HEC Data Day 2021

The HEC Data Day 2021 allows HEC Paris researchers, students and start-ups to present innovative projects dealing with new data and/or data science techniques (machine learning, AI, etc.). The audience is made of researchers, Master and Ph.D. students, as well as professionals from partner companies. This is a face-to-face event taking place on the Jouy-en-Josas HEC Campus (in building T, room 206) but it can also be followed online on Zoom.

8:30 - 9:00       Welcome coffee

9:00 - 9:15       Welcome Address: Christophe Pérignon, Associate Dean for Research, HEC Paris

9:15 - 10:45     Session 1: Chaired by Shirish Srivastava
                          (HEC Paris, Information System and Operations Management)

• Federica De Stefano (HEC Paris, HR and Management): Careers Analytics: Employee specialization, compensation and advancement
• Rodolphe Durand (Strategy, HEC Paris), Alexandre Madelaine (Accounting, HEC Paris PhD), Luc Paugam (Accounting, HEC Paris), Hervé Stolowy (Accounting, HEC Paris): The influence of language and images in CSR disclosures on sustainability performance evaluation
• Xitong Li (HEC Paris, Information System and Operations Management): How do product recommendations help consumers search products? Evidence of underlying mechanisms from a field experiment
• Presentation of a startup incubated at HEC Paris: AlloReview with Yves-Marie Bouedo

10:45 - 11:00     Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30     Session 2: Chaired by Denisa Mindruta
                            (HEC Paris, Strategy and Business Policy)

• Christophe Spaenjers (HEC Paris, Finance): Creators, Collectors, and Speculators in an NFT Market
• Pablo Baquero (HEC Paris, Tax and Law): The compliance gap in data supply chains: Smart contracts as a compliance technology
• Yann Algan (HEC Paris, Economics): Data, Trust and Public policy
• Presentation of a startup incubated at HEC Paris: Ayolab with Christophe Le Houedec

12:30 - 14:00      Lunch break
                              (Lunch only for presenters, faculty, Ph.D. students, and guests)

14:00 - 15:30      Session 3: Chaired by Anne-Laure Sellier
                             (HEC Paris, Marketing)

• Aluna Wang (HEC Paris, Accounting): Pattern recognition and anomaly detection in bookkeeping data
• Jean-Noël Barrot (HEC Paris, Finance): Using high frequency and social networks data to estimate the local impact of the Covid crisis
• Julien Grand-Clément (HEC Paris, Information System and Operations Management): Interpretable machine learning: Application to triage and reassessment guidelines for ventilator rationing
• Presentation of a Data Challenge: Master in Data Science for Business, Eurofiber - an Antin participation, Vincent Fraitot, Denis Gromb, and the winning team

15:30 - 15:45      Coffee break 

15:45 - 17:15      Session 4: Chaired by Augustin Landier
                             (HEC Paris, Finance)

• Thierry Foucault (HEC Paris, Finance): Does alternative data improve financial forecasting?
• Matthew Yeaton (HEC Paris, Strategy): Testing a theory of cultural evolution within organizations: Evidence from alt-right echo chambers
• Felix Tropf (ENSAE-CREST, Sociology): Integrating genetic data into social sciences
• Klaus Miller (HEC Paris, Marketing): Value of Online Tracking

17:15 - 17:30      Coffee break 

17:30 – 18.30      Keynote:

David Freeman Engstrom (Stanford University): "The Automated State"

Introduction by David Restrepo-Amariles (HEC Paris, Tax and Law)

Joint event between HEC Data Day and Algorithmic Law & Society Symposium.

18:30 – 20:00       Networking Cocktail: Hall d'Honneur 

Organizer: Christophe Pérignon

Contact: matheron@hec.fr

The HEC Data Day 2021 is sponsored by: