The Annual MIS Academic Leadership Conference (MALC 2023) whosted by Fox School of Business, Temple University in Philadelphia, on October 26-28th, 2023. MALC is the exclusive forum for MIS academic leaders to network with and learn from each other. The second MALC conference was hosted at Temple in 2012, and we are thrilled to bring MALC back to Philadelphia in 2023.

Our goal is to maintain the small and highly interactive format of the conference focusing on the opportunities and challenges facing MIS academic leaders. The conference will feature keynote presentations by academic and industry leaders, as well as panels, debates, and invited presentations.

Olga presented her paper ' Blockchain Scaling and Liquidity Concentration on Decentralized Exchanges' at both the AFFECT Workshop, AFA Annual Meetings, New Orleans, January 2023 and Economics of Financial Technology Conference, Edinburgh, June 21-23, 2023.

The abstract for her paper is:

Liquidity providers (LPs) on decentralized exchanges (DEXs) can protect themselves from adverse selection risk by updating their positions more frequently. However, repositioning is costly, because LPs have to pay gas fees for each update. We analyze the causal relation between repositioning and liquidity concentration around the market price, using the entry of a blockchain scaling solution, Polygon, as our instrument. Polygon's higher throughput and lower gas fees allow LPs to update more frequently than on Ethereum. Our results demonstrate that higher repositioning intensity and precision lead to greater liquidity concentration, which benefits small trades by reducing their slippage.

Supported by the Abu Dhabi Department of Education (ADEK), the event convened 42 academics and scholars from 24 international institutions to drive immersive teaching and research transformation. INSEAD, the business school for the world, hosted the 1st Annual Meeting of the Global XR Management Community with the support of the Abu Dhabi Department of Education and Knowledge (ADEK).

The meeting, held from 4-6 June 2023 at the INSEAD Middle East Campus in Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates), provided a forum for academics using Extended Reality (XR) technologies in teaching and research worldwide.
 
The event was led by the INSEAD VR Immersive Learning Initiative, a global centre of excellence at the INSEAD Middle East Campus, which has created the world’s most extensive VR library for management education with 20 VR Immersive Learning Experiences.
 
INSEAD has been a pioneer in integrating immersive technologies into business education. The school is spearheading efforts to build a vibrant Global XR Management Community by hosting the three-day event.
 
The event convened 42 academics from 24 academic institutions worldwide (including Harvard Business School, Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago, Haas School of Business at the University of California Berkeley, Warwick Business School, INSEAD, and Copenhagen Business School). It was a forum for academics to present and discuss the latest VR experiences, research findings, innovative projects, and new ideas for collaboration.