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Finance Research Seminar

Area Administration This research explores how human-defined goals influence the behavior of Large Language Models (LLMs) through purpose-conditioned cognition. Using financial prediction tasks, we show that revealing the downstream use (e.g. predicting stock returns or earnings) of LLM outputs leads the LLM to generate biased sentiment and competition measures, even though these measures are intended to be downstream task–independent. Goal-aware prompting shifts intermediate measures toward the disclosed downstream objective. This purpose leakage improves performance before the LLM’s knowledge cutoff, but with no advantage post-cutoff. AI bias due to “seeing the goal” is not an algorithmic flaw, but stems from human accountability in research design to ensure the statistical validity and reliability of AI-generated measurements. Subtitle: Seeing the Goal, Missing the Truth: Human Accountability for AI Bias. Speaker Details: Associate Professor Sean Cao University of Maryland Please click here to view profile. Type: Seminars & Workshops. Subject: Finance & Financial Markets. Audience: Academic Community. Monday, February 23, 2026, 10:30 AM – 11:45 AM. Lee Kong Chian School of Business Level 1, Seminar Room 1.1 50 Stamford Road Singapore 178899.

SMU LKCSB Coffee Sessions (Osaka, Japan)

Infosessions Hourly Sessions: Monday, 23 February 2026 12pm - 4pm (JST) (half-hourly sessions) 6pm - 8pm (JST) (half-hourly sessions). RSVP: . Reserve a seat: https://postgraduate.smu.edu.sg/acton/fs/blocks/showLandingPage/a/11522/p/p-034f/t/page/fm/2. Event Details: Join us for an insightful session to discover how our programmes, with a strong focus on leadership and management can support your personal and professional aspirations. Our Admissions Advisor will speak with you directly to provide detailed guidance on the application process and to discuss the financial aid and scholarship opportunities that may be available to you. For a pre-application assessment, please bring along a copy of your resume for a personalised review. Kindly n… Contact: lkcsbpg.admissions@smu.edu.sg. Type: Information Sessions. Subject: Business. Finance & Financial Markets. Audience: Public. Prospective Student. Monday, February 23, 2026, 12:00 PM – 8:00 PM. Starbucks Coffee ー LINKS UMEDA 2F Ofukacho, 1−1 ヨドバシ梅田タワ Osaka, Kita Ward, 〒530-0011, Japan.

SMU LKCSB Coffee Sessions (Tokyo, Japan)

Infosessions Hourly Sessions: Wednesday, 25 February 2026 12pm - 4pm (JST) (half-hourly sessions) 6pm - 8pm (JST) (half-hourly sessions). RSVP: . Reserve a seat: https://postgraduate.smu.edu.sg/acton/fs/blocks/showLandingPage/a/11522/p/p-034f/t/page/fm/2. Event Details: Join us for an insightful session to discover how our programmes, with a strong focus on leadership and management can support your personal and professional aspirations. Our Admissions Advisor will speak with you directly to provide detailed guidance on the application process and to discuss the financial aid and scholarship opportunities that may be available to you. For a pre-application assessment, please bring along a copy of your resume for a personalised review. Kindly n… Contact: lkcsbpg.admissions@smu.edu.sg. Type: Information Sessions. Subject: Business. Finance & Financial Markets. Audience: Public. Prospective Student. Wednesday, February 25, 2026, 12:00 PM – 8:00 PM. Excelsior Caffé Kyobashi, 1 Chome−3−5 三井ガーデンホテル１Ｆ Chuo City, Tokyo, 〒104-0031, Japan.

MEI virtual coffee session (Singapore)

Infosessions Hourly Sessions: 5PM - 8PM SGT (half-hourly sessions). RSVP: . Reserve a seat: https://postgraduate.smu.edu.sg/acton/fs/blocks/showLandingPage/a/11522/p/p-0382/t/page/fm/3. Event Details: We welcome you to discover how our postgraduate programmes, with emphasis on leadership and management training, can help boost your career. Admissions Advisors will speak with you directly to address your concerns and discuss how our suite of Master programmes can fulfil your academic and career aspirations. To do a pre-application assessment of your profile, please send us a copy of your resume. Virtual This session will be held virtually. To improve security, Zoom sign… Contact: mei.admissions@smu.edu.sg. Type: Information Sessions. Subject: Business. Finance & Financial Markets. Audience: Prospective Student. Public. Wednesday, February 25, 2026, 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM.

SMU MAF/MQF Hybrid Coffee session

MAF Infosessions Hourly Sessions: Thursday, 26 February 2026 Virtual: 10am - 6pm (SGT) (hourly sessions) Physical: 6pm-8pm (SGT) (hourly sessions). RSVP: . Reserve a seat: https://postgraduate.smu.edu.sg/acton/fs/blocks/showLandingPage/a/11522/p/p-037a/t/page/fm/2. Event Details: Join us for an insightful session to discover how our programmes, with a strong focus on leadership and management can support your personal and professional aspirations. Our Admissions Advisor will speak with you directly to provide detailed guidance on the application process and to discuss the financial aid and scholarship opportunities that may be available to you. For a pre-application assessment, please bring along a copy of your resume for a personalised review. Kindly n… Contact: lkcsbpg.admissions@smu.edu.sg. Type: Information Sessions. Subject: Business. Finance & Financial Markets. Audience: Public. Prospective Student. Thursday, February 26, 2026, 10:00 AM – 9:00 PM. Singapore Management University Lee Kong Chian School of Business Level 4, Postgraduate Office 50 Stamford Road Singapore 178899 We will be sending the zoom link 2 hours before the start of the event. You are required to download the Zoom app & sign.

Operations Management Research Seminar

Area Administration We propose an exact solution approach to the Guaranteed Service Model (GSM), one of the most widely applied models for optimizing safety stock placement in supply chain networks. Based on linear programming (LP), our approach handles any directed acyclic network and any cost function that depends on a stage's incoming and outgoing service times. It scales polynomially in the number of nodes n in the network, and exponentially in its treewidth, which quantifies how "tree-like" a network is, and can be much smaller than n. This contrasts with existing approaches, which scale exponentially in n. The proof of exactness of our approach relies crucially on showing that the join of transportation-like polytopes remains integral, and it is more broadly applicable to other Operations Management problems. The use of linear programming makes for straightforward implementation, including when incorporating additional operational constraints. It also enables sensitivity analyses and the construction of principled bounds o… Subtitle: From Trees to Treewidth: Inventory Management in Complex Supply Chain Networks. Speaker Details: Assistant Professor Georgina Hall INSEAD Georgina Hall is an Assistant Professor at INSEAD in the Decision Sciences Area. Her research focuses on convex relaxations of NP-hard problems, particularly those that arise in polynomial optimization and problems on graphs. Prior to joining INSEAD in 2019, she was a postdoctoral student at INRIA. She completed her PhD in Operations Research and Financial Engineering at Princeton University in 2018. She is the recipient of the 2018 INFORMS Optimization Society You… Type: Seminars & Workshops. Subject: Operations Management. Audience: Academic Community. Thursday, February 26, 2026, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM. Singapore Management University Lee Kong Chian School of Business 50 Stamford Road Level 2, Seminar Room 2-3 Singapore 178899.

SMU MIM Virtual Masterclass: AI and Future Jobs

Infosession Hourly Sessions: 6PM - 7:15PM (Singapore Time). RSVP: . Reserve a seat: https://postgraduate.smu.edu.sg/acton/fs/blocks/showLandingPage/a/11522/p/p-0387/t/page/fm/3. Event Details: SMU MIM Virtual Masterclass: AI and Future Jobs, Speaker: Prof. Geng Xue Song Synopsis: How is AI reshaping work—and how should you prepare? This talk distills recent evidence on occupational trends in the AI era. Roles built on routine, standardized analysis and predictable workflows face the greatest pressure, while value rises for capabilities machines don’t possess: framing problems, exercising judgment, navigating ethics, and collaborating across teams. Ask yourself: if AI can generate your typical… Contact: mim.admissions@smu.edu.sg. Type: Information Sessions. Subject: Business. Finance & Financial Markets. Audience: Prospective Student. Public. Wednesday, March 4, 2026, 6:00 PM – 7:15 PM.

Digital Business Research Peak Seminar Series

Area Administration We study whether greater digital engagement increases the risk of identity theft by exploiting bank branch closures as a shock that shifts economic activity online. Using a quasi-natural experiment, we find causal evidence that branch closures increase identity theft, particularly in more vulnerable communities. Exposed consumers spend more time on mobile apps and shift their expenditures from offline to online channels. Adversarial activities associated with identity theft, such as unwanted calls and phishing attempts, increase after branch closures. Overall, our evidence suggests that digitalization offers consumer benefits, but also imposes hidden privacy costs. Subtitle: Grand Theft Identity: The Privacy Costs of Digitalization. Speaker Details: Assistant Professor Gloria Yu Lee Kong Chian School of Business. Type: Seminars & Workshops. Subject: Finance & Financial Markets. Audience: Academic Community. Friday, March 13, 2026, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM. Lee Kong Chian School of Business Level 2, Seminar Room 2.8 50 Stamford Road Singapore 178899.

SMU MBA Session 18 March - From Specialist to Leader: What the SMU MBA Delivers for Your Career

Infosessions Hourly Sessions: 12.30PM - 1:15PM (Singapore Time). RSVP: . Reserve a seat: https://postgraduate.smu.edu.sg/acton/fs/blocks/showLandingPage/a/11522/p/p-038e/t/page/fm/1. Event Details: Event Sypnosis Many professionals reach a stage in their careers where technical expertise alone is no longer enough to progress into leadership roles. Join us for a 45-minute lunch-time fireside chat featuring Tobias Bufler (Class of 2025), who shares how the SMU MBA shaped his transition from a specialist role into broader leadership and business responsibilities. Drawing from his personal experience, he will reflect on how the programme shaped his mindset, decision-making, and leadership approach — bey… Contact: mba.admissions@smu.edu.sg. Type: Information Sessions. Subject: Business. Audience: Prospective Student. Public. Wednesday, March 18, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:15 PM.

SMU Professional Doctorates Hybrid Information Session & Current Student Sharing

Infosessions Hourly Sessions: 7-8.30 PM (Singapore time). RSVP: . Reserve a seat: https://postgraduate.smu.edu.sg/acton/fs/blocks/showLandingPage/a/11522/p/p-039a/t/page/fm/2. Event Details: We welcome you to find out more about the Professional Doctorate programmes we have here in SMU’s Lee Kong Chian School of Business. We offer two Professional Doctorate programmes that can be completed in 3-5 years while working: PhD in Business (General Management) , Doctor of Business Administration, The session will be hosted on Zoom and a physical session happening concurrently. Hence, this would be a hybrid session. * Participants that are registering for the session via the Zoom platform, please… Contact: lkcsbpd.admissions@smu.edu.sg. Type: Information Sessions. Subject: Business. Finance & Financial Markets. Audience: Prospective Student. Public. Tuesday, March 24, 2026, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM. Meeting Room 5-4 (Level 5) SMU Lee Kong Chian School of Business 50 Stamford Road, Singapore 178899 Singapore.

SMU MAF/MQF Hybrid Information Session and Alumni Sharing

MAF Infosessions Hourly Sessions: Thursday, 26 March 2026. RSVP: . Reserve a seat: https://postgraduate.smu.edu.sg/acton/fs/blocks/showLandingPage/a/11522/p/p-039c/t/page/fm/1. Event Details: We welcome you to discover how the SMU's MAF & MQF programme, with emphasis on finance, leadership and management training, can help boost your career. This session will be held in hybrid mode. You are welcome to bring a friend with you. Simply forward them this registration link: https://postgraduate.smu.edu.sg/acton/fs/blocks/showLandingPage/a/11522/p/p-039c/t/page/fm/2. Contact: lkcsbpg.admissions@smu.edu.sg. Type: Information Sessions. Subject: Business. Finance & Financial Markets. Audience: Public. Prospective Student. Thursday, March 26, 2026, 7:00 PM – Friday, March 27, 2026, 8:30 PM. Singapore Management University Lee Kong Chian School of Business Level 4, Postgraduate Office 50 Stamford Road Singapore 178899 We will be sending the zoom link 2 hours before the start of the event.