Research Events

Run Like a Girl: An Afternoon with Catherine McKenna

•   Wednesday, January 21, 2026
•   3:30 PM EST
•   Goodes Commons, Smith School of Business

Through a dynamic fireside chat, Catherine McKenna will share insights from her global advocacy work and her experiences championing climate action and women’s leadership.

Marketing Seminar with Masakazu Ishihara

•   Friday, December 5, 2025
•   10:30 AM EST
•   Goodes 302

Speaker: Masakazu Ishihara, NYU

Analytics Seminar with Aydin Alptekinoglu

•   Friday, November 28, 2025
•   1:00 PM EST
•   Goodes 100

Speaker: Aydin Alptekinoglu, Penn State

Accounting Seminar with Tisha King

•   Friday, November 28, 2025
•   11:00 AM EST
•   Goodes 302

Speaker: Tisha King, Waterloo

Analytics Seminar with Jonathan Helm

•   Friday, November 21, 2025
•   1:00 PM EST
•   Goodes 100

Speaker: Jonathan Helm, Indiana State

Accounting Seminar with Dushyant Vyas

•   Friday, November 21, 2025
•   11:00 AM EST
•   Goodes 100

Speaker: Dushyant Vyas, University of Toronto

Finance Seminar with Ting Xu

•   Friday, November 21, 2025
•   10:00 AM EST
•   Goodes 102

Speaker: Ting Xu, University of Toronto

Digital Transformation Seminar with Raghava Rao

•   Friday, November 21, 2025
•   9:00 AM EST
•   Goodes 100

Speaker: Raghava Rao, Copenhagen Business School

Organizational Behaviour Seminar with Anthony Klotz

•   Thursday, November 20, 2025
•   10:30 AM EST
•   Goodes 100

Speaker: Anthony Klotz, University College London

Strategy Seminar with Majid Majzoubi

•   Friday, November 14, 2025
•   11:00 AM EST
•   Goodes 302

Speaker: Majid Majzoubi, York

Finance Seminar with Ziwei Zhao

•   Thursday, November 13, 2025
•   10:00 AM EST
•   Goodes 100

Speaker: Ziwei Zhao, Lausanne

Smith Research Gala

•   Friday, November 7, 2025
•   1:30 PM EST
•   Malting Tower, Tett Centre

Accounting Seminar with Scott Asay

•   Friday, November 7, 2025
•   11:00 AM EST
•   Goodes 302

Speaker: Scott Asay, Iowa

Strategy Seminar with Forrest Briscoe

•   Friday, October 24, 2025
•   10:00 AM EDT
•   Goodes 102

Speaker: Forrest Brisco, Cornell

Analytics Seminar with Stefan Nickel

•   Friday, October 17, 2025
•   1:00 PM EDT
•   Goodes 302

Speaker: Stefan Nickel, KIT

Analytics Seminar with Kevin Shang

•   Friday, October 10, 2025
•   1:00 PM EDT
•   Goodes 302

Speaker: Kevin Shang, Duke

Marketing Seminar with Ela Veresiu

•   Friday, October 3, 2025
•   10:00 AM EDT
•   Goodes 100

Speaker: Ela Veresiu, York

Digital Transformation with Gabriele Piccoli

•   Friday, October 3, 2025
•   9:00 AM EDT
•   Goodes 302

Speaker: Gabriele Piccoli, Louisiana State

Marketing Seminar with Suzanne Shu

•   Friday, September 26, 2025
•   10:00 AM EDT
•   Goodes 100

Speaker: Suzanne Shu, Cornell

Faculty Writing Retreat and Lunch

•   Friday, September 12, 2025
•   11:00 AM EDT
•   Goodes 302

Digital Transformation Seminar with Eivor Oborn

•   Friday, September 12, 2025
•   10:00 AM EDT
•   Goodes 100

Speaker: Eivor Oborn, Warwick Business School

Research Excellence Awards

•   Tuesday, September 2, 2025
•   1:30 PM EDT
•   Recital Hall, Isabel Bader Centre

Celebrate the outstanding achievements of faculty and PhD students.

Disasters, Vulnerable Groups and Responsibilisation: Narratives, Social Dramas, and Social Policy

•   Wednesday, August 27, 2025
•   11:00 AM EDT

Speaker: Mustafa Özbilgin, Brunel University of London

Disasters are "total social facts," reflecting intertwined social, natural, and technological impacts shaped by dominant narratives that influence policy and public perception. Strategic ignorance by powerful groups often disadvantages vulnerable populations. The hierarchical nature of scientific knowledge marginalizes alternative views, as seen in debates like COVID-19 transmission and earthquake framing. Inclusive, evidence-based policies must address these inequalities, restore science’s authority, and tackle corruption and financialization in disaster management. Supporting individuals’ well-being post-disaster requires governance that is fair, collaborative, and fosters co-ownership among diverse stakeholders to integrate human, natural, and technological considerations.

“F” That!: Dealing with Fear and Fatigue Surrounding D.E.I. in the Classroom

•   Wednesday, August 27, 2025
•   9:00 AM EDT

Speaker: Lynn Bowes-Sperry, California State University East Bay

Given the current politically divisive climate in many countries, it shouldn't be surprising that many instructors and students are experiencing fear and/or fatigue with regard to the topic of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the classroom. We hear comments from instructors such as “I teach introductory accounting - I don't know how to incorporate DEI into my course” and “I’m worried about saying the wrong thing or a conversation getting out of control during class.” We also hear comments from students such as “We already know this” and “We hear about this all the time.” My goal for this session is to decrease the fear and fatigue associated with DEI in the classroom while increasing the potential for fun.

Corporate Finance Theory Workshop

•   Saturday, June 14, 2025
•   10:00 AM EDT
•   Goodes 102

The Corporate Finance Theory workshop brings together theorists working in corporate finance, broadly defined, from leading Canadian universities. The workshop involves several presentations of early-stage work so that presenters can benefit from comments and suggestions from the audience.

Finance Seminar with Si Cheng

•   Friday, May 30, 2025
•   10:00 AM EDT
•   Goodes 304

Speaker: Si Cheng, University of Toronto

This paper applies machine learning to impute ESG ratings. Unlike traditional methods, most machine-learning-imputed ratings effectively predict future ESG incidents when ratings are unobserved. While no single method is superior, a composite measure integrating all machine learning approaches provides the most robust estimates. We find a negative greenium of −1.70% annually across all stocks, with a stronger elect among uncovered stocks. Using MSCI ESG coverage expansion as an exogenous shock, we find that ESG coverage reduces newly covered firms' cost of capital by 0.47% annually. Our findings highlight the value of imputed ESG ratings in investment decisions and capital allocation.

The Inclusion Tax: The Price of the Ticket in White Spaces

•   Monday, February 12, 2024
•   10:00 AM EST

Speaker: Tsedale Melaku, CUNY Baruch

The highly publicized killing of Black people in the spring of 2020 sparked a national and global social movement to address racial violence. This led to heightened national discourse about the deeply entrenched nature of systemic racism in American institutions, prompting organizations to make public statements supporting racial justice. While an essential first step in addressing systemic inequities within the workplace, these statements are primarily performative and do little to combat systemic racist practices and policies within their ranks. For instance, research has shown that women of color, and particularly Black women, experience daily racial and gendered aggressions that negatively impact their career trajectories. Through in-depth semi-structured interviews of twenty Black women lawyers, this article demonstrates how systemic racism is deeply entrenched in white spaces, preventing a genuine and effective path to diversity, equity, and full inclusion. Moreover, it theorizes how emotional, cognitive, financial, and relational labors amount to an inclusion tax levied against Black women professionals in white spaces.

Shared Inequities: An Alternative Framework for Racial Justice in the Workplace

•   Tuesday, February 7, 2023
•   9:00 AM EST

Speaker: Cedric Dawkins, York University

Racial injustice places a burden on an ethically sensitive society and poses questions as to how we bear it. Whereas juxtaposing an ideal of perfectly equal opportunity with an invariably flawed distributive alternative is destined to fail, the actual choice is between two imperfect options, the current inequitable practices and imperfect attempts to redress those inequities. While society confronts this enduring racial inequity, I argue that it is morally fitting that all would share in its burdens. Through the concept of shared inequity, the paper discounts unqualified notions of merit and win–win convergences and holds forth the supposition that fairly apportioning the burdens of a fraught racial past (and present) is an idea whose time has come.