Dr. S. Abraham Ravid

The weekly faculty seminars at Sy Syms School of Business, organized for the past seven years by Dr. S. Abraham Ravid, have presented a variety of national and international scholars in all business disciplines, including finance, marketing strategy, entrepreneurship, accounting and integrated data services. Dr. Ravid noted that this year, as seminars went virtual, the program was able, for the first time, to host two eminent scholars in a joint seminar: Dr. Josh Lerner, the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at Harvard Business School,  and Dr. Nick Bloom, William D. Eberle Professor of Economics at Stanford University. According to Dr. Ravid, “they are probably the most well-known economists in the field of innovation and entrepreneurship.” The two academics presented an early draft of a joint paper and took comments and feedback from the Sy Syms faculty. “We were honored to have the chance to weigh in on their study,” noted Dr. Ravid.  

Dr. Josh Lerner (left) and Dr. Nick Bloom

  Other speakers this year have included the following:

• Dr. Per Strömberg, a former chair and a current member of the Nobel committee in economics as well as the SSE Centennial Professor of Finance and Private Equity at the Stockholm School of Economics and adjunct professor of finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, shared his work and discussed the process of awarding the economics prize.
• Dr. Renée Adams, professor of finance at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford and one of the most prominent women in finance, presented a paper on how personal values affect the decision of corporate directors around the world.
• Dr. Andrey Malenko, University of Michigan
• Dr. Haim Kedar-Levy, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
• Dr. Ines Black, Duke University
• Dr. Cheryl Wakslak, University of Southern California Marshall School of Business
• Dr. Sara Moreira, Northwestern University
• Dr. Shiri Melumad, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
• Dr. Ulya Tsolmon, Washington University’s Olin Business School
• Dr. Anne Laure Sellier, École des hautes études commerciales de Paris, or HEC