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 Economics: Tridib Sharma
Monday, October 5, 2026 10:45am to 12:00pm
Pappajohn Business Building

Tridib Sharma is a Professor of Economics at ITAM.

Clarence Tow Lecture Series in Economics: Guido Kuersteiner
Monday, October 12, 2026 10:45am to 12:00pm
Pappajohn Business Building

Guido Kuersteiner is a Professor of Economics from the University of Maryland.

Clarence Tow Lecture Series in Finance: Seth Pruitt
Friday, October 16, 2026 10:35am to 12:00pm
Pomerantz Center

Seth Pruitt is an Associate Professor in Finance at Arizona State University.

Clarence Tow Lecture Series in Economics: Joseph Mullins
Monday, October 19, 2026 10:45am to 12:00pm
Pappajohn Business Building

Joseph Mullins is an Assistant Professor in Economics from the University of Minnesota.

Clarence Tow Lecture Series in Economics: Elliot Lipnowski
Monday, October 26, 2026 10:45am to 12:00pm
Pappajohn Business Building

Elliot Lipnowski is an Associate Professor in Economics from Yale University.

Clarence Tow Lecture Series in Finance: Riley League
Friday, October 30, 2026 10:35am to 12:00pm
Pomerantz Center

Riley League is an Assistant Professor in Finance at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Past research forums

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...

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.

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.