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

"Does Advertising Matter to Emergency Department Patients? The Effect of Advertising on Hospital Choice, Travel Distances, and Mortality Rates"

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

"When to Target Customers? Retention Management using Constrained Dynamic Off-Policy Policy Learning"

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

"Novelty in Content Creation: Experimental Results Using Image Recognition on a Large Social Network"

Justin T. Huang (University of Michigan), Rupali Kaul (Stanford University), and Sridhar Narayanan (Stanford University)

 

Discussant: Alex Burnap (Yale University)


3:10-4:30pm

"Content Marketing: Why Do Firms Handicap Themselves with Brand-Neutral in a Competitive Environment?"

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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