April 3, 2026

“Geopolitical Tensions & the Audit Workforce: Evidence from Immigrant Auditors”

Joe Schroeder, Ph.D., Indiana University

The Rawls College of Business welcomed Distinguished Scholar, Joe Schroeder, Ph.D. A PwC Faculty Fellow and Professor at the Kelley School of Business of Indiana University, Dr. Schroeder also serves as the Chairperson of the Graduate Accounting Program. His expertise spans auditing, financial accounting standards, financial disclosures, and corporate governance. Schroeder’s scholarly contributions have been published in high-caliber journals such as the Review of Accounting Studies and The Accounting Review.

The scholarly presentation examined whether geopolitical tensions between the United States and foreign countries affect immigrant auditors’ labor market outcomes and audit quality.

Feb. 27, 2026

“The Systems Edge”

Tima Bansal, Ph.D., Ivey Business School

Rawls Distinguished Scholar, Dr. Tima Bansal is a Professor of Sustainability & Strategy at the Ivey Business School and a leading scholar in systems thinking, innovation, and sustainability. She leads Innovation North, a research-practice initiative that seeks innovative solutions to complex organizational challenges. She is the founder of the Network for Business Sustainability and Ivey’s Centre for Building Sustainable Value, and currently serves as Chair of the Board of the United Nations’ Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME).

Dr. Bansal discussed her current book project on “Systems Edge”—the ability to notice and act on the most important near-term signals while staying anchored to long-term objectives, particularly in environments where prediction is unreliable and control is illusory. She also shared insights on qualitative research, publishing in top journals, and editorial advice.

Feb. 13, 2026

“IT Mindfulness and Interruptions”

Jason Bennett Thatcher, Ph.D., University of Colorado Boulder

Distinguished Scholar, Jason Bennett Thatcher, Ph.D., is the Tandean Rustandy Esteemed Professor at the University of Colorado-Boulder. He is also a Full Professor of Management Science at the Alliance Manchester Business School of the University of Manchester and an Honorary Professor at the University of Nottingham. A globally recognized scholar, Professor Thatcher specializes in individual decision-making, strategic alignment, and workforce issues related to the effective use of information technology. His recent projects focus on cybersecurity, social media, and digital upper echelons. He currently serves as Senior Editor for MIS Quarterly and has received over 20,000 citations.

As described during the presentation, a surprising result of interruption prevention tactics is that mindfulness training can backfire, leading to a lower level of mindfulness in today's interruption-rich world.

Jan. 23, 2026

“Can We Compare Missed Deadlines and Overpacked Suitcases to Overdue Bills?”

Rebecca Hamilton, Ph.D., Georgetown University

Distinguished Scholar Rebecca W. Hamilton, Ph.D., is the Michael G. and Robin Psaros Chair in Business Administration and Professor of Marketing at the McDonough School of Business of Georgetown University. A leader in her field, Professor Hamilton is the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Marketing Research. Hamilton’s research examines the effects of contextual factors, including the social environment, level of resources, stage of decision making and presentation format during the process of consumer decision making.

Drawing on Dr. Hamilton’s latest research, this presentation explored how consumers respond to different types of resource scarcity, highlighting key distinctions between chronic and situational scarcity and across stages of the consumer journey.

Nov. 7, 2025

“Theorizing from Qualitative Data”

Ann Langley, Ph.D., HEC Montréal

Distinguished Scholar Ann Langley, Ph.D., is an Emerita Professor from the Department of Management at Hautes Etudes Commerciales de Montréal (HEC Montréal.) She is also the Distinguished Research Environment Professor of the Warwick Business School and Deputy Editor for qualitative research of the Academy of Management Journal. Her research focuses on strategic processes and practices, with a particular emphasis on organizational change, decision making, leadership and innovation in pluralistic settings.

Professor Langley explored various approaches to conducting mixed-methods research, emphasizing the importance of having one dominant method while she shared her experience combining qualitative analysis and simulation models. The discussion concluded with insights on coupling data and theory, the challenges of top-down coding, and strategies for managing qualitative research projects over time.

Oct. 3, 2025

“Hear from a UTD-24 Journal Editor: When Success Leads to Failure”

David Griffith, Ph.D., Texas A&M’s Mays Business School

Professor David Griffith, Ph.D. holds the Hallie Vanderhider Chair in Business in the Marketing Department at Texas A&M’s Mays Business School and serves as the associate research director of the Center for International Business Studies. He is also area editor for Global Marketing at the Journal of International Business Studies and associate editor for the Journal of Marketing, both elite publications.

During this presentation, a paradox every leader should know was explored: strong financial performance can quietly set the stage for decline. To put it another way, when firms enjoy high profits, they often shrink their new product portfolios out of overconfidence, potentially reducing the company’s future value. Dr. Griffith explained an observed counter-intuitive cycle: strong financial performance can actually set the stage for decline, developing into the success paradox.

Sept. 12, 2025

“Decision-making in Complex and Uncertain Environments”

Cleotilde Gonzalez, Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University

Professor Cleotilde Gonzalez, Ph.D., from the Department of Social and Decision Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University, is the founding director of the Dynamic Decision-Making Laboratory and serves as the research co-director of the AI Institute for Societal Decision Making. She is also affiliated with the CyLab Security and Privacy Institute, the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, the Software and Societal Systems Department, and the CNBC Center for Neural Basis of Cognition at Carnegie Mellon.

During the presentation, Dr. Hamilton featured key aspects relevant to individuals, organizations, and societies:

• Human AI Complementarity: how people and AI can work together effectively.
• Cognitive processes in action: humans make decisions in dynamic, uncertain contexts, as shown in different models reviewed.
• Hybrid dynamics: studying configurations where AI plays a role in collaborative tasks.

April 4, 2025

“Neuroscience in Business”

Anne Farrell, Ph.D., Miami University

Distinguished Scholar Prof. Anne Farrell, Ph.D., CGMA, and AICPA, is the Chair and PricewaterhouseCoopers Professor of the Department of Accountancy in the Farmer School of Business at Miami University. She is a member of the American Accounting Association. She is also a member of the Canadian Academic Accounting Association, the European Accounting Association, the Society for Neuroeconomics, and the Ohio Miami Valley Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience.

Dr. Farrell’s talk covered the latest insights into the relatively new field of neuroaccounting. She discussed broadly her findings on how neuroscience technology can help accounting scholars understand how decision-makers physically and cognitively process and reach accounting information and controls.

April 3, 2025

“Textual Analysis and Large Language Models (LLM’s) Biases”

Dexin Zhou, Ph.D., Baruch College

Distinguished Scholar Dexin Zhou, Ph.D., is an associate professor of the Bert W. Wasserman Department of Economics and Finance in the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College. Zhou is an expert in investments and behavioral finance. His research focuses on behavioral finance and investment. His recent work investigates how social networks and social media influence investors and other market participants.

Zhou’s presentation focused on empirical methodology, making way to the development of textual analyses literature in accounting and finance, and the key methodologies widely used. In addition, he referred to LLMs and how to use them in research, including presenting his own research that examines the biases of LLMs in stock return predictions and identifying trading strategies on an investor social media platform.