Online Research Seminar on Digital Businesses

Hosted by the Digital Business Institute at the Questrom School of Business, this virtual seminar series is focused on various challenges relevant to digital businesses, particularly platforms and data-enabled businesses. We hope to attract a wide variety of methodologies (theoretical and empirical) from many fields: information systems, strategy, law, marketing, economics, etc. PhD students are welcome and all scholars are welcome to present early-stage work. The Online Research Seminar on Digital Businesses meets on the third Monday of every month at 8pm EST (5pm PST).

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Seminar guidelines

The speaker will present for 40 mins, 5 mins for the discussant (no slides), and we will have 15 mins for Q&A.

Each seminar will be moderated, and participants can post their questions to the chat room on Zoom. Questions will usually be channeled through the moderator. Participants (other than the speaker and moderator) should leave their mic off unless asked by the moderator to speak.

To propose a talk, please contact one of the co-chairs of the Scientific Committee below:
Andrei Hagiu, Boston University Questrom School of Business
Daniel Sokol, University of Southern California Gould School of Law  
Mariia Petryk, George Mason University, Donald G. Costello College of Business

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Upcoming Talks –

 Balancing Efficiency and Consumer Experience: An Investigation of Gig vs. Traditional Customer Support

 Monday, 17 November 2025, from 8 pm to 9 pm EST (5 – 6pm PST)

 Speaker: Qiaowen Guo, Washington University in St. Louis, John M. Olin Business School
Discussant: Z. Justin Ren, Boston University, Questrom School of Business
Moderator: Hemant Bhargava, UC Davis Graduate School of Management

Scientific Committee –
Co-chairs: 
Andrei Hagiu, Boston University Questrom School of Business
Daniel Sokol, University of Southern California Gould School of Law  
Mariia Petryk, George Mason University, Donald G. Costello College of Business


Members:
Hemant Bhargava, UC Davis Graduate School of Management
Kevin Boudreau, D’Amore McKim School of Business
Yao Cui, Cornell Johnson Graduate School of Management
Grace Gu, University of Southern California Marshall School of Business
Jacqueline Lane, Harvard Business School
Tesary Lin, Boston University Questrom School of Business
Meng Liu, Washington University in Saint Louis Olin Business School
Daniela Saban, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Marshall Van Alstyne, Boston University Questrom School of Business
Chengsi Wang, Monash University
Julian Wright, National University of Singapore
Andy Wu, Harvard Business School
DJ Wu, Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business
Bobby Zhou, University of Maryland Smith School of Business
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