Faculty & Research
Seminar
Research Areas
MAR
27
- March 23, 2026
- Management
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Time
4:30 PM – 5:50 PM
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Venue
90402 International Hall
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Speaker
Professor Andy Hafenbrack (University of Washington)
This seminar introduces a novel “on-the-spot” approach to mindfulness, contrasting with the dominant view that mindfulness requires long-term, daily practice over extended periods. Study 1 shows that people commonly believe mindfulness is a sustained trait developed through consistent effort. Challe…
MAR
25
- March 19, 2026
- Finance
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Time
4:30 PM – 5:50 PM
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Venue
90402 International Hall
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Speaker
Professor Joosung Lee (College of Economics, Sungkyunkwan University)
This seminar explores how reputation badges affect seller pricing in digital marketplaces. Combining a search-theoretic model with causal evidence from Airbnb, the study shows that badge visibility can intensify competition among sellers, leading to price discounting by those with badges. The findin…
MAR
18
- March 11, 2026
- Finance
Generative AI and Regulatory Oversight: Evidence from SEC Comment Letters
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Time
4:30 PM – 5:50 PM
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Venue
90403 International Hall
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Speaker
Professor Minjae Koo (Business School, Korea University)
This paper examines the use of generative AI at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), focusing on comment letters as a key tool in SEC oversight. Using the AI-detection software GPTZero, it finds that letters with higher AI usage tend to be less extensive. This pattern holds across panel reg…
MAR
12
- March 5, 2026
- Marketing
Research into the Creator Economy
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Time
4:30 PM – 5:50 PM
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Venue
90403
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Speaker
Professor Andreas Lanz (University of Basel)
The creator economy is a booming industry with around 200 million people considering themselves creators; they follow their passion and share with their online community on a variety of user-generated content networks such as Instagram and SoundCloud their latest creations – from audio to pictures t…
MAR
11
- March 5, 2026
- Accounting
Market-Based Managerial Incentives and Real Effects of Auditor Rotation
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Time
4:30 PM – 5:50 PM
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Venue
SKKU International Hall, Room 90403
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Speaker
Professor Dae-Hee Yoon (Yonsei University)
Auditor rotation has long been discussed as a tool to solidify auditor independence, though it comes with the offsetting factor that it undermines auditor learning effects coming from client experience. In this paper, we consider a model that introduces new considerations in auditor assignment. In t…
FEB
11
- February 3, 2026
- Management
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Time
4:30 PM – 5:50 PM
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Venue
SKKU International Hall, Room 90403
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Speaker
Professor Yuna Cho (SKKU Business School)
With much research recognizing psychological safety as a pivotal force for organizational success, scholars have identified ways to help organizations establish it. However, it remains less understood why some employees perceive lower psychological safety and how to enhance it for them. In this rese…
JAN
15
- January 8, 2026
- Marketing
Not So Timely: Screen-On Push Notifications and User Engagement
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Time
4:30 PM – 5:50 PM
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Venue
90403
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Speaker
Professor Zachary Zhong (University of Toronto)
We study how micro-level timing of push notifications affects user engagement. Industry practice assumes that delivering messages at screen-on moments—when users are actively using devices—maximizes effectiveness for mobile applications. Using large-scale data from a leading push notification platfo…
DEC
3
- November 26, 2025
- Accounting
Unearthing the Lower-Tier Suppliers: Evidence from Conflict Minerals Disclosure
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Time
4:30 PM – 5:50 PM
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Venue
90403, International Hall
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Speaker
Prof. Jin Kyung Choi (Department of Accountancy, City University of Hong Kong)
We examine whether mandatory supply chain disclosure enhances firms’ ability to manage supply chain risk. We exploit the U.S. conflict minerals disclosure (CMD) rule, which requires public firms to trace tin, tantalum, tungsten, and gold through all supplier tiers and publicly report sourcing from c…
NOV
26
- November 20, 2025
- Economics
Fair Division of a Random Prize with Unequal Entitlements
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Time
4:30 PM – 5:50 PM
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Venue
90403, International Hall
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Speaker
Prof. Wonki Cho (Korea University)
We study the problem of dividing a prize with random payoffs among a group of agents. The agents may have varying levels of entitlements, or shares, to the prize and only the means of their payoff distributions are known. In the design of allocation rules, our central objective is to guarantee, in e…
NOV
19
- November 19, 2025
- Management
Span of Control as a Strategic Lever for Firm Growth
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Time
4:30 PM – 5:50 PM
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Venue
90403, International Hall
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Speaker
Prof. Jaeho Choi (HKUST)
The study develops a computational model that formalizes how the span of control dynamically shapes firm growth through trade-offs inherent in organizational information processing. When cognitive constraints on attention and evaluation interact, an intermediate span of control emerges as optimal, a…