Our Sustainability Seminars provide a platform for presenting and discussing ongoing research and contemporary issues related to sustainability, with contributions from faculty members and invited scholars.
Finance
- October 28, 2021, Victor Maas, University of Amsterdam, Promote Internally or Hire Externally? The Role of Trust, Reciprocity, and Performance Measurement Precision
- March 4, 2022, Aycan Adrian Corum, Cornell University, Governance by Regulation vs. Prices: Mitigating Short-Termism under Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection
- March 25, 2022, Michael Halling, University of Luxembourg, Primary Corporate Bond Markets and Social Responsibility
- February 24, 2023, Ting Xu, University of Toronto, The Effect of Childcare Access on Women’s Careers and Firm Performance
- April 7, 2023, Stefan Obernberger, Erasmus University, Going public and the internal organization of the firm
- May 12, 2023, Uğur Lel, University of Georgia, Toxic CEOs, ESG Funds as Watchdogs, and the Labor Market Outcomes
- April 19, 2024, Dong Lou, London School of Economics, Inferring Mutual Fund Intra-Quarter Trading An Application to ESG Window Dressing
- December 18, 2024, Güner Velioğlu, Loyola University, Are ESG ratings relevant? Evidence from dividend cuts
- February 12, 2025, Minjia Zhang, University of Manchester, Political Bias in the Coverage of Corporate Misconduct: Effects on Employees and Managers
- February 28, 2025, Mariassunta Giannetti, Stockholm School of Business, Beyond ESG: Executive Pay Metrics and Shareholder Support
- October 24, 2025, Merih Sevilir, IWH Halle / ESMT, Can Nonprofits Save Lives During Financial Stress? Evidence from the Hospital Industry
- January 30, 2026, Ehsan Mahdikhani, Stockholm School of Economics, Breaching the Chinese Wall: Cross-Market Information Flow Following Financial Institution Mergers
- February 04, 2026, Dean Ryu, Saïd Business School – Oxford, The Pricing and Economic Impact of Legal Risk
- February 11, 2026, Okan Akarsu, Sabancı University, Inflation Expectations and Firms’ Decisions in High Inflation
- February 18, 2026, Rubén Fernández-Fuertes, Bocconi University, Monetary Policy Shocks: A New Hope — Large Language Models and Central Bank Communication
- March 04, 2026, Aras Canipek, Columbia University, The Accredited Investor Definition, Private Investments, and Wealth Inequality in the US
- March 27, 2026, Lin William Cong, Cornell University, AI for Economics and FIN
- April 22, 2026, Tobias Berg, Goethe University Frankfurt, CBDCs, Payment Firms, and Geopolitics
- April 29, 2026, Philipp Krüger, University of Geneva, The Green Transition: Evidence from Corporate Green Revenues
- May 08, 2026, Igor Makarov, London School of Economics, Leveraging to Lend: A Theory of Lax Credit
Operations Management
- January 8, 2021, Jamal Abdul Nasir, The University of Hong Kong
A decision support framework for home health care transportation with simultaneous multi-vehicle routing and staff scheduling synchronization - April 16, 2021, Heikki Peura, Imperial College Business School
Capacity Expansion in Service Platforms: Financing vs. Employment - December 1, 2021, Onur Boyabatlı, Singapore Management University
Operations Management for Sustainable Systems: Agriculture, Carbon Footprint, and Healthcare
Labor Malpractice: The Role of Operations and Supply Chains - February 9, 2022, Fikri Küçüksayacıgil, University of California San Diego
Planning Energy Transportation under Long-term Uncertainties - March 2, 2022, Canberk Üçel, University of Pennsylvania
What Are the Drivers of (Low) Farm Productivity? Smallholder Coconut Farming in the Philippines - November 17, 2023, Burhaneddin Sandıkçı, Istanbul Technical University
The Discard Problem in Deceased Donor Organ Transplantation - December 8, 2023, Utku Serhatlı, Nova School of Business & Economics
When Doing Good May Backfire: Smallholder-Farmer Selection into Yield-Improvement Programs - December 17, 2025, Ke Sun, McGill University, Modeling and Analysis of On-demand Service Systems
- December 26, 2025, Atalay Atasu, INSEAD, Operational Transparency in Zero Waste Management
- June 01, 2026, Mert Hakan Hekimoğlu, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Contract Design for Coffee Supply Chain Coordination under Uncertainty and Strategic Default
Marketing
- June 7, 2021, Meltem Türe, University of London
Consumer Responsibilization, Waste Risks, and Sustainability: A Research Agenda in Consumer Waste Management - October 5, 2021, Selcen Erdem, Novartis
Sustainability in Business - November 3, 2023, Rohit Varman, University of Birmingham
Theorizing Necroptics: Invisibilization of Violence and Death-Worlds - October 18, 2024, Julien Cayla, Nanyang Business School, Changing the Market with Stories: Social Media Influencers as Innovation Catalysts
- November 08, 2024, Francesca Sotgiu, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, From Washing to Hushing: Brand Ecosystem Positioning Strategies and Their Impact on Social Media Engagement
- April 16, 2025, Hanife Armut, Koç University, Impact Timing versus Magnitude: Consumer Perceptions of Nonprofits’ Resource Allocation Strategies
- November 14, 2025, Fleura Bardhi, Bayes Business School, Anti-Consumerist Hedonism
- December 23, 2025, David Faro, London Business School, Time-Left Versus Future-Age: How Framing Life and Healthy Life Expectancy Shapes Perceived Time and Health Decisions
- January 07, 2026, Utku Ay, University of Arizona, Inclusive Exclusion: When Market Expansion Reinforces Exclusion
- January 19, 2026, Alireza Golmohammadi, Belk College of Business, Digital Solutions to the Obesity Crisis: Evaluating the Impact of Online Grocery Delivery Services
- March 13, 2026, Kaisa Koskela-Huotari, Stockholm School of Economics, Multi-stakeholder market shaping for sustainability: An institutional fields perspective
Management
- December 22, 2021, Semih Yılmaz, California State University East Bay
Implications of Counterfactual Thinking for Sustainable Service Consumption - May 11, 2022, Marta Gasparin, Copenhagen Business School
Slow design-driven innovation: A response to our future in the Anthropocene epoch - December 15, 2023, Jonatan Pinkse, University of Manchester
How can we drive firms to deliver on net zero - April 3, 2024, Dirk Matten, York University
ESG as the latest entrant to the alphabet soup: The challenges and dynamics of Business & Society research - October 25, 2024, İzzet Sıdkı Darandeli, California State University, Regulate first, innovate later? An exploration into Autonomous Vehicle Industry
- November 15, 2024, Richard A. Hunt, Virginia Tech, Entrepreneurship In Abandoned Places: From Ghost Towns and Vacant Cities to the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
- November 20, 2024, Oğuz Gençay, University of Maryland, Jazzing Through Task Uncertainty: The Improvisation Mindset, Appraisals, and Performance in Uncertain Tasks
- September 19, 2025, Secki Jose, UWE Bristol, The Arc of ‘Control’ of Work in the Indian IT Industry
- October 17, 2025, Dirk Matten, York University, Fascism as a MAN philosophy
- October 22, 2025, Turanay Caner, NC State University, Supply MAN Criteria to Reassess if Suppliers Are Strategic: An Engaged Scholarship Approach
- November 12, 2025, Bahar Moralıgil, Loughborough University, Don’t judge a leader by their reluctance
- December 05, 2025, Arzu Wasti, Sabancı University, Distrust Spillovers: Exploring the Role of the Socio-Cultural Context
- January 28, 2026, Marius Van Dijke, RSM, Why Do I Do What I Do? How Searching for Meaning at Work Can Facilitate the Spread of Unethical Conduct Through organizations
- February 25, 2026, Jordi Vives, IESE, From Harm to Harmony? Epistemic Dominance and the Practice of Moral Repair
- March 09, 2026, Thomas Astebro, HEC Paris, Accuracy and uncertainty in venture selection: The roles of experience and complexity
- April 01, 2026, Amir Mehralian, University of Exeter, Balancing Exploration and Exploitation: The Role of Intuition–Analysis Versatility and Paradoxical Leadership
- April 27, 2026, Jeffrey McMullen, Imperial College London, Empowered but not Emancipated: Deferential Entrepreneurship under Coercion