Arif Ansari has been selected to be the conference chair for the Digital Transformation Kuwait Conference, held this December.

Jacob Bien and Gourab Mukherjee’s paper on teaching with generative artificial intelligence (AI) titled, “Generative AI for Data Science 101: Coding Without Learning To Code,” was accepted for publication in the Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education.

Zijun Gao has a paper accepted for publication in Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) titled, “Images Speak Louder than Words: Understanding and Mitigating Bias in Vision-Language Model from a Causal Mediation Perspective.”

Angela Zhou has a paper accepted for publication in Transactions of Machine Learning Research with a “Featured Certification.” The paper is titled, “Multi-CATE: Multi-Accurate Conditional Average Treatment Effect Estimation Robust to Unknown Covariate Shifts.” She was also an invited speaker at the recent 7th Learning Theory Alliance Mentorship workshop.

Bobby Carnes had a paper published in Review of Accounting Studies titled, “Riding the Merger Wave: The Gatekeeping Role of Auditors.”

Smrity Randhawa has been appointed to USC’s University Committee on Curriculum (UCOC) Social Sciences Subcommittee (SSS).

Clive Lennox had a paper published in Contemporary Accounting Research titled, “PCAOB Inspection Deficiencies and Future Financial Reporting Quality: Do the Types of Deficiencies Matter?”

Nathanael Fast was named an inaugural member of the EY.ai Global AI Advisory Council, providing strategic guidance to EY professionals on rapidly evolving AI technologies.

Kristin Diehl and Maansi Dalmia, PhD have a paper accepted for publication in the Journal of the Association for Consumer Research (Volume 10, Issue 3) titled, “Privacy is Important, but When is it Thought About?”

Dinesh Puranam had a paper published in the Journal of Marketing Research titled, “EXPRESS: Are We Worse off after Policy Repeals? Evidence from Two Green Policies.”

Gerard Tellis had a paper published in the Journal of Management Information Systems (Volume 41, Issue 2) titled, “Cash or Non-Cash? Exploring Ideators Incentive Preferences in Crowdsourcing Contests.” He also has three papers accepted for publication: “Ideators’ Success in Innovation Tournaments: Participation, Productivity, or Pressure?” forthcoming in the International Journal of Research in Marketing; “What Is (and Isn’t) a Product Recall?” forthcoming in the Journal of Public Policy and Marketing; and “Product Recall: A Synthesis of Marketing Findings and Research Directions” forthcoming in Marketing Letters.

Sha Yang was an invited speaker at McGill University’s Institute of Marketing (MIM), giving a seminar on “’Driving’ the Platform Growth: The Impact of Out-of-Home Advertising.”