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 Lecture Series in Finance: Tom Meling
Friday, August 28, 2026 10:35am to 12:00pm
Chemistry Building

Tom Meling is an Assistant Professor in Finance at the Ohio State University.

Clarence Tow Lecture Series in Economics: Simon Lee
Monday, August 31, 2026 10:45am to 12:00pm
Pappajohn Business Building

Simon Lee is a Professor of Economics at Columbia University.

Clarence Tow Lecture Series in Finance: Jun Chen
Friday, September 4, 2026 10:35am to 12:00pm
Pappajohn Business Building

Jun Chen is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Illinois, Chicago.

Clarence Tow Lecture Series in Economics: Guillaume Frechette
Thursday, September 10, 2026 10:45am to 12:00pm
Pomerantz Center

Guillaume Frechette is a Professor of Economics from New York University.

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CS Colloquium - "Easy, Hard, and Impossible: Phase Transitions in Computation"
Friday, September 11, 2026 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Schaeffer Hall
Ida Cordelia Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor, Dr. Cristopher Moore, shows how to classify key problems in computing, data science, and statistical inference.
Clarence Tow Lecture Series in Economics: Theo Durandard
Monday, September 14, 2026 10:45am to 12:00pm
Pappajohn Business Building

Theo Durandard is an Assistant Professor in Economics from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Past research forums

Wall Street Prep Financial Modeling Seminar
Sunday, January 22, 2023 9:00am to 5:00pm
Pappajohn Business Building

The Hawkinson Institute will host Wall Street Prep's Financial & Valuation Modeling seminar at the University of Iowa on the weekend of Jan. 21-22, 2023.

The seminars will be led by a former investment banker with applied expertise in financial and valuation modeling methodologies.

The course is valuable for seniors, juniors, and advanced sophomores interested in investment banking, private equity, equity research and related fields. Any Iowa student is welcome to participate. (Enrollment in...

Wall Street Prep Financial Modeling Seminar
Saturday, January 21, 2023 9:00am to 5:00pm
Pappajohn Business Building

The Hawkinson Institute will host Wall Street Prep's Financial & Valuation Modeling seminar at the University of Iowa on the weekend of Jan. 21-22, 2023.

The seminars will be led by a former investment banker with applied expertise in financial and valuation modeling methodologies.

The course is valuable for seniors, juniors, and advanced sophomores interested in investment banking, private equity, equity research and related fields. Any Iowa student is welcome to participate. (Enrollment in...

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Thought Leaders Seminar in Finance: Jeremy Stein
Friday, December 2, 2022 11:00am to 12:00pm
Virtual

Jeremy C. Stein is the Moise Y. Safra Professor of Economics at Harvard University, where he teaches courses in the undergraduate and PhD programs, and serves on the board of directors of the Harvard Management Company. Register to attend.

Business Analytics Guest Lecture: Annabelle Feng
Wednesday, November 30, 2022 10:00am to 11:00am
Pappajohn Business Building

Annabelle Feng is Professor of Management and John and Donna Krenicki Chair in Operations Management at Purdue University. View her bio and the abstract for her talk, "Operational Data Analytics for Newsvendors."

Business Analytics Guest Lecture: Abhay Mishra
Friday, November 4, 2022 11:00am to 12:00pm
Pappajohn Business Building

Abhay Mishra is Associate Professor and Kingland Faculty Fellow in Business Analytics at the Debbie and Jerry Ivy College of Business at Iowa State University.

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...

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.