Next Seminar: Elynn Chen (NYU) "Transfer Q-Learning" If you are affiliated with UPenn and are interested in our seminars, please contact stat-seminars@wharton.upenn.edu to join our seminar list-serve so that you can receive our seminar announcements.
Next Seminar: Rohini Pande (Yale) "Phones, Permissions, and Pushback: Experimental Evidence on Women's Digital Autonomy in Rural India" Applied Economics Seminar Summary: The Applied Economics Seminar is organized by Ben Sprung-Keyser, Susanna Berkouwer & Jessie Handbury The Applied Economics Seminars are held Wednesdays from 12:00 p.m. – 1:20 p.m., with additional seminars on other days when…
Next Seminar: Joint with ASSET Seminar Misha Belkin (UCSD) "From kernel machines to the linear representation hypothesis for monitoring and steering LLMs" FOLDS Seminar Summary: What: This seminar features leading experts in optimization, learning, and data science. Topics span algorithms, complexity, modeling, applications, and mathematical underpinnings. Why: Foundational advances in these fields…
Next Seminar: Janet Gao (Georgetown University) Coordinators: Vincent Glode and Pari Sastry Spring 2026 Wednesdays 12:00 to 1:30 PM SH-DH 211
Next Seminar: Wendy Salkin (Stanford University) "Not Quite Agency Relationships" To RSVP to an event, please contact Tamara English at englisht@wharton.upenn.edu. In this email, please include the title of the event that you will be attending, your name and affiliation. Hosted by the Wharton Legal Studies & Business Ethics Department.
Next Seminar Adam Smith (University College London) "A Quasi-Bayes Approach to Nonparametric Demand Estimation with Economic Constraints" Marketing Department Colloquia Summary: Location: 7th Floor JMHH Time: 12:00 Noon – 1:20 PM (unless otherwise noted) For Colloquia scheduling information and suggestions for additional speakers: Faculty Coordinator: Gidi Nave (Fall 2025) Faculty…
Next Seminar Lauri Valtteri Kytomaa (Cornell University) "The Roles of Borrower Private Information and Mortgage Relief Design in Foreclosure Prevention" Real Estate Seminar Summary URE Seminars provide a forum for Wharton faculty and graduate students as well as outside speakers to present research of interest to the Wharton community. Seminars with…
(Rescheduled from March 27) Join Kartik Hosanagar, Faculty Co-Director of Wharton Human-AI Research for the next episode of our AI Horizons webinar series. Creativity isn’t a gift reserved for a few. It’s a disciplined capability that leaders can build and scale especially with the use of AI. The leader’s…
Next Seminar: Book talk and signing event Atinuke Adediran (Fordham University) "Disclosureland: How Corporate Words Constrain Racial Progress" To RSVP to an event, please contact Tamara English at englisht@wharton.upenn.edu. In this email, please include the title of the event that you will be attending, your name and affiliation. Hosted by…
Next Seminar: CANCELLED Business Economics and Public Policy Development Workshop Summary: The Development Seminar is organized by Mariaflavia Harari. The Development Seminars are held on Fridays (unless noted otherwise.) The Seminar will meet in person at Dinan Hall B10 (Formerly Vance Hall). To sign up for the seminar announcements, please send…
Next Seminar: CANCELLED Business Economics and Public Policy Development Workshop Summary: The Development Seminar is organized by Mariaflavia Harari. The Development Seminars are held on Fridays (unless noted otherwise.) The Seminar will meet in person at Dinan Hall B10 (Formerly Vance Hall). To sign up for the seminar announcements, please send…
Next Seminar: Stefan Link (Dartmouth) "The Great Depression as a Global Crisis, 1926-1936: A Centennial Perspective" All meetings on Fridays from 2 pm to 4 pm unless otherwise noted. All meetings in the History Department Lounge (CH209) with the exceptions (see below). Queries to Dan Raff (raff@wharton.upenn.edu). Hosted by the Penn…
Next Seminar: Vera Rocha (Copenhagen Business School) Management Department colloquia series are offered in the fall and spring semesters. 12:00 to 1:30 PM SH-DH Hosted by the Wharton Management Department.
Next Seminar: Hengcheng Dai (UCLA) Decision Processes Colloquia Summary: Day: Monday’s Time: 12:00 – 1:20 PM Location: JMHH 360 Please contact the following if you have any questions or wish to be added to the colloquia e-mail list: Faculty Coordinator: John McCoy (Marketing) Faculty Coordinator: Katherine Milkman (Operations, Information and…
Next Seminar: Jeff Shrader (Columbia University) Energy Economics & Finance Seminar Summary: The seminar series in Energy Economics & Finance (EEF) is jointly organized by Wharton’s Business Economics and Public Policy Department, the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy, and Wharton’s Business, Climate and Environment Lab. The scope of the seminar…
Next Seminar: Lukas Schmid (USC) Coordinators: Vincent Glode and Pari Sastry Spring 2026 Wednesdays 12:00 to 1:30 PM SH-DH 211
Next Seminar: Tom Haigh (University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee) Management Department colloquia series are offered in the fall and spring semesters. 12:00 to 1:30 PM SH-DH Hosted by the Wharton Management Department.
What does it take for people to trust an AI agent with their inbox, their files, or their credit card — and how can businesses design agents that overcome those barriers? In this episode of AI Horizons, Professor Stefano Puntoni, faculty co-director of Wharton Human-AI Research, and Thomas McKinlay, founder of…
Next Seminar: Shivani Agarwal (Penn) FOLDS Seminar Summary: What: This seminar features leading experts in optimization, learning, and data science. Topics span algorithms, complexity, modeling, applications, and mathematical underpinnings. Why: Foundational advances in these fields are increasingly intertwined. This seminar serves as a university-wide hub to bring together the many communities across…
Next Seminar: Gaizka Ormazabal (IESE Business School) Hosted by the Wharton Accounting Department.
Next Seminar: Ben Handel (UC Berkeley) "Thinking versus Doing: Cognitive Capacity, Decision Making and Medical Diagnosis" Health Economics Seminar Summary: We are pleased to announce the speakers for the upcoming Health Economics Fall Workshop, hosted by the Wharton Health Care Management Department. Please mark your calendars for these seminars, which…
Next Seminar: Emily Mrig (UC San Francisco) "From Promise to Practice: How Payment, Coverage, and Institutional Dynamics Shape Access to Precision Medicine" LDI Seminar Summary: In the era of precision medicine, genetic tests promise unprecedented opportunities for individualized care and improved clinical outcomes across a growing range of conditions, from…
Next Seminar Dante Donati (Columbia Business School) Marketing Department Colloquia Summary: Location: 7th Floor JMHH Time: 12:00 Noon – 1:20 PM (unless otherwise noted) For Colloquia scheduling information and suggestions for additional speakers: Faculty Coordinator: Gidi Nave (Fall 2025) Faculty Coordinator: Zhenling Jiang (Spring 2026) Admin Coordinator: Beth McCarthy Hosted…
Next Seminar: Said Ibrahim (Thomas Jefferson University) Charles C. Leighton, MD Memorial Lecture with Said Ibrahim, MD, MBA "Variations in Health Care Access, Utilization, and Outcomes: The Case of Elective Joint Replacement" LDI Seminar Summary: Please save the date for this event! A warm buffet lunch will be served after…
Next Seminar: Xin Gui (UC Berkeley) If you are affiliated with UPenn and are interested in our seminars, please contact stat-seminars@wharton.upenn.edu to join our seminar list-serve so that you can receive our seminar announcements.
Next Seminar: Ashley Martin (Stanford) Decision Processes Colloquia Summary: Day: Monday’s Time: 12:00 – 1:20 PM Location: JMHH 360 Please contact the following if you have any questions or wish to be added to the colloquia e-mail list: Faculty Coordinator: John McCoy (Marketing) Faculty Coordinator: Katherine Milkman (Operations, Information and…
Next Seminar: Simon Jäger (Princeton University) "What’s in a Job Ad? Evidence From Worker Beliefs and Job Choicewith a Priced Amenity" Public and Labor Economics Seminar Summary: The Public and Labor Economics Seminar is organized by Ben Lockwood and Ben Sprung-Keyser. The Seminars are held from 12:00 p.m. – 1:20 p.m….
Next Seminar: Oliver Hauser (University of Exter) Seminar Details: The Behavioral and Experimental Economics Seminar is returning for the 2025-2026 academic year. It is now run jointly with the Decision Processes seminar, hosted Mondays from 12-1:20pm. We will jointly host approximately 1 seminar per month, normally aiming for the first…
Next Seminar: Teevrat Garg (UC San Diego) Energy Economics & Finance Seminar Summary: The seminar series in Energy Economics & Finance (EEF) is jointly organized by Wharton’s Business Economics and Public Policy Department, the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy, and Wharton’s Business, Climate and Environment Lab. The scope of the…
Event Overview: In 2026, Philadelphia will be a prime time player on the world's sporting stage – hosting the FIFA World Cup 26, NCAA March Madness, the PGA Championship, and the MLB All-Star Game. But what will it take to translate such global attention into lasting economic impact? This timely…
Please join us for the next AI Horizons webinar, hosted by Wharton Human-AI Research Faculty Co-Director Prasanna (Sonny) Tambe. AI is reshaping how teams make decisions by embedding algorithms directly into everyday workflows. But as humans and AI collaborate more closely, an important question arises: When does teaming enhance performance,…
Next Seminar: Anastasia Zakolyukina (Baruch College) Hosted by the Wharton Accounting Department.
This two-day in-person academic conference will cover themes on AI’s impact on employee experience, the necessity for reskilling and upskilling for an AI-driven future, and forms of collaboration between AI and humans in professional settings.
Led by: Shiri Melumad, associate professor of marketing at the Wharton School Smart technologies such as AI-enabled voice assistants, smartphones, and large language models are more than just functional tools that facilitate daily tasks and increase efficiency; they are also fundamentally altering how consumers think, feel, shop, and communicate. In…
The Wharton-Chicago-Harvard Insolvency and Restructuring Conference is the premier academic conference for scholars and practitioners in leveraged finance, distress, and restructuring. The event features works-in-progress from researchers in law, finance, accounting, economics, management, and other disciplines, along with commentary from practitioners in the worlds of leveraged finance and restructuring. The…
