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75th Anniversary Academic Symposium Program Details

This two-day event will celebrate our rich intellectual history, groundbreaking research, and visionary future. This milestone event will bring together current and former faculty, distinguished Ph.D. alumni, industry leaders, and students to reflect on our legacy and envision the future of business research and practice. 

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Day 1

Friday, March 21

2- 2:30 p.m.: Check In and Welcome Reception

2:30 - 3:30 p.m.: Welcome Remarks and Keynote Addresses on Intellectual Impact of Tepper School of Business

  • Dean Isabelle Bajeux-Besnainou, Richard P. Simmons Professor of Finance, Tepper School of Business

  • Farnam Jahanian, President, Henry L. Hillman President’s Chair, Carnegie Mellon University

 

  • Duane Seppi, Richard C. Green Professor of Financial Economics, Senior Associate Dean of Faculty, Tepper School of Business

  • Linda Argote, Thomas Lord Professor of Organizational Behavior and Theory, Tepper School of Business

  • John Hooker, T. Jerome Holleran Professor of Business Ethics and Social Responsibility; University Professor of Operations Research, Emeritus, Tepper School of Business

  • Holger Sieg, Professor of Economics, University of Pennsylvania (MSIA 1994, Ph.D. 1996)

3:30 - 3:40 p.m.: Break

3:40 - 4:35 p.m.: Plenary Session 1: Celebrating the Accomplishments of Nobel Laureate Thomas Sargent

  • Isabelle Bajeux-Besnainou, Dean, Richard P. Simmons Professor of Finance, Tepper School of Business

  • Ariel Zetlin-Jones, Associate Professor of Economics, Tepper School of Business
  • Thomas Sargent, William R. Berkley Professor of Economics and Business, Stern School of Business, New York University
4:35 - 4:45 p.m.: Break

4:45 - 6:15 p.m.: Breakout Session A 

The Long Arm of OM: Healthcare, Advertising, Quantum
Classroom 2110

Session Chair - Alan Scheller-Wolf

Presenters:

  • Suresh Sethi,
    Naveen Jindal School of Management, The University of Texas at Dallas (MSIA 1971, Ph.D. 1972)
  • Jayashankar Swaminathan,
    Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (MSIA 1994, Ph.D. 1996)
  • Sridhar Tayur,
    Tepper School of Business

Artificial Intelligence at the Intersection of Workforce Innovation, Governance, and Consumer Engagement
Classroom 2111

Session Chair - Param Vir Singh

Presenters:

  • Anindya Ghose,
    Stern School of Business, New York University (MSIA 2002, Ph.D. 2004)
  • Rahul Telang,
    Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University (MSIA 1999, Ph.D. 2002)
  • Shunyuan Zhang,
    Harvard University (MSIA 2016, Ph.D. 2019)

Advancing Industry and Government through Academic Research
Classroom 2112

Session Chair - Alan Montgomery

Presenters:

  • Charles Evans,
    The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (MSIA 1985, Ph.D. 1989, H/CMU 2024)
  • M.S. Krishnan,
    Ross Business School, University of Michigan, (MSIA 1993, Ph.D. 1996)
  • Rajiv Lal,
    Harvard Business School, Harvard University (MSIA 1981, Ph.D. 1983)

Day 2

Saturday, March 22

8:30 - 9 a.m.: Registration and light breakfast

9 - 10:15 a.m.: Plenary Session 2: Disrupt or Be Disrupted: Business Education in the Age of AI

  • Introductions by James H.Garrett Jr., Provost and Chief Academic Officer, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Moderator: Andrew Jack, Global Education Editor, Financial Times

Panelists: 

  • Dean Isabelle Bajeux-Besnainou, Tepper School of Business

  • Dean Srikant Datar, Harvard Business School, Harvard University (Former Carnegie Mellon University Faculty)

  • Dean Madhav Rajan, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago (MSIA 1987, MSIA 1989, Ph.D. 1990)

  • Dean Francisco Veloso, INSEAD*

10:15 - 10:45 a.m.: Tepper School Building Tour

10:45am - 12:15 p.m.: Breakout Session B 

The Facets of Operations Research
Classroom 2110

Session Chair - R. Ravi

Presenters:

  • Gerard Comuéjols,
    Tepper School of Business (CMU Emeritus Faculty)
  • Pinar Keskinocak,
    H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Tech (MSIA 1994, Ph.D. 1997)
  • Mohit Singh,
    H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Tech (MSIA 2005, Ph.D. 2008)

Accounting: Information, Entropy & LLMs
Classroom 2111

Session Chair - Pierre Liang

Presenters:

  • Edwige Cheynel,
    Olin Business School, Washington University (MSIA 2006, Ph.D. 2009)
  • Chandra Kanodia,
    Carlson School of Management,University of Minnesota (MSIA 1978, Ph.D. 1978)
  • Gaoqing Zhang,
    Tepper School of Business (MSIA 2011, Ph.D. 2014) 

Consumer Choices and Business Decision-Making
Classroom 2112

Session Chair - Kannan Srinivasan

Presenters:

  • Eric Johnson, 

    Columbia Business School,  Columbia University (MS/DC 1977,  Ph.D./DC 1981)*

  • Richard Staelin,  

    Fuqua School of Business, Duke University*

  • Ting Zhu, 

    Mitch Daniels School of Business,  Purdue University (MSIA 2002,  Ph.D. 2006)

12:15 - 1:30 p.m.: Lunch

  • Dean Isabelle Bajeux-Besnainou, Tepper School of Business

1:30 - 3:00 p.m.: Breakout Session C

Studies in Financial Economics
Classroom 2110

Session Chair - Chester Spatt

Presenters:

Frontiers of Economic Research 
Classroom 2111

Session Chair - Dennis Epple 

Presenters: 

Advice Seeking, Communication Codes and Transactive Memory Systems 
Classroom 2112

Session Chair - Linda Argote 

Presenters:

*Former CMU faculty