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April 2026 Issue

WHAT'S THE BIG IDEA?

Diwakar Gupta

 

 

Financial Terms, Operational Goals

Operations are the value-creation engine of an enterprise; working capital is the engine oil. Just as oil must be carefully formulated …

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Awards

Awards

IROM professor Sirkka Jarvenpaa received an honorary doctorate from the Copenhagen Business School for exceptional impact in academia and industry.

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Student Spotlight

Ph.D. Student Spotlight: Yunxiang Bai

Yunxiang Bai is a Ph.D. candidate in strategic management, completing his dissertation under the supervision of Francisco Polidoro.

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Thank You

A Special Thank-You!

Thank you to all the faculty members and Ph.D. students who participated in the Research Pitches: Ph.D.-Faculty Speed Dating on March 6. 

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Events

Upcoming Events

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

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Funding

Research Funding Opportunities

We are pleased to announce the continued success of the McCombs Undergraduate Research Assistantships (URA) Program.

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Just Accepted Journal Publications

Yong Yu (Accounting)
“In Search of Shares: Benchmarked Ownership, Short Covering, and Price Efficiency”
Management Science

Hayden T. Gunnell (Accounting)
“Un-Nudging Pay Gaps: The Role of Pay Raise Budget Framing”
The Accounting Review

Jeffrey Hales (Accounting)
“Designing and Implementing a Sustainability Reporting Course”
Issues in Accounting Education

Ronghuo Zheng (Accounting)
“Whistleblowing and Internal Communication Free”
The Accounting Review

Cesare Fracassi (Finance)
“Adverse Selection in Corporate Loan Markets”
The Journal of Finance

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

Laura L. Starks (Finance)
“Gender Pay Gap and Cultural Values”
Journal of Financial & Quantitative Analysis

Guoming Lai (IROM)
“Managing the Two-Tier Healthcare System: Referral Discounts and Artificial Intelligence-Based Diagnosis”
International Journal of Production Research

Metin Sengul (Management)
“Comanaging in Multisubsidiary Firms: The Role of Complementary and Substitutive Interdependencies”
Organization Science

Yan Leng (IROM)
“Interpretable Recommendations and Parameter-Grounded Explanations With Multi-Graph Attention”
Information Systems Research

Shefali V. Patil (Management)
“The Hidden Costs of Outsourcing Judgment to AI Suppliers”
California Management Review

Shefali V. Patil (Management)
“Protecting Clinical Value Judgment in the Age of AI”
npj Digital Medicine

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