SICS - Summer Institute in Competitive Strategy
Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
N470
Sponsored by
Institute for Business Innovation (IBI), University of California Berkeley
Co-Chairs:
Preyas Desai (Duke University)
Kanishka Misra (University of California, San Diego)
Program
Monday, June 19, 2023
6:30-8:30pm
Reception, Faculty Club
Tuesday, June 20
9:00-10:20am
"Effective Adaptive Exploration of Prices and Promotions in Choice-Based Demand Models"
Lalit Jain (University of Washington), Zhaoqui Li (University of Washington), Erfan Loghmani (University of Washington), Blake Mason (Amazon), and Hema Yoganarasimhan (University of Washington)
Discussant: Federico Rossi (Purdue University)
10:40-12:00pm
"Recommending for a Multi-sided Marketplace: A Multi-Objective Hierarchical Approach"
Yuyan Wang (Google Brain), Long Tao (Uber Technologies), and Xian Xing Zhang (Uber Technologies)
Discussant: Nikhil Malik (University of Southern California)
1:30-2:50pm
"Joint Sequential Production with Participation and Effort Choice"
David Godes (University of Maryland) and Niladri Syam (University of Missouri)
Discussant: Zijun (June) Shi (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
3:10-4:30pm
"Information Design of Online Platforms"
T. Tony Ke (Chinese University of Hong Kong), Song Lin (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) and Michelle Y. Lu (China Europe International Business School)
Discussant: Dmitri Kuksov (University of Texas at Dallas)
4:50-6:20pm
Panel: A New Currency: Attention and Influencers
Andrey Simonov (Columbia University)
Ron Berman (University of Pennsylvania)
Mengze Shi (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Navdeep Sahni (Stanford University)
Wednesday, June 21
9:00-10:20am
Simon Kim (University of Texas at Dallas), TI Tongil Kim (University of Texas at Dallas), and Tae Jung Yoon (KAIST)
Discussant: Soheil Ghili (Yale University)
10:40-12:00pm
"Consumer Search and Product Returns"
Kinshuk Jerath (Columbia University) and Qitian Ren (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen)
Discussant: Jeffrey Shulman (University of Washington)
1:30-2:50pm
"Welfare Impacts of Subscriptions for Digital Goods: The Case of Video Games"
Carol Hengheng Lu (Amazon) and Jacob LaRiviere (University of Washington)
Discussant: Tomomichi Amano (Harvard University)
3:10-4:30pm
"Pro-Social Change for the Most Challenging: Marketing and Testing Harm Reduction for Conservation"
Kristina Brecko (University of Rochester) and Wesley R. Hartmann (Stanford University)
Discussant: Robert Sanders (University of California, San Diego)
4:50-6:20pm
Panel: Social Implications: Balancing Social Fairness and Profitability
Vladimir Pavlov (University College London)
Lena Song (Columbia University)
Mert Demirer (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Ahmed Khwaja (University of Cambridge)
Thursday, June 22
9:00-10:20am
"'The Value of Professional Ties in B2B Markets"
Navid Mojir (Harvard University) and Sriya Anbil (Federal Reserve Board)
Discussant: Raphael Thomadsen (Washington University, St. Louis)
10:40-12:00pm
"Online Advertising, Data Sharing, and Consumer Control"
Justin Johnson (Cornell University), Thomas Jungbauer (Cornell University), and Marcel Preuss (Cornell University)
Discussant: Amin Sayedi (University of Washington)
1:30-2:50pm
"The Minimax-Regret Decision Framework for Online A/B Tests"
Khai X. Chiong (University of Texas at Dallas) and Joonhwi Joo (Unievrsity of Texas at Dallas)
Discussant: Giovanni Compiani (University of Chicago)
3:10-4:30pm
"Estimating Willingness to Pay in Subscription Business Models"
Cheng Chou (University of Leicester) and Vineet Kumar (Yale University)
Discussant: Anita Rao (Georgetown University)
7:00pm
Conference Dinner
Faculty Club
Friday, June 23
9:00-10:20am
Ryuya Ko (University of Texas at Austin), Kosuke Uetake (Yale University), Kohei Yata (University of Wisconsin), and Ryosuke Okada (ZOZO)
Discussant: Ali Goli (University of Washington)
10:40-12:00pm
"Influencers: The Power of Comments"
Cristina Nistor (Chapman University) and Matthew Selove (Chapman University)
Discussant: Nanda Kumar (University of Texas at Dallas)
1:30-2:50pm
Justin T. Huang (University of Michigan), Rupali Kaul (Stanford University), and Sridhar Narayanan (Stanford University)
Discussant: Alex Burnap (Yale University)
3:10-4:30pm
Michelle Y. Lu, (China Europe International Business School)
Discussant: Sridhar Moorthy (University of Toronto)
5:00pm
Drinks at the Faculty Club
Saturday, June 24
From 10:00am
Wine tasting tour in Napa Valley
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