Seminars of Interest at Columbia

Monday, October 14th

2:30 pm to 3:45 pm - International Affairs Building 1101
Economic Theory Workshop - Niko Matouschek 
Modular Organization (with Michael Powell, Bryony Reich)

Tuesday, October 15th

12:30 pm to 1:30 pm - Uris 333
Marketing Seminar - Sangil Lee (Wharton)

12:30 pm to 1:30 pm - Uris 329
PhD Student Seminar - Yahui Wang 

12:30 pm to 1:45 pm - Uris 140
Macroeconomics Lunch Group (Faculty and invited grad students only) - Jay Hyun 

2:15 pm to 3:45 pm - International Affairs Building 1101
Industrial Organization and Strategy Seminar - Ryan McDevitt (Duke) 

4:15 pm to 5:45 pm - International Affairs Building 1101
Money-Macro Workshop - Juan Herreno

Wednesday, October 16th

4:05 pm to 5:35 pm - International Affairs Building 1101
Applied Microeconomics Seminar - Robert Ainsworth

Friday, October 18th

10:30 am - Uris 301
Accounting Seminar - Jordan Schoenfeld

Article of the Week
New Evidence Reveals Training Can Reduce Cognitive Bias and Improve Decision Making
A new study from HEC Paris suggests training can have significantly reduce the influence cognitive bias has on decision making. Through a game-based debiasing training, HEC Paris business students were confronted with how a collection of biases interfered with decision making. Afterwards, these students completed the "Carter Racing" case study, in which they had to make a complex business decision based on a variety of factors. Based on their solutions to the case study, it was determined that the students who experienced training were 29% less likely to make "inferior hypothesis-confirming" decisions.