Category: Recent Seminars

Date: 25 March 2026, Wednesday Time: 10.30 – 11.30 Place: MA-330 "What the future may hold: Market formation of Social AI through sociotechnical imaginaries" by Hafize Çelik University of Bath https://zoom.us/j/8909487052?omn=92074757718 Meeting ID: 890 948 7052 Abstract  Artificial Intelligence marketplace offers a diverse set of consumer experiences with social AI services such as personal assistantship (e.g., ChatGPT, Siri), synthetic companionship (e.g., Replika), service workforce (e.g., Pepper), and care giving services (e.g., Paro). However, similar social AI products have been imagined by science fiction movies for the last 100 years. Drawing on Jasanoff and Kim’s (2009) sociotechnical imaginaries lens and Sara Mills’ (1997) discourse analysis, this research analyses fifteen systematically selected science fiction movies depicting social AI to explore how science-fiction movies imagine the future(s) of social AI market(s) and why…

Date: 09 March 2026, Monday Time: 13.30 – 14.30 Place: MA-330 "Accuracy and uncertainty in venture selection: The roles of experience and complexity” by Thomas Astebro HEC Paris Abstract  Venture capitalists, business angels, funding agencies, and incubators evaluate ventures,a difficult task where decision uncertainty is high. We examine how the degree of cognitive complexity and human expertise affects judges’ admission recommendations at an incubator. Judges read an application, use preset criteria to score it, and form an intuitive overall judgment to accept or reject the application. We model and test how cognitive complexity and judge expertise affect this judgment through a Bayesian classification model, with implications on classification uncertainty and accuracy. Judges demonstrate poor accuracy in evaluating venture quality, but we show that the decision environment is so noisy that…

Date: 04 March 2026, Wednesday Time: 10.30 – 11.30 Place: MA-330 "The Accredited Investor Definition, Private Investments, and Wealth Inequality in the US” by Aras Canipek Columbia University & SAFE Abstract  I study household finances around the income eligibility rules of the accredited investor definition that allow only high-income households access to private investments. Such investments have recently been linked to higher returns and the increase in wealth inequality. My analysis shows that access to private markets increases private investments. The result provides an answer to an important question in the literature and in politics: differences in private investments are not only caused by differences in abilities and tastes between wealthy and poor households, but also simply by access to private investments. Moreover, I find discontinuities in wealth and returns.…

Date: 25 February 2026, Wednesday Time: 10.30 – 11.30 Place: MA-330 "From Harm to Harmony? Epistemic Dominance and the Practice of Moral Repair” by Jordi Vives IESE Abstract  The restoration of damaged stakeholder relationships after a transgression, “moral repair,” has become an important and visible corporate practice. Yet, business ethics research offers incomplete guidance on it, because although organizations are investing in moral repair, victims frequently report dissatisfaction. Critical scholars generally attribute these failures to systemic power, but tend to overlook organization level repair tactics. Integrating these perspectives, we examine how systemic power shapes moral repair. Drawing on a case study of corporate repair efforts after the 2012 Marikana massacre in South Africa, we show that enduring victim dissatisfaction arises from epistemic dominance, a form of hegemonic power rooted in…