Fall 2025 Seminar Series

09/10 John McKeon, BU, Questrom Should I Stay or Should I Go: Startup Repositioning Following Rival Acquisitions
09/17 James Bessen, BU, TPRI Is R&D Rivalry Slowing the Growth of Productive Firms?
09/24 Justine Boudou, Harvard Business School Not All That Glitters is Gold:

Firm Hiring in the Market for Knowledge Workers
10/01 Matt Marx, Cornell/NBER Connecting Fundamental Science to Commercial Innovation: A Public Dataset of Patent-Paper Pairs
10/08 Anne Marie Knott, Washington University, St. Louis The Impact of Federal R&D Contracts on Firms’ R&D Productivity
10/15 Georgios Petropoulos, USC Marshall School of Business and CESifo, Los Angeles, CA, Assessing the Impact of Algorithmic Quantity Regulations on Sharing Platforms: Evidence from Airbnb in Paris
10/22 John M. Golden, The University of Texas at Austin School of Law Nonobviousness and Analogous Arts
10/29 Sojun Park, MIT Innovation, Imitation, and Political Cleavages in International Trade and Patent Protection
11/05 Olivia Zhao, Harvard Business School Policy Incentives for Pharmaceutical Innovation
11/12 Jun Oh, Purdue University Interlocking Directors and Technology Foreclosure of Peer Firms: Evidence from Licensing Agreements
11/19 Remziye Zaim, University of Toronto Artificial Intelligence Software as a Medical Device: Regulatory Approvals and Post-Deployment Evaluation Frameworks in North America and Europe
12/03 Yifan Tian, Bocconi University Job Displacement and Worker Productivity: Evidence from Mass Layoffs in the United States
12/10 Fabian Gaessler, Pompeu Fabra University Limits to the Division of Innovative Labor: Evidence from the Pharmaceutical Industry