PhD “Brown Bag” Series

PhD “Brown Bag” Series Presentations

The PhD “Brown Bag” presentations are organized by the PhD Program Office and they offer an opportunity for our doctoral students and faculty to exchange ideas on current issues and developments in their area of specialization. Recent topics and discussions have included:

" When the Doctor Speaks: How the Source of Information Impacts Consumers' Perceptions of Side Effect Information" - Jesse Catlin
"'Online-to-Store' Channel on Demand Allocation, Online Pricing and Profitability" - James Cao with Professors Rick So and Shuya Yin
"Career Concerns for Knowledge Workers" - Frank MacCrory
"Asset Transfer in IT Outsourcing Contracts: Why do Client Firms Limit Their Own Options?" - David Zeng with Professors Vijay Gurbaxani and Shivendu Shivendu
"Energy at Work: An Investigation of Relational Energy in Organizations" - Dana McDaniel
"Search under Earnings Pressure: Evidence from the U.S. M&A Market" - Yu Zhang
“Connecting with Consumers via Emotional Ad Appeals: The Influence of Motivation, Purity of Emotion, and Ad Layout” – Loraine Lau-Gesk and Joan Meyers-Levy

“Subprime Lending and the Housing Bubble: Tail Wags Dog?” – Major Coleman IV, Michael LaCour-Little, Kerry Vandell
“Strategic Customer Behavior, Commitment, and Supply Chain Performance” – Fuqiang Zhang
“Shaping Up For Performance Impacts of Information Technology: The Role of Corporate Governance” – Joanna Ho
“Preference Functions for Decisions with Geographically- Varying Attributes” – L. Robin Keller
“The Team Negotiation Challenge: An Inductive Study of Negotiating Teams Rationally” – Kristin Behfar
“Consumer’s Search Behavior and Their Propensity to Buy: A Study of Internet Users on Popular Hi-Tech Website” – Ofer Mintz, Imran Currim, Ivan Jeliazkov (Assistant Professor of Economics, UC Irvine)
“Founding the Future: The Evolution of Teams from Founding to IPO” – Christine Beckman
“The Performance of Emerging Hedge Fund Managers” - Philippe Jorion and Raj Aggarwal
“Insurance Mandates and Mammography” – Christopher Carpenter and Marianne Bitler (Associate Professor of Economics, UC Irvine)

Our scheduled Ph.D. "Brown Bag" presentations for the 2011-2012 Academic Year are as follows:

(The Ph.D. Program generally sends out an announcement of the speaker's title and abstract a couple of weeks prior to the scheduled presentation. If you are interested in receiving the notice and/or to RSVP, please contact nnegrete@uci.edu.)

All sessions scheduled in SB 116 during the lunch hour (12-12:50pm)

* October 27, 2011-- Speaker: Ofer Mintz (Marketing PhD student)

* November 3, 2011-- Speaker: Sujung Choi (Finance PhD student)

* December 1, 2011-- Speaker: Kenji Klein (Organization & Management PhD student)

* January 26, 2012-- Speaker: Tim Haigh (Accounting PhD student)

* February 9, 2012-- Speaker: Jesse Catlin (Marketing PhD student)

* February 23, 2012-- Speaker: Arsenio Staer (Finance PhD student)

* March 8, 2012-- Speaker: Sreya Kolay (Assistant Professor, Marketing). This session linked to the Pro Seminar

* April 5, 2012-- Speaker: Ryan Choi (Marketing PhD student)

* April 19, 2012-- Speaker: Jim Leonhardt (Marketing PhD student)

* May 3, 2012-- Speaker: TBA

* May 17, 2012-- Speaker: TBA

* May 31, 2012-- Speaker: TBA