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Spring 2026
Faculty Organizers: Emma Wang & Martin Wiernsperger
Administrative Support: acsupport@cornell.edu
*All presentations are held on Fridays from 11:45 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. unless otherwise noted*
DATE: January 23, 2026 – CANCELLED
SPEAKER: Shane Dikolli, University of Virginia
PRESENTATION: TBD
ROOM: Zoom Only
DATE: January 30, 2026
SPEAKER: Jake Zureich, Lehigh University
PRESENTATION: TBD
ROOM: B10 Sage Hall
DATE: February 20, 2026 – CANCELLED
SPEAKER: Jan Bouwens, University of Amsterdam
PRESENTATION: TBD
ROOM: B10 Sage Hall
DATE: February 27, 2026
SPEAKER: Cassie Mongold, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
PRESENTATION: TBD
ROOM: B10 Sage Hall
DATE: March 6, 2026
SPEAKER: Shiva Rajgopal, Columbia University
PRESENTATION: TBD
ROOM: Zoom Only
DATE: March 13, 2026
SPEAKER: Joe Pacelli, Harvard Business School
PRESENTATION: TBD
ROOM: B10 Sage Hall
DATE: April 10, 2026
SPEAKER: Aneesh Raghunandan, Yale University
PRESENTATION: TBD
ROOM: B10 Sage Hall
DATE: April 17, 2026
SPEAKER: Jonas Heese, Harvard Business School
PRESENTATION: TBD
ROOM: Zoom Only
DATE: April 24, 2026
SPEAKER: Michael Williamson Jr., University of Illinois
PRESENTATION: TBD
ROOM: Zoom Only
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Fall 2025
Faculty Organizers: Emma Wang & Martin Wiernsperger
Administrative Support: acsupport@cornell.edu
*All presentations are held on Fridays from 11:45 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. unless otherwise noted*
DATE: September 19, 2025
SPEAKER: Eva Labro, University of North Carolina
PRESENTATION: “The Voluntary Production and Use of Management Accounting Information: Evidence from U.S. Private Firms”
ROOM: B11 Sage Hall
DATE: September 26, 2025 (Invite Only)
SPEAKER: Sanjeev Bhojraj, Nick Guest, Emma Wang (Cornell University), Elisha Yu (Baruch College)
PRESENTATION: TBD
ROOM: 333 Sage Hall
DATE: October 3, 2025 (Invite Only)
SPEAKER: Yao Lu, Cornell University Faculty
PRESENTATION: “Loan Loss Predictability from Macroeconomic Factors”
ROOM: 141 Sage Hall
DATE: October 10, 2025
SPEAKER: Rahul Vashishtha, Duke University
PRESENTATION: “Fair Value Transparency and Bank Fragility in the SVB Episode”
ROOM: B11 Sage Hall
DATE: October 17, 2025
SPEAKER: Willie Choi, University of Wisconsin
PRESENTATION: “TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING: WHEN DOES GREATER PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT FREQUENCY LEAD TO LESS LEARNING?”
ROOM: Zoom Only
DATE: October 31, 2025 (Invite Only)
SPEAKER: Yao Lu, Cornell University Faculty
PRESENTATION: “Imperfect Expectations in Loan Loss Forecasts”
ROOM: 333 Sage Hall
DATE: November 21, 2025
SPEAKER: Robert Sternberg, Cornell University Department of Psychology
PRESENTATION: The speaker’s talk will be about critical thinking in the age of AI. The talk is related to the paper found clicking on the following link: Paper
ROOM: B06 Sage Hall
DATE: November 21, 2025 – Will be rescheduled to AY 26-27
SPEAKER: Urooj Khan, University of Texas Austin
PRESENTATION: TBD
ROOM: B11 Sage Hall
DATE: December 5, 2025, from 1:30 – 2:45 PM
SPEAKER: Valerie Reyna, Cornell University Department of Psychology
PRESENTATION: “Explaining and Evaluating Human and Al Choices, with Clinical Illustrations”
ROOM: B10 Sage Hall