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Marshall Faculty Publications, Awards, and Honors: December 2025/January 2026
Data Sciences and Operations
Andrew Daw had a paper accepted by Queueing System titled, “Optimal Call-In Policies under Travel-Induced Risk: Application to Hybrid Hospitalization.”
Zijun Gao had a paper accepted by the Annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS) titled, “Estimation of Optimal Causal Bounds via Covariate-Assisted Optimal Transport.”
Grace Gu got a paper accepted by Management Science titled, “Disintermediation Governance and Complementor Innovation: An Empirical Look at Amazon.com.”
Charlie Hannigan was invited to speak at Google’s exclusive CFO forum hosted by Anat Ashkenazi, the CFO of Google, and Fareed Zakaria, the CNN journalist.
Mladen Kolar got a paper accepted by the Journal of the American Statistical Association titled, “Trans-Glasso: A Transfer Learning Approach to Precision Matrix Estimation.”
Mladen Kolar received invitations to serve as an associate editor (AE) for Journal of the American Statistical Association and IEEE TPAMI.
Mladen Kolar had a paper accepted by the Annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS) titled, “Provable Accelerated Bayesian Optimization with Knowledge Transfer.”
Bowen Lou had a paper published in Information Systems Research titled “Artificial Intelligence, CEO Turnover, and Exploration Orientation in Firm Innovation.”
Georgios Petropoulos had a paper published by the HICSS 2026 conference proceedings titled, “Assessing the Impact of Algorithmic Quantity Regulations on Sharing Platforms: Evidence from Airbnb in Paris.”
Matteo Sesia had a paper accepted by the Journal of the American Statistical Association titled, “Searching for Local Associations While Controlling the False Discovery Rate.”
Xin Tong had a paper accepted by American Economics Journal: Microeconomics titled, “Degree-Weighted Social Learning.”
Xin Tong had a paper accepted by the Journal of the American Statistical Association titled, “A Burden Shared is a Burden Halved: A Fairness-Adjusted Approach to Classification.”
Waverly Wei had a paper accepted by the Journal of the American Statistical Association titled, “Covariate-Adjusted Response-Adaptive Design with Delayed Outcomes.”
Waverly Wei had a paper accepted by the Annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS) titled, “Adaptive A/B Testing under Nonstationary Dynamics using State-Space Models.”
Waverly Wei had a paper accepted by npj Digital Medicine titled, “Enhanced Language Models for Predicting and Understanding HIV Care Disengagement.”
Finance and Business Economics
Richard Green won the 2025 award for Best Paper in Real Estate Economics for his paper, “Is Land-use Deregulation Enough To Deliver Housing? The Case of Institutional Frictions in India.”
Gerard Hoberg had a paper published in the Journal of Financial Economics titled, “Intellectual Property Protection Lost and Competition: An Examination Using Large Language Models.”
Gerard Hoberg received the Brattle Prize Distinguished Paper award for his paper titled, “Scale, Scope and Competition: The 21st Century Firm.”
Kristy Jansen was made a research affiliate in the Asset Pricing and Banking and Corporate Finance programs of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR).
Mete Kilic and Cary Frydman had a paper accepted in the Journal of Finance titled, “Beyond Firm Characteristics: Forecaster Heterogeneity Explains a Large Portion of Over and Underreaction.”
Arthur Korteweg had a paper accepted by the Journal of Financial Economics titled, “Private Equity for Pension Plans? Evaluating Private Equity Performance from an Investor’s Perspective.”
Quinn Maingi had a paper published in the Journal of Financial Economics titled, “Regional Banks, Aggregate Effects.”
Quinn Maingi had a paper published in the Journal of Finance titled, “A Quantity Based Approach to Constructing Climate Risk Hedge Portfolios.”
Andrii Parkhomenko had a paper published in the Review of Economic Studies titled, “Spatial Implications of Telecommuting.”
Ben Zhang had a paper published in the Journal of Finance titled, “Generative AI and Firm Values.”
Ben Zhang had a paper published in the Review of Financial Studies titled, “The Cost of Regulatory Compliance in the United States.”
Ben Zhang, Gerard Hoberg, and AJ Chen had a paper published in the Journal of Accounting Research titled, “Institutional Participation in Information Production and Anomaly Returns.”
Leventhal School of Accounting
Tracie Majors, along with co-authors, won a 2025 grant with the Foundation for Auditing Research related to Audit Innovation.
Daniel O’Leary was named a fellow of the Association for Information Systems (AIS).
Management and Organization
Nan Jia had a paper accepted at Management Science titled, “Spreading the Style: Firm Leaders’ Early Life Experiences and Employees’ Behavior and Performance.”
Marketing
Nofar Duani had a paper published in the Journal of Marketing titled, “The Liveness Lift: Viewing Live Streams Creates Connection and Enhances Engagement in Amateur Music Performances.”
Yanyan Li and Sha Yang had a paper published in Marketing Science titled, “A Representative Sampling Method for Peer Encouragement Designs in Network Experiments.”
Giovanni Luca Cascio Rizzo was awarded TechSIG Lazaridis Best Paper Award Runner-Up by the American Association of Marketing (AMA) for his paper, “How Sensory Language Shapes Influencer’s Impact.”
Joseph Nunes had a paper accepted at the Journal of Consumer Research titled, “Starting Positive: The Impact of Self-Presentation Concerns on Consumer Reviews.”
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