February 14th - Yannis Bakos and Panos Ipeirotis
"Blockchain and Bitcoin: A Technical but Not Too Technical Introduction (Part 1)"
February 21st - No meeting (schoolwide faculty meeting)
February 28th - Michael Posner
"The Role of Internet Platforms in Mitigating Harmful Content"
March 7th - No meeting
March 14th - SPRING BREAK
March 21st - No meeting (faculty meeting)
March 28th - Maxime Cohen
"Frustration-Based Promotions: Field Experiments in Ride-Sharing"
April 4th - Hanna Halaburda
"Bitcoin and Blockchain: What we know and what are still open questions"
April 11th - Foster Provost and Carlos Fernandez
"Causal Classification: Outcome Prediction vs. Treatment Effects"
April 18th - Sean Taylor (Facebook)
"Patterns of social interaction in online public discussions: A hypergraph representation"
April 25th - Nicholas Garcia and Natalia Levina
"Computational Social Science meets Grounded Theory Method"
May 2nd - Yannis Bakos and Panos Ipeirotis
"Blockchain and Bitcoin: A Technical but Not Too Technical Introduction (Part 2)"
May 9th - Matti Rossi
"Engaging Practitioners in IS Research Through Action Design Research"
September 20 - Gedas Adomavicius (University of Minnesota)
Understanding the Effects of Recommender Systems on Consumer Views and Behaviors
September 27 - Semester Kick-Off Meeting
October 18 - Sean Taylor (Facebook)
The Role of Sports in Social Network Formation
November 8 - Jutta Steiner (Ethcore, Provenance)
The promise of blockchain: Where we are, what we need, and how to get there
December 6 - Konstantin Bauman and Alex Tuzhilin
Leveraging Customer Reviews for Recommendation Purposes
May 3 - Lior Zalmanson
New Perspectives on User Engagement
October 6 - Kick-Off Meeting
November 24 - Panos Ipeirotis and Arun Sundararajan
Bitcoin and the Blockchain Economy: A Primer
December 1 - John Horton
A Theory of Technology Entrepreneurship
December 8 - Daniel Schlagwein
The Learning of Crowdsourcing: A Longitudinal Study of LEGO
March 3 - John Horton
"A Self-Serving Experiment in Expert Crowdsourcing"
March 24 - Samuel Fraiberger and Arun Sundararajan
"Personality, Homophily and Embeddedness"
April 14 - Daizhuo Chen, Samuel Fraiberger, Rob Moakler, and Foster Provost
April 21 - Feng Zhu (Harvard Business School)
"Competing with Complementors: An Empirical Look at Amazon.com"
May 12 - Xuan Ye
"Why Do High-Tech Firms Offer Perks at Work"
October 14 - Antonios Proestakis
"Peer-Active: Peer Incentives for Raising Physical Activity in Children"
October 28 - Konstantin Bauman and Alexander Tuzhilin
"Recommending Learning Materials to the Students by Identifying their Knowledge Gaps"
November 4 - Gretta Corporaal
"(De-)Constructing Boundary Work: A Process Analysis of Dispersed Top-Management Collaboration"
November 11 - Samuel Fraiberger
"Peer-to-Peer Rental Markets in a Sharing Economy"
November 18 - Evan Sadler
"The Diffusion of Rival Information"
November 25 - Marios Kokkodis
"Inefficiencies in Online Labor Markets"
December 9 - Veeresh Thummadi
April 8 - Discussion led by Natalia Levina, Foster Provost, and Arun Sundararajan
"How Unifying Themes Emerge in Groups of Independent Researchers: A Discussion"
April 15 - John Horton
"Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Minimum Wage"
May 6 - No TUILES