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The MTEI Research Seminars

The MTEI Research Seminars have been set up with the objectives to invite scholars to present their ongoing research, to expose PhD students to current research being done in their respective fields, to provide a forum for learning about the ongoing research in management of technology, to help identify new directions for research agendas, to enhance the exchange of ideas and offer a venue for greater networking with the academic and research community outside CDM and EPFL and to create greater visibility for CDM as a center for research in Europe as well as in the US.

From distributional ambiguity to gradient flows: Wasserstein, Fisher-Rao, and kernel approximation

28-11-202428-11-2024

With: Dr. Jia-Jie Zhu Weierstrass Institute, Berlin
Place and room: ODY 4 03
Category: Conferences – Seminars

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REGIS: REading Group in Innovation Studies

REGIS is a bi-weekly, pan-European virtual reading group series focusing on Science, Technology, and Innovation topics.

REGIS’ main objectives are twofold.

First, it seeks to train young scholars. We want to help Ph.D. students and early-career researchers to learn new developments and develop their critical thinking by discussing in a friendly and stimulating environment some of the most relevant and recent papers in the field.

Second, it aims at nurturing a community of scholars interested in such topics.

Past seminars

2024

5.3.2024 Dmytro Matsypura, University of Sydney Business School

Wildfire analytics: optimisation of fuel reduction

18.3.2024 Amin Kolarijani, Delft Center for Systems and Control

Solving the Bellman equation: Second-order type methods and the dual domain approach

22.4.24 Selva Nadarajah University of Illinois Chicago (UIC)

Structure Aware Lagrangian Relaxations with Approximation Guarantees for Weakly Coupled Markov Decision Processes

24.5.24 Prof. Zijian Guo, Rutgers University

Adversarially Robust Learning: Identification, Estimation, and Uncertainty Quantification

25.6.24 Sajad Khodadadian, Virginia Tech

Tight Finite Time Bounds of Two-Time-Scale Linear Stochastic Approximation with Markovian Noise

25.6.24 Jim Dai, School of ORIE, Cornell University

Towards RL for Operations

28.11.24 Jia-Jie Zhu Weierstrass Institute, Berlin

From distributional ambiguity to gradient flows: Wasserstein, Fisher-Rao, and kernel approximation

4.12.24 Honoray lecture Prof. Dominique Foray

Good Innovation Economics for Hard Times

2023

11.01 Paul Gölz, Harvard Business School

Fair, representative and transparent algorithms for citizens’ assemblies

11.01 Neha Sharma, Kellogg School of Management

Structuring online communities

11.01 Qimeng Yu, Northwestern University

Generalized submodular optimization — theory, algorithms and applications

12.01 Isabelle Rao, Stanford University

Optimal responses to epidemics: Models to support good decisions

12.01 Andrés Cristi, Universidad de Chile

Online combinatorial auctions

22.02 Ulrich Thonemann, Uni. of Cologne

Behavioral management science

09.03 Man-Chung Yue, University of Hong Kong

Generalized power methods for group synchronization problems

31.03 Yara Kayyali Elalem, EPFL

Optimizing sales forecasting, inventory, pricing and sourcing decisions

18.04 Napat Rujeerapaiboon, National University of Singapore

Regret minimization for robust and satisficing monopolists

23.06 Karthyek Murthy, Singapore University of Technology and Design

Locally robust models for optimization under tail-based data imbalance

04.07 Cynthia Zeng, MIT

Melting icebergs, severe draughts, dying penguins — how can OR save our planet?

04.10 Çağıl Koçyiğit, University of Luxembourg

Learning optimal and fair policies for online allocation of scarce societal resources from data collected in deployment

03.11 Marc Gruber, EPFL, Gideon Markman, Colorado State University, Chet Miller, University of Houston, Kris Byron, Georgia State University, Dirk Lindebaum, Grenoble Ecole de Management, Matthew Cronin, George Mason University, Elizabeth Rose, University of Leeds, Geoffrey Wood, Western University, Laszlo Tihanyi, Rice University

Meeting of the editors-in-chief of the Academy of Management Journal

2022

17.3.2022 Luca Ganassali, Inria

“Statistical and computational limits for sparse graph alignment”

14.6.22 Prof. Morten Huse, Norwegian Business School

“Resolving the crisis in research by changing the game”

2021

16.9.2021 Krzysztof POSTEK, Delft Institute of Applied Mathematics

“An Adaptive Robust Optimization Model for Parallel Machine Scheduling”

21.9.2021 Nathan KALLUS, Cornell University

“Statistical Learning and Contextual Stochastic Optimization: Separate or Integrate?”

22.11.2021 Prof. Carolin BOCK, TU Darmstadt

“Hope this E-Mail finds you well – An empirical investigation on the ambiguous influence of empathy on entrepreneurial success”

19.11.2021 Adrian ESTEBAN PÉREZ, University of Malaga

“Distributionally Robust Optimal Power Flow with Contextual Information”

2020

2.11.2020 Dr. Lisa Hehenberger, ESADE

“Internalizing Social Impact through Calculative Devices: The Case of Impact Investing”

11.5.2020 Prof. Henry Sauermann, ESMT Berlin

“What’s the problem? Crowdsourcing research questions in science”

(7 additional seminars were cancelled due to the pandemic)

2019

17.12.19	Prof. Huan Xu, Georgia Tech “The online saddle point problem and its applications”
12.12.19	Prof. Stefano Breschi, Bocconi University “The Differential Impact of Intra-Firm Collaboration and Knowledge Network Centrality on Employees’ Likelihood of Leaving the Firm”
9.12.19	Dr. Wei Yang Tham, Harvard University “Science, Interrupted: How Scientists Respond to Funding Disruptions”
20.11.19	Prof. Alfonso Gambardella, Bocconi University Seminar organized in collaboration with UNIL-HEC
30.10.19	Dr. Vivianna Fang, ETH Zurich “Leader Emergence in Nascent Venture Teams: The Critical Roles of Individual Emotion Regulation and Team Emotions”
29.10.19	Conférence. “Challenges for an innovative Society: crossing perspectives between Politics, Academics and Industry”
24.10.19	Prof. Olof Ejermo, Lund University “Incubators, innovation and productivity”
23.10.19	Prof. Eliana Crosina, Babson College “Start Me Up: On the Construction of Workspace and Identity among Co-Located Entrepreneurs”
16.10.19	Prof. Fabian Gaessler, TU Munich “Training with AI, Winning Against Humans – Evidence from Chess Computers”
10.10.19	Prof. Bruno Cassiman, IESE Business School The Impact of Innovation on Productivity: Profitability and Technical Efficiency
18.9.19	Dr. Rainer Widmann, Max Planck Institute “Immigrant inventors and local income taxes: evidence from Swiss municipalities”
17.9.19	Prof. Matt Marx, Boston University “From Theory to Practice: Field Experimental Evidence on Early Exposure of Engineering Majors to Professional Work”
10.9.19	Prof. Abhishek Nagaraj, UC Berkeley “The Private Impact of Public Information: Landsat Satellite Maps and Gold Exploration”
5.9.19	Jean Pauphilet, MIT Interpretable Analytics for Healthcare Operations: New algorithms and implementation
15.8.19	Prof. Melvyn Sim, National University of Singapore Robust Data-Driven Vehicle Routing with Time Windows
12.8.19	Prof. Erick Delage, HEC Montreal “Adjustable Robust Optimization Reformulations of Two-Stage Worst-case Regret Minimization Problems”
3.7.19	Prof. Angelos Georghiou, McGill University Robust Optimization with Decision-Dependent Information Discovery
20.6.19	Séminaire par Prof. Stefan Feuerriegel, ETHZ “Effective Police Patrolling: A Stratified Monte Carlo Tree Search”
13.6.19	Prof. Margaret Roberts of the University of California, San Diego “ Censored: Distraction and Diversion Inside China’s Great Firewall?”
11.6.19	Francesca Melillo, KU Leuven “Shooting Stars? Uncertainty in Hiring Entrepreneurs “
20.5.19	Prof. Elizabeth Webster, Swinburne University of Technology “Which industries produce most R&D external benefits? “
15.5.19	Prof. Myriam Mariani, Bocconi University “Trained to Lead: Evidence from Industrial Research”
14.5.19	Prof. Brian Connelly, Auburn University “CEO Dismissal: Consequences for Competitors”
3.5.19	Par Prof. James A. Evans, University of Chicago « The Science of Science: What makes science effective?
17.4.19	Prof. Petra Moser, NYU Stern “Go North! Unintended Effects of Immigration Quotas on Science and Invention”
11.4.19	Naïk Londono, David Baur, AELER Technologies SA Matthew Reali, Masoud Talebi Amiri, PONERA Group Swiss Logistics Day: Logistics of the Future, Intelligent Container & Palette
10.4.19	Prof. Sophie Bacq, Northeastern University “In(conspicuous): Immigration and visibility enhancing strategic choices of informal economy entrepreneurs “
1.4.19	Prof. Carina Lomberg, Technical University of Denmark “The Burnout Epidemic—How Burnout Spreads Across Organizations”
28.3.19	Prof. Michela Giorcelli, UCLA “Business-School Education and Its Effects on Manufacturing Industry Performance”
20.3.19	Prof. Samina Karim, Norheastern University
13.3.19	Prof. Paola Criscuolo, Imperial College London “The sequence effect on the selection of R&D Projects”
28.2.19	Prof. Fabiana Visentin, University of Maastricht & Prof. Paula Stephan, Georgia State University “Research Talks on Science Funding”
21.2.19	Prof. Frank Dobbin, Harvard University Seminar organized in collaboration with UNIL-HEC “Does Diversity Management Increase Diversity? Evidence from Industry and Academia “
4.2.19	Prof. Immanuel Bomze, University of Vienna “Robust clustering in social networks”
4.2.19	Séminaire par Dr. Dominique Guellec, OECD “Innovation policies in the digital age”

2015

15.01.2015	Jean-Luc Arregle, EM Lyon Business School* “The Semiglobalization Effect: MNES’ Internationalization Patterns and Technological Advantage”
15.01.2015	Riikka Mirja Sarala, University of North Carolina at Greensboro* “A Socio-Cultural Perspective on Knowledge Transfer in Mergers and Acquisitions”
16.01.2015	José Mata, Nova School of Business and Economics, Lisbon* “The Termination of International Joint Ventures: Closure and Acquisition by Domestic and Foreign Partners”
16.01.2015	Tal Simons, Tilburg University* “There is no beer without a smoke: Community Cohesion and neighboring communities’ effects on organizational resistance to anti smoking regulations in the Dutch Hospitality Industry”
16.01.2015	Prof. Fernando Suarez, Boston University “New approaches to examining the production of science?”
05.02.2015	Tobias Hahn, KEDGE Business School* “Ambidexterity for Corporate Social Performance”
06.02.2015	Patrick Haack, University of Zürich* “Corporate Responsibility as Myth and Ceremony: Bad, but not for Good”
06.02.2015	Juliane Reineck, Warwick Business School* “A Model of Corporate Responsibilization for Wicked Problems. Linking Companies to a Humanitarian Crisis”
06.02.2015	Prof. Suzanne de Treville, University of Lausanne “Gaining competitiveness from lead time: A quantitative-finance approach”
13.02.2015	Gigi Wang, Stanford-Venture Lab “Innovative Digital Business Models”
16.02.2015	Prof. Bezalel Gavish, Cox School of Business “Warranty Policy Impact on Net Revenues as a Function of Part Replacements and Optional Purchases”
18.02.2015	Prof. Kenneth Young, Purdue University “Science and the Mobility Discount: Evidence from Initial Public Offerings”
19.02.2015	Prof. Yuri Levin, Queen’s School of Business “Quantity Competition in the Presence of Strategic Consumers”
04.03.2015	Jorge Walter, The George Washington University* “Prior experience, bargaining power, and exclusivity in technology licensing agreements” Host(s): Xavier Castañer
12.03.2015	Sim B. Sitkin, Duke University, Fuqua School of Business* “Crafting theory that matters: Drive for testable understanding and the impact will follow
13.03.2015	Prof. Charles Dhanaraj, IMD “Evolution of Multinational R&D in Emerging Markets”
16.03.2015	Dr. Georg Licht, Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung “Incentive effects of joint programming – the case of the EUROSTARS programme”
26.03.2015	Prof. Yan Cimon, Université Laval, Quebec “The evolution of industry-level Business Models in manufacturing: a multi-industry perspective”
27.03.2015	Dr. Stefanie Haustein, University of Montreal “Scholarly communication and social media: should tweets be used to measure research impact?”
10.04.2015	Prof. Dovev Lavie, Technion “The Contingent Value of the Dedicated Alliance Function”
16.04.2015	Swiss Logistics Day 2015 – Portes Ouvertes de l’IML
20.04.2015	Prof. Anne Parmigiani, University of Oregon “Friends and Profits Don’t Mix: The Performance Implications of Repeated Partnerships”
22.04.2015	Jacopo Bizzotto, UiO, Oslo* “Contingent Payments and Certification Quality”, Host(s): Simona Grassi
29.04.2015	Philipp Meyer-Doyle, INSEAD* “How Performance Incentives Shape Individual Exploration and Exploitation: Evidence from Micro-data1”, Host(s): Xavier Castañer
05.05.2015	Daniel Neicu, KU Leuven “Thanks, but no thanks: Companies’ Response to R&D tax Credits”
13.05.2015	Kateryna Chepynoga, HEC Lausanne* “The drivers of unaffordable medication against chronic diseases in developing countries: procurement, retail price or both”
20.05.2015	Prof. Bart Clarysse, Imperial College London
21.05.2015	Prof. Joachim Henkel, Technische Universität München “Value capture in hierarchically organized value chains”

27.05.2015	Stefano Bianchini, University of Strasbourg – BETA “The economics of research, consulting, and teaching quality: theory and evidence from a technical university”

01.06.2015	Prof. Jorge Tarzijan, Catholic University of Chile

03.06.2015	DJ Saul, Mattan Griffel & Marc Gruber “Guerilla Marketing and Growth Hacking”

03.06.2015	Daniel Beunza, London School of Economics (LSE) and Political Science* “From artifacts to institutions: A materiality-informed account of change in the responsible investment field” Host(s): Guido Palazzo

10.06.2015	Max Wirz, HEC Lausanne* “Issuing delay and the granularity of debt”

10.06.2015	Prof. Bruno Cirillo, Skema Research Center “Technological Search through Corporate Spinouts in the U.S. Information and Communication Technology Industry, 1975-2008”

11.06.2015	Philippe Déborah, HEC Lausanne* “Making sense of environmental actions in time and space”

12.06.2015	Dr. Benedetto Lepori, University of Lugano “Competition for talent. Country and organizational-level effects in the internationalization of European higher education institutions”

15.06.2015	Prof. Liliana Doganova, Mines ParisTech “The performativity of valuation devices: business models and the renewal of markets”

22.07.2015	Prof. Erick Delage, HEC Montréal “Linearized Robust Counterparts of Two-Stage Distribution Problems”

02.09.2015	Max Wirz, HEC Lausanne* “Delay as a nancing friction: Evidence from the 2005 Securities Oering Reform”

09.09.2015	Prof. Lena Tsipouri, University of Athens “The Greek crisis Under the lens of innovation Policy”

18.09.2015	Prof. Neil Pollock, University of Edinburgh “How Industry Analysts Shape the Digital Future”

24.09.2015	Prof. Jonathan Story, INSEAD Global energy futures and country risk”

02.10.2015	Gianluca Tarasconi, Bocconi University “EP Register for Patent Data Analysis”

07.10.2015	Jeffrey Kuhn, PhD Candidate, UC Berkeley Haas School of Business “Does Patent Scope Affect Cumulative Innovation? Evidence from Claim Narrowing During USPTO Examinations”

07.10.2015	José Mata, HEC Lausanne* “Temporary investment incentives and divestment by foreign firms” http://www.hec.unil.ch/sgs/seminars/brownbag?timeline=pastwww.hec.unil.ch/sgs/seminars/brownbag

16.10.2015	Dr. Benjamin Balsmeier, KU Leuven “Independent Boards and Innovation”

23.10.2015	Prof. Andrea Mina, University of Cambridge “The Soft Company Business Model of High-Tech Growth”

06.11.2015	Prof. Francesco Quatraro, University of Torino “Eco-innovations and firms’ market value: a micro-econometric analysis of European data”

13.11.2015	Prof. Cristina Rossi, Politecnico di Milano “TMT organization and opportunity exploitation: An organizational configuration approach”

18.11.2015	Prof. Ari Ginsberg, NYU Stern “Learning from Unusual Success: How Exit Attainment Discrepancy Influences Venture Capital Investments in an Emerging Sector”

18.11.2015	Ryall Michael, University of Toronto* “Value Capture Theory: A Strategic Management Review” Host(s): Jean-Philippe Bonardi

25.11.2015	Dimitrija Kalanoski, HEC Lausanne* “Horizontal acquisitions, joint-ventures and competitive dynamics in industrial markets”

02.12.2015	Emilio Marti, Cass Business School, City University London* “Institutional maintenance by filling the space of critique: How critics stabilize financial regulation in the United States” Host(s): Patrick Haack

15.12.2015	Dr. Gianluca Misuraca, Information Society Unit of the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre “Envisioning Digital Europe 2030: Towards Policy Making 2.0.”

2014

20.01.2014	Prof. Michael D. Ensley, Michael Ensley, Executive Assessment Institute “Reflections on business model innovation”

19.2.2014	Mark Dusheiko (HEC Lausanne)* “Can information technology and greater patient choice improve health care efficiency? The impact of an electronic booking system on outpatient non-attendance”

04.03.2014	Prof. Andrew Hoffman, University of Michigan* “The Culture and Ideology of a Social Consensus on Climate Change” Host: Jeffrey Petty

17.03.2014	Prof. Julia Lane, Senior Managing Economist, American Institutes for Research “New approaches to examining the production of science?”

31.03.2014	Dr. Evangelos Syrigos, University of Zurich “Managerial Evaluation of Resource Value – Standalone Value, Complementary Resources, and Market Structure”

04.04.2014	Dr. James Thompson, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania “Social Entrepreneurship”

08.04.2014	Prof. Stefan Behringer, University of Duisburg-Essen “Direct Provision of a Public Good with Many Agents

09.04.2014	Prof. Aharon Cohen Mohliver, London Business School The Antecedents of Misconduct: Geography of Auditors advice and the Spread of Stock Option Backdating” Host: Xavier Castaner

14.04.2014	Prof. Natalia Levina, New York University “Taking a stance on crowdsourcing: Enacting deep commitments to views of reality and knowledge in exploring IT-enabled opportunities for organizing innovation”

16.04.2014	Prof. Veroniek Collewaert, Vlerick Business School “An Interdependence Theory of Entrepreneurial over Optimism: Evidence from vc-Backed Firms”

16.04.2014	Sarah Stephen, HEC Lausanne*

16.04.2014	Giancarlo Melloni (HEC Lausanne)* “Value Appropriation Strategies. The Case of Small Entrepreneurial Firms in High-Technology Industries”

30.04.2014	Valeria Cavotta, HEC Lausanne* Constructing antagonists and protagonists along the relationship between resources, actions and roles. Framing strategies of an institutional entrepreneur in an overtly resistant field

30.04.2014	Michael, Sorell, HEC Lausanne* “The How, What and When of Capital Structure in Developing and Emerging Markets: A Strategy Tripod Approach”

07.05.2014	Prof. Wong Poh Kam, National University of Singapore “Performance Feedback, Financial Slack and the Innovation Behavior of Firms”

07.05.2014	Olivier Bertrand (Skema Business School)* “Getting by with a Little Help from My Friends: The Relevance of Political Affinity for the Bidding Strategy in Cross-Border Acquisitions” Host(s): Prof. Jean-Philippe Bonardi, UNIL

08.05.2014	MoT Event – Executive Master in Management of Technology “Growing a Lean Start-up”

21.05.2014	The Innovative Governance of Large Urban Systems Research Day

16.05.2014	Prof. Daniel Kuhn, EPFL “Distributionally robust joint chance constraints with second-order moment information “

22.05.2014	Prof. Brett Anitra Gilbert, Rutgers Business School “Entrepreneurs Legitimizing Radical Technologies: A Qualitative Study of Fuel Cell Technology and Industry Emergence”

26.05.2014	Prof. Manuela Hoehn-Weiss, University of Michigan When Partners Give and Take: How Resource Flows Into and Out Of Alliance Portfolios Affect Firm Performance”

28.05.2014	Caterina Moschieri (IE Business School Madrid)* “Policy risk and divestitures: FIRM-specific and macro considerations”

04.06.2014	Prof. Rick Vanden Bergh (University of Vermont) Political Strategy in contested stakeholder environments: evidence from the electricity utility sector”

15.09.2014	Prof. Oliver Alexy, Technische Universität München “Endogenous Resource Revaluation and the Competitive Dynamics of Openness”

26.09.2014	Prof. Sabine Brunswicker, Purdue University

23.10.2014	Prof. Jacques Mairesse, Centre de Recherche en Economie et Statistique “The Relationship between Output and Public Funding in Science: Evidence from the California Institute of Technology”

24.10.2014	Infrastructure Day

10.11.2014	Prof. Denisa Mindruta, HEC Paris “A Two-sided Matching Approach for Partner Selection and Assessing Complementarities in Partners’ Attributes in Inter-firm Alliances”

17.11.2014	Edmund Phelps, Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 2006 “Lost Dynamism and Innovation in the West: What Can be Done?”

10.12.2014	Graduation Ceremony – Executive Master in Global Supply Chain Management

2013

08.01.2013	Prof. Jeffrey Petty (HEC Lausanne)* “From invention breadth to impact: Effects of experience and mindfulness”

08.01.2013	Dr. Florian Ueberbacher (University of St Gallen)* “Toward a Culture Learning Perspective on Entrepreneurs”

08.01.2013	Dr. Emmanuelle Fauchart (University of Strasbourg)* “Symbolic projections in Entrepreneurship: An Identity-based Analysis” Host(s): Déborah Philippe

11.01.2013	Prof. Caroline Flammer (Global Economics and Management, MIT Sloan School of Management)* “Does Product Market Competition Foster Corporate Social Responsibility?”

11.01.2013	Prof. Yuliya Snihur (IESE Business School)* “Legitimacy without imitation: How to achieve robust business model innovation”

11.01.2013	Michael Bikard (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management)* “Is Knowledge Trapped Inside the Ivory Tower? Technology Spawning and the Genesis of New Science-Based Inventions”

17.01.2013	Dr. Ad van den Oord, Durham University Business School “The Relatedness of Technology: Towards a New Measure of Technological Distance”

13.02.2013	MTEI Student seminar : “Empirical Research in the Social Sciences – Crafting, Using and Analyzing Surveys” PhD Student presenting: Melvin Haas

27.02.2013	Valeria Cavotta (HEC Lausanne)* “Sensemaking of Corporate Intervention in Broad Societal Issues: Implications for institutional Change”

28.02.2013	Prof. Veroniek Collewaert, Vlerick Business School “An Interdependence Theory of Entrepreneurial over Optimism: Evidence from vc-Backed Firms”

11.01.2013	MTEI Student seminar : “Crime and security in global supply chains – constructing defensible research design” Discussant: Erik Swars PhD Student presenting: Toni Mannisto

05.03.2013	Brownbag seminar by Prof. Christopher Tucci: “The Role of Advice Sources for Entrepreneurship and Innovation”

05.03.2013	Specialized Masters Day Presentation of the MTE Master

08.03.2013	Prof. Filippo Carlo Wezel, University of Lugano “Being There: Domain Contrast and the Impact of Technological Innovations”

12.03.2013	Prof. Zur Shapira, NYU Stern “Imprinting, inheritance and potency: A genealogical perspective on industry evolution”

13.03.2013	Isabel Fernandez-Mateo (London Business School)* “Coming with Baggage: Past Rejections and Future Relationships in Executive Search” Host(s): Prof. Xavier Castañer, UNIL

20.03.2013	Brownbag Seminar by Dr. Kamal Munir (University of Cambridge)* “Power and Persuasion: Explaining the Rise of Microfinance” Host(s): Prof. Guido Palazzo, UNIL

09.04.2013	Prof. Holger Patzelt, TU Munich “Overcoming The Walls That Constrain Us: The Role Of Entrepreneurship Education Programs In Prison”

17.04.2013	Rashedur Chowdhury (University of Cambridge)* “A Political Stakeholder Theory Model For Firms’ Engagement Strategies With Marginalized Stakeholders” Host(s): Prof. Guido Palazzo, UNIL

24.04.0213	Valeria Cavotta (HEC Lausanne)* Transforming trash into gold: the illegal dumping of hazardous waste by the Mafia

25.04.2013	MoT Event – Executive Master in Management of Technology “Successful Business Models for Start-ups – MoT Event “

01.05.2013	Ulrich Wassmer (Concordia University of Montreal)* “Collaboration Between Firms And NGOs: An Agency Perspective” Host(s): Prof. Déborah Philippe, UNIL

03.05.2013	Faculty Workshop on the European Strategy Entrepreneurship & Innovation (SEI) Coorganized by Prof. Anu Wadhwa

07.05.2013	Prof. André Spicer (Cass Business School, City University London)* “A Stupidity-Based Theory of Organizations” Host(s): Prof. Guido Palazzo, UNIL

13.05.2013	Prof. Isabel Maria Bodas Freitas, Grenoble University “Formalized problem-solving practices and the impact of collaborations with suppliers on firms’ innovative performance”

15.05.2013	Prof. Guido Palazzo, Prof. Ulrich Hoffrage & Prof. Franciska Krings (HEC Lausanne)* “Time and decision making in organizations”

04.06.2013	PATSTATA introductory worskop Dr. Julio Raffo, WIPO

05.06.2013	Dr. Hans Frankort (Cass Business School, City University London)* “Buyer Seller Contact Initiation in Electronic B2B Marketplaces” Host(s): Prof. Xavier Castañer, UNIL

10.06.2013	Prof. Per Davidsson, QUT Business School “Part I ‘Do “Entrepreneurial Opportunities” offer a great future for entrepreneurship research?’ Part II “In the Head of a JBV Editor”

24.06.2013	Prof. Rosemarie Ziedonis, University of Oregon “State Governments as Financiers of Technology Startups: Implications for Firm Performance”

25.06.2013	Prof. Arvidis Ziedonis, University of Oregon “The Private Value of Patents for Entrepreneurial Ventures: Evidence from Medical Devices, Semiconductors, and Software”

11.07.2013	Prof. Stuart Graham, Georgia Institute of Technology “Do Inventors Value Secrecy in Patenting? Evidence from the American Inventor’s Protection Act of 1999”

09.11.2013	Prof. Dirk Czarnitzki, KU Leuven “Counterfactual impact evaluation of cohesion policy at the firm level”

11.09.2013	MTEI Student seminar : “Knowledge Spillovers in the Supply Chain – Evidence from the High Tech Sectors” Discussant: Stefano H. Baruffaldi PhD Student presenting: Olov Isaksson

24.09.2013	Dr. Gaétan de Rassenfosse, University of Melbourne “Why do patents facilitate trade in technology? Testing the appropriation and disclosure effects”

07.10.2013	Prof. Xavier Lecocq, University of Lille 1 “Capabilities of governance structures”

09.10.2013	Adriana Orellana (HEC Lausanne) “The Private Sector Building Peace in Conflict areas: The Case of Colombia” Host(s): Prof. Xavier Castañer, UNIL

16.10.2013	Prof. Brian Tiemkes (VU Amsterdam)* “The Effect of Individualism on Opportunism Propensity in International Strategic Alliances” Host(s): Prof. Xavier Castañer, UNIL

28.10.2013	Prof. Giacomo Negro, Emory Goizeta Business School “Category Signaling and Reputation”

30.10.2013	Prof. Antonio Vaccaro (IESE Business School, Barcelona) “Mafia’s driven Moral Distortion: Insights from Sicily” Host(s): Prof. Guido Palazzo, UNIL

06.11.2013	MTEI Student seminar : “The Fate of Patents: An Exploratory Analysis of Patents as IPO Signals of Reputation Advantage” Discussant: Markus Simeth PhD Student presenting: Ali Mohammadi, School from Politecnico di Milano

15.11.2013	Infrastructure Day – Energy with Doris Leuthard, Federal Councillor

15.11.2013	Prof. Samina Karim, Boston University “Structural Recombination and Innovation: Unlocking Internal Knowledge Synergy through Structural Change”

18.11.2013	Prof. Michael Heeley, Colorado School of Mines “Capturing Value Through Patenting: An Exploration Of Dense Versus Dispersed Patent Portfolios”

18.11.2013	Prof. Sharon Matusik, Colorado School of Mines “Breaking Away: Strategic Action in the Face of Countervailing Norms and Contagion”

20.11.2013	Prof. Simona Grassi (HEC Lausanne)* “Information Acquisition, Referral and Organization”

27.11.2013	José Mata (University Nova from Lisbon) “Entrepreneurial Firms Created Abroad: Liability of Foreignness and Survival” Host(s): Prof. Simona Grassi, UNIL

04.12.2013	Prof. Tomaso Duso, Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf “Ex-Post merger evaluation in the UK retail market for books”

04.12.2013	Prof. Andrew Newman, Boston University* “Loopholes and the Evolution of Contract Form” Host(s): Prof. Simona Grassi, UNIL

12.12.2013	Prof. Yuan Ding, China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) “Making sense of financial information by sophisticated users: The case of R&D reporting”

17.12.2013	Prof. D. J. Wu, Georgia Tech “IT Knowledge Spillovers and Productivity: Evidence from Enterprise Software”

18.12.2013	Amer Maistriau Estefania (University of Geneva / HEC Lausanne)* “To What Extent does Negative Public Exposure on Environmental Issues Increase Environmental Performance?”

2012

24.02.2012	Prof Xavier Martin (Tilburg University) “From invention breadth to impact: Effects of experience and mindfulness”

16.03.2012	Dr. J.C. van den Bergh VU University Directive Deficiencies: How Resource Constraints Direct Opportunity Identification in SMEs

21.03.2012	Haxhi Ilir (University of Amsterdam)* “The cross-national diversity of codes: An actor-centered institutional perspective” Host(s): Déborah Philippe

27.03.2012	Prof. Paula Stephan (Georgia Tech University) “Present and future of the American academic research system and potential problems: Lessons for Switzerland?” (Abstract)

28.03.2012	Prof. Paula Stephan (Georgia Tech University) “The Contribution of the foreign Born and the GlobSci project”

02.04.2012	MTEI Student seminar : “Crime and security in global supply chains – constructing defensible research design” Discussant: Erik Swars PhD Student presenting: Toni Mannisto

04.04.2012	Katarina Sikavica (Ludwig Maximilians University)* Host(s): Jean-Philippe Bonardi “Beyond External Constraints on Expropriation of Minority Investors: How Large Shareholders’ Power and Preferences Affect Firm Valuation”

16.04.2012	MTEI Student seminar : An Empirical Investigation of the Bullwhip Effect–Are Demand Variations Amplified Upstream in the Supply Chain? PhD Student presenting: Olov Isaksson Discussant: Prof. Marc Gruber

17.04.2012	Paul A. David (Stanford University) “Science, technology and climate policy: an introduction”

26.04.2012	Gerry Mcnamara (Michigan State University)* Host(s): Xavier Castañer

30.04.2012	Paul A. David (Stanford University) “Design of optimal technological programs for climate stabilization”

02.05.2012	Valeria Cavotta (HEC Lausanne)* 12:00-13:00, UNIL Seminar – salle Extranef 110

07.05.2012	Prof. Nandini Lahiri (University of North Carolina)

07.05.2012	MTEI Student seminar : “Population Sampling in Dynamic Health Care Policy” PhD Student presenting: Lauren Cipriano (Stanford University) Discusssant: Chehrazi Naveed

09.05.2012	Andrea Fosfuri (University of Madrid)* Host(s): Jean-Philippe Bonardi

14.05.2012	Prof. Erwin Danneels (Univ. of Central Florida) (with A. Vestal) “Firm inventions in geographic clusters: The moderating role of innovative concentration”

16.05.2012	Maurizio Zollo (Bocconi University, Milano)* “Learning evolutionary change and the integration of sustainability in business models” Host(s): Xavier Castañer

21.05.2012	Prof Özalp Özer (Univ. of Texas, Dallas) “Forecast Information Sharing: The Role of Contracts, Behaviors and Timing” Paper: “Mechanism Design for Capacity Planning under Dynamic Evolutions of Asymmetric Demand Forecasts “ Paper: “Trust in Forecast Information Sharing”

25.05.2012	Prof. Howard Aldrich (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) 12:00-13:30, Odyssea VIP room 4.03 “What Did Stinchcombe Really Mean? Why Emerging Organizations Die Young “

30.05.2012	Prof. Jeff York (University of Colorado) “We do what we are: Entrepreneurship as the the expression of values and identity”

31.05.2012	Todd Zenger (Washington University, St-Louis)* Host(s): Xavier Castañer

04.06.2012	MTEI Student seminar : Service Innovation in KIBS PhD Student presenting: Andreas von Vangerow

18.06.2012	MTEI Student seminar : “Dynamic Portfolio Management with Product Life Cycle Considerations” PhD Student presenting: Ariel Zeballos

22.06.2012	Prof. Xin (Eva) Yao (University of Colorado, Boulder) “Venture Capitalists’ individual-Opportunity Nexus ans Investment Performance”

25.06.2012	Prof. Sotaro Shibayama (University of Tokyo) Academic Entrepreneurship and Exchange of Scientific Resources: Material Transfer in Life and Materials Sciences in Japanese Universities

28.06.2012	Prof. Haiyang Li (Rice University) Bridging Different Worlds or Stuck in the Middle? The Role of Internationalization in the Product Innovation of Emerging Market Firms

29.06.2012	Prof. Yan (Anthea) Zhang (Rice University) FDI Spillovers over time in an Emerging Market:The Role of Barriers to Imitation

02.07.2012	Prof. Frank Rothaermel (College of Management, Georgia Institute of Technology) Does Desperation lead to Opportunity? Star Scientists and the Speed of Investment in Radical New Technologies

16.07.2012	MTEI Student seminar : TBA PhD Student presenting: Naveed Chebrazi

26.07.2012	Prof. Karin Hoisl, Ludwig Maximilians-Universität München “Gains from Inventor Mobility Revisited – Do Exogenous Moves Matter?”

03.09.2012	Prof. Samir Mahroum, INSEAD “Towards a functional framework for measuring national innovation efficacy”

14.09.2012	Prof. Marc Gruber, EPFL & Prof. John Dencker, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign “Workshop: Entrepreneurship and the Unemployed”

01.10.2012	Prof. Stefano Brusoni, ETHZ “Attention control capabilities and decision making performance: An fMRI study of ambidexterity in experienced decision-makers“

15.10.2012	Prof. Dirk Martignoni, University of Zurich & Prof. Hart Posen, University of Michigan “Rubik’s Dilemma: Partial Knowledge and the Efficacy of Learning”

22.10.2012	Prof. Thomas Astebro, HEC Paris “Business Partners, Financing, and the Commercialization of Inventions”

29.10.2012	MTEI Student Seminar: “Education Diversity and Knowledge Transfers via Inter-Firm Labor Mobility” PhD Student presenting: Marianna Marino, PhD Student

06.11.2012	Forum Suisse de Logistique “Customer service and supply chain”

07.11.2012	Prof. Jacques Mairesse, Maastricht University “Upstream Product Regulations, ICT, R&D and Productivity”

09.11.2012	1st European Maritime Transport Regulation Forum “Ports: How to Regulate Logistics Interfaces?”

12.11.2012	Prof. Paul D. Reynolds, George Washington University “Entrepreneurship in Developing Economies: The Bottom Billions and Business Creation”

23.11.2012	Infrastructure Day 2012 “Verkehrsverlagerung… quo vadis?”

03.12.2012	Prof. Dimo Dimov, University of Bath “The road more travelled: The entrepreneurial ecology of college textbooks and the Internet”

10.12.2012	Research Day in Management of Technology by EDMT PhD students and EDMT Faculty

2011

25.01.2011	Prof Wilfred Dolfsma, University of Groningen “Innovation Failure: Which Capabilities Prevent It?”

18.02.2011	Prof. Richa Agrawal, IIT Madras (CV of Prof Richa Agrawal): Marketing and Innovation: Opportunities for Entrepreneurs

04.03.2011	Prof Joachim Henkel, Technische Universität München: “And the Winner Is – Acquired. Entrepreneurship as a Contest with Acquisition as the Prize”

11.04.2011	Prof. Harry Bowen, Queens University of Charlotte: Testing Moderating Hypotheses in Nonlinear Models

14.04.2011	Prof. Alfonso Gambardella, Bocconi University: General Technological Capabilities, Product Market Fragmentation and Markets for Technology: Evidence from the Software Security Industry

13.05.2011	Prof. Scott Shane, Case Western Reserve University: Genetics of Entrepreneurship

18.05.2011	Prof. David Mowery, Berkeley University: Learning from one another? International policy “emulation” and university-industry technology transfer

27.05.2011	Prof. Holger Ernst, WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management: Sales, Marketing and R&D Cooperation across New Product Development Stages: Implications for success

30.05.2011	Prof. Giovanni Valentini, Bocconi University: Cool Again! Spin-Outs and the Rejuvenation of Old-Timers

31.05.2011	Prof. Gautam Ahuja, University of Michigan: “Explaining Influence Rents :the Case for an Institutions-Based View of Strategy”

03.10.2011	Prof. Kristian Sund (Middlesex University) “Do Accurate Perceptions Matter?”

19.10.2011	Prof. Massimo Colombo & Prof. Cristina Rossi Lamastra (Politecnico Di Milano) How do young entrepreneurial ventures in high-tech industries react to the global crisis? A dynamic capabilities perspective
21.10.2011	Prof. Kelly Shaver (College of Charleston) “Mind The Gap”: Connecting Individual Resources to Firm Performance
02.11.2011	Dr. Jeffrey Petty (UNIL) * “Maneuvering the Odds: Venture Capital Decision Making as a Dynamic and Stochastic Knapsack Problem.”
22.11.2011	Prof. Dietmar Grichnik (University of St Gallen) “Entrepreneurial bootstrapping: Deliberate action or forced reaction?”

23.11.2011	Dr. Estefania Amer Maistrau (University of Geneva) * “CSR performance & democracy: the market matters”

07.12.2011	Prof. Tomi Laamanen (Helsinky University) * “The Effects of Market Efficiency and Transparency on the Performance of Cross-Border Acquisitions”

09.12.2011	Prof. Scott Shane (Case Western Reserve University) “Which Inventors do Technology Licensing Offers Favor for Start-ups?”

16.12.2011	Prof. Koen Heimeriks (Erasmus University Rotterdam RSM) “Concurrent learning: how firms build multiple corporate development capabilities in parallel”

* Seminars organized by UNIL-HEC

2022

14.1.2022: Alessandro Lucini Paioni (University of Bath, Great Britain)

“Organizational drivers of innovation: The role of workforce agility”

28.1.2022: Louise Lindbjerg (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark)

“Mind the gaps: How organization design shapes the sourcing of inventions”

11.2.2022: Giacomo Marchesini (IESE Business School, Spain)

“Trials and terminations: Learning from competitors’ R&D failures”

25.2.2022: Pelin Atakan (Ege University, Turkey)

“Learning by (virtually) doing: Experimentation and belief updating in smallholder agriculture”

11.3.2022: Enrico Bergamini (University of Turin, Italy)

“Economic complexity and the green economy”

25.3.2022: Jason Deegan (University of Stavanger, Norway)

“How status of research papers affects the way they are read and cited”

8.4.2022: Lorenzo Palladini (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)

“High risk, low return (and vice versa): the effect of product innovation on firm performance in a transition economy”

22.4.2022: Apoorva Gupta (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany)

“R&D tax credit and innovation: Evidence from private firms in India”.

6.5.2022: Federico Bignone (Université de Bordeaux, France)

“The effect of high-tech clusters on the productivity of top inventors”

20.5.2022: Stefano Benigni (Imperial College, United Kingdom)

“Organizational learning processes and outcomes: Major findings and future research directions”

3.6.2022: João Maria Jorge (Lund University, Sweden)

“Does the timing of integrating new skills affect start-up growth?”

17.6.2022: Li Liu (Universidad Carlos III, Spain)

“The effect of patent protection on inventor mobility”

14.10.2022: George Abi Younes (Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)

“Categories, attention, and the impact of inventions”

28.10.2022: Damiano Morando (Imperial College Business School, United Kingdom)

“Digital technologies, innovation, and skills: Emerging trajectories and challenges”

11.11.2022: Egbert Amoncio (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany)

“Knowledge diversity and team creativity: How hobbyists beat professional designers in creating novel board games”

25.11.2022: Alberto Corsini (Université Côte d’Azur, France)

“Academic entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurial advisors and their advisees’ outcomes”

9.12.2022: Filippo Grillo (TU Delft, Netherlands)

“Complementary components and returns from coordination within ecosystems via standard setting”

2021

1.10.2021: Matthias van den Heuvel, EPFL

“Policy Uncertainty and Innovation: Evidence from Initial Public Offering Interventions in China” (REGIS Seminar – Reading Group for Innovation Studies)

15.10.2021: Julia Mazzei, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy

“How Antitrust Enforcement Can Spur Innovation: Bell Labs and the 1956 Consent Decree” (REGIS Seminar)

29.10.2021: Benjamin Buettner, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

“Inventing the Endless Frontier: The Effects of the World War II Research Effort on Post-war Innovation” (REGIS Seminar)

12.11.2021: Antoine Collin, KU Leuven, Belgium

“Start-up subsidies: Does the policy instrument matter (REGIS Seminar)

26.11.2021: Bastian Krieger, University of Luxembourg and Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung, Germany)

“Public procurement of innovation: Evidence from a German legislative reform” (REGIS Seminar)

10.12.2021: Cecilia Maronero, Université de Bordeaux

“Roadblock to innovation: The role of patent litigation in corporate R&D” (REGIS Seminar)

The EPFL Virtual Innovation Seminar series (EVIS) took place in 2020-21 and were a bi-weekly virtual seminar series focusing on Science, Technology and Innovation topics studied through the lens of Economics, Entrepreneurship, Strategy and Finance. Speakers were mainly graduate students and early-career researchers.

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