Dedicated to creating and sharing knowledge

Tippie College of Business is dedicated to sharing our research with the world. Our multiple research forum series brings together esteemed scholars, faculty, and researchers from across the campus and across the globe to share their work in all of our disciplines.

Join us to discuss some of the most important topics in business research.

Upcoming research forums

Clarence Tow Seminar Series in Economics: Michele Belot
Monday, March 2, 2026 10:45am to 12:00pm
Pappajohn Business Building

Michele Belot is the Frances Perkins Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and a Professor of Economics at Cornell University.

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ISE:5000 GRADUATE SEMINAR -- DR.MENGXIAO ZHANG
Thursday, March 5, 2026 3:30pm to 4:20pm
Seamans Center

Join us in welcoming Mengxiao Zhang, Professor of Business Analytics at Tippie College of Business, to the ISE graduate seminar. Dr. Zhang will present his seminar titled"New Challenges for (Contextual) Multi-Armed Bandits: Fairness Objectives, Indirect Feedback, and Beyond" on Thursday, March 5th, from 3:30 - 4:20 p.m. in 4030 SC.

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Colloquium - When 'Good' Systems Fail: What Employment Technologies Miss Under Real-World Constraints
Friday, March 6, 2026 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Schaeffer Hall
We welcome Tawanna Dillahunt, PhD, from the University of Michigan School of Information, who will speak to the design and deployment of employment technologies, considering real-world constraints rather than idealized conditions.
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Data Centers in Iowa: Perspectives from Community, Government, and Research
Monday, March 9, 2026 12:30pm to 2:00pm
Boyd Law Building
This panel will offer a high-level overview of how community, government, and industry considerations shape data center development in Iowa and the broader Midwest.
Clarence Tow Seminar in Economics: Brantley Callaway
Wednesday, March 11, 2026 10:45am to 12:00pm
Pappajohn Business Building

Brantly Callaway is the P. George Benson Professor and an Associate Professor in Economics at the University of Georgia.

Clarence Tow Seminar in Economics: Ted O'Donoghue
Monday, March 23, 2026 10:45am to 12:00pm
Pappajohn Business Building

Ted O'Donoghue is the Zubrow Professor of Economics at Cornell University.

Past research forums

Business Analytics Guest Lecture: Robert Bray
Friday, October 28, 2022 11:00am to 12:00pm
Pappajohn Business Building

Professor Bray's talk is titled "Logarithmic Regret in Multisecretary and Online Linear Programming Problems with Continuous Valuations." In this talk, he studies a general revenue management problem in which n customers arrive sequentially over n periods, and you must dynamically decide which to satisfy. He studies this system's regret, which is the additional utility you could get if you didn't have to make decisions on the fly. He provides a new proof that this regret is bounded in n when...

Business Analytics Guest Lecture: Galit Shmueli
Wednesday, October 19, 2022 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Pappajohn Business Building

Galit Shmueli is a Tsing Hua Distinguished Professor at the Institute of Service Science, College of Technology Management, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. View her bio and the abstract for her talk, "Leveraging covariates in randomized experiments guided by causal diagram."

Business Analytics Guest Lecture: PhD Practice Talk
Friday, October 7, 2022 11:00am to 12:00pm
Pappajohn Business Building
Business Analytics Guest Lecture: Miguel Lejeune - Drone-Network Design Queueing MINLP Model for Time-Sensitive Medical Events
Friday, September 23, 2022 11:00am to 12:00pm
Pappajohn Business Building

Miguel Lejeune is a Full Professor of Decision Sciences and of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the George Washington University. Speaker bio and abstract.

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Thought Leaders Seminar in Finance: Luigi Zingales
Friday, September 23, 2022 11:00am to 12:00pm
Virtual

Luigi Zingales is the Robert C. McCormack Distinguished Service Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance and the Charles M. Harper Faculty Fellow at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. The topic of his presentation will be "Taming Corporate Power with Corporate Democracy." Register to attend.

Business Analytics Guest Lecture: Jingyuan Yang - Acqui-hiring or Acqui-quitting: Data-Driven Post-M&A Turnover Prediction via a Dual-fit Model
Friday, September 16, 2022 11:00am to 12:00pm
Pappajohn Business Building

Jingyuan Yang is an assistant professor of Information Systems and Operations Management at the School of Business, George Mason University. Speaker bio and abstract.

Behavioral Research Roundtable Series

Hosted by the Tippie Research Office, the Behavioral Research Roundtable Series offers a space for faculty, visiting scholars, and graduate students to share and discuss behavioral research in a collaborative, low-pressure setting.

Business Analytics Guest Lecturer Seminar Series

Join us to hear from high-profile business analytics researchers.

Clarence Tow Lectures in Economics

Scholars from both the private and public sectors present to economics faculty and students roughly once a week during the academic year.

Clarence Tow Lectures in Finance

Top finance researchers present at Tippie to faculty, PhD students, and researchers from the University of Iowa.

Research Methods Roundtable Series

Presented by the Tippie Research Office in collaboration with the Departments of Business Analytics, Economics, and Finance, this series highlights research methods.