Seminars of Interest at Columbia

Tuesday February 14th
12:30pm to 2:00pm - Uris 326 
Management Seminar - Sheena Iyengar (Columbia Business School) and Todd Jick (Columbia Business School) 
Authenticity: what is it and why do we care? and 30 Years of Change Management—Is it Time for a Reboot?

2:15pm to 3:45pm - Uris 331
Finance Seminar - Xavier Giroud
State Taxation and the Reallocation of Business Activity: Evidence from Establishment-Level Data (with Joshua Rauh)

Wednesday February 15th

2:15pm to 3:45pm - 1101 IAB 
International Economics Workshop - Costas Arkolakis (Yale) 
Title Not Available 

4:10pm to 5:10pm - 614 Schermerhorn Hall
Psychology Department Colloquium Series - Margaret McCarthy (University of Maryland)
Title Not Available

Thursday February 16th
2:15pm to 3:45pm - Uris 140
Finance Seminar - Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh (NYU) 
Identifying the Benefits from Home Ownership: A Swedish Experiment (with Paolo Sodini, Roine Vestman, and Ulf von Lilienfeld-Toal) 

Article of the Week
Two Brain Networks Crucial To Decision-Making Identified
Two new mechanisms responsible for the balance between speed and accuracy in humans' decision-making processes have been identified. The research, conducted by scientists from the Medical Research Council Brain Network Dynamics Unit at the University of Oxford, was published in the journal eLife, and it explains in greater detail a type of brain wiring that could be employed in treating neurological disorders, such as Parkinson's disease.