anitesh Barua, Wen Wen, and Fangchen Song [Ph.D. Student] (IROM)
“Why Some Junior Employees Work Well With AI — and Others Don't”
Harvard Business Review

Ashish Agarwal, Wen Wen, and Fangchen Song [Ph.D. Student] (IROM)
“The Impact of Generative AI on Collaborative Open-Source Software Development: Evidence From GitHub Copilot”
Information Systems Research

William Fuchs (Finance)
“Shaping Institutions”
American Economics Journal: Applied Economics

Rui Gao (IROM)
“Sinkhorn Distributionally Robust Optimization”
Operations Research

Stathis Tompaidis (IROM)
“Tax Revenue From Realized Capital Gains”
Review of Finance

Ram Ranganathan (Management)
“Knowledge Behind Firewalls: How Rivalry Among Partners Constrains Innovation Inside Firms”
Organization Science

Muhammad Jawad (IROM)
“Why Video Reviews Are Not Always Better: The Role of Format-Stage Fit in Online Decision-Making”
Decision Support Systems

Hyun Hwang (Accounting)
“Auditing in the Digital Age: Determinants and Consequences of Technology Investment”
The Accounting Review

Stathis Tompaidis (IROM)
“Intermediation Networks and Derivative Market Liquidity: Evidence From Credit Default Swap Markets”
Review of Finance

Luis L. Martins (Management)
“Co-Explorers of the Imaginary: How Fictional Framing Legitimates Radical Novelty by Connecting Entrepreneurial Imagination to Stakeholder Possibilistic Thinking”
Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal

Gizem Yalcin Williams (Marketing)
“Algorithmic Pricing: Implications for Marketing Strategy and Regulation”
International Journal of Research in Marketing

Eric W. Chan (Accounting)
“Employee-Level Real Activities Management, Employee Performance, and Managerial Target Setting”
The Accounting Review

Caitlin Gorback (Finance)
“Ride-Sharing and the Redistribution of Economic Activity”
Journal of Urban Economics

Amiyatosh Purnanandam (Finance)
“Carbon Emissions and Shareholder Value: Causal Evidence From the US Power Utilities”
The Journal of Finance

Indranil Bardhan, Wen Wen, and Minghong Yuan [Ph.D. Student] (IROM)
“Can Information Sharing Reduce Diagnostic Disparate Impact? Evidence From a Health Information Exchange”
Management Science