The two latest videos from the Nova SBE’s Research Video Series featured Melissa Prado NOVO BANCO Entrepreneurship & Technology Chair and Pedro Pita Barros BPI | Fundação “la Caixa” Chair in Health Economics.

Our most recent faculty invited to be members of Editorial Boards were:

• Maria Eugénia Mata - Member of the Board of the Consejo Asesor of the journal Transportes, Servicios y Telecomunicaciones and member of the Board of Reviewers of Revista de História da Sociedade e da Cultura, from Centro de História da Sociedade e da Cultura, Universidade de Coimbra.
• Steffen Hoernig - Associate Editor of the Review of Network Economics.

Anne-Laure Fayard work was mentioned on the Economist Impact, an online publication of the business unit from the Economist Group that partners with leading corporations, governments and nonprofits to deliver positive societal change.

Nova SBE congratulates the PhD student Sara Almeida on successfully defending her doctoral thesis entitled "Healthcare in contexts of poverty and conflict", supervised by Pedro Pita Barros.

Patient Innovation was awarded the Caixa Social Award 2021 for the “Patient Innovation for COVID-19” project. The Caixa Social Awards are an initiative of Caixa Geral de Depósitos to distinguish and financially support the work carried out by third sector entities, focused on valuing people.

The Louis-André Gérard-Varet prize for the best paper by a young researcher was awarded to Daniele D'arienzo, Assistant Professor at Nova SBE, with the paper "Learning, Over-reaction and the Wisdom of the Crowd", at the 2021 ASSET conference in Marseille.

Miguel Pina e Cunha, Álvaro Ferreira da Silva and Aníbal Lopez organized the Special Paradox & Plurality International Meeting. Under the theme “Organizations in time: Paradox and history”, this annual event organized by the Fundação Amélia de Mello and the Center of Paradox and Organization aims at discussing organizational and societal problems from a paradox perspective.

The Nova SBE Data Science Knowledge Center (DSKC) launched the Data Science Seminar Series where projects developed by their faculty will be presented. The first seminar was conducted by Rodrigo Belo, Visiting Professor in Data Science and Information Systems at Nova SBE and Associate Professor at Rotterdam School of Management, with the title “Incentive Misalignments in Programmatic Advertising: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment”.

The Nova SBE Finance Knowledge Center is organizing the Finance PhD Pitch Perfect. The goal of initiative is to give students an opportunity to present their unpolished ideas and receive feedback from accomplished researchers in the field. The submissions will be opened until 10th December! Apply here.

The Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) and the University of Luxembourg's Doctoral School of Economics, Finance and Management launched a new edition of its lecture series dedicated to Cross-Border Labor Mobility. Cátia Batista participated with the theme “Migration and Development: Experimental Lessons”.

Susana Peralta participated in the “Portugal em Exame” conference where she classified the Recovery and Resilience Plan as a great patchwork quilt, despite having some good things, such as the concern with education and housing.

In the scope of the partnership established between the Lancaster University and Universidade Nova de Lisboa our school will launch the Lancaster-Nova Seminars in Health Economics and Policy. The first ones are being organized by Mario Martinez Jimenez (PhD student at Lancaster University), Céu Mateus (Lancaster University and researcher at Nova SBE Health Economics & Management) and Judite Gonçalves. In January 2022, the seminars will be presented by PhD students from both universities to discuss their research. People wishing to present or discuss should get in touch with Céu Mateus (c.mateus@lancaster.ac.uk) or with Judite Gonçalves (judite.goncalves@novasbe.pt).

At the Novo Encontro «Juventudes» conference organized by the Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos, Pedro Freitas participated in the debate “Youth: Context and implications?”, which aimed to make an X-ray of young people in Portugal, dealing with the impacts of the pandemic.  Afonso Eça was a speaker at the debate “Youth: What future?” which had as its main theme the youth policies.

Paulo Soares de Pinho was member of the jury for the 2020 José Luís Sapateiro Prize, awarded to the work “Market Liquidity in the Era of Unconventional Monetary Policy”, by Daniel Salazar. The announcement of the prize was associated with the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Comissão do Mercado de Valores Mobiliários (CMVM).

Patient Innovation, represented by Maria João Jacinto, participated at the MEDICA - Leading International Trade Fair Health IT Forum 2021. Maria João Jacinto was member of a panel about “Design Justice”, framed in the “Fields of Innovation” topic.

Leonor Rossi, Nova SBE Associate Adjunct Professor, was invited speaker on the online seminar on Access to documents in the EU organized by the Academy of European Law in Trier (ERA). She participated in the final panel debate on “critical perspective on the existing legal framework and practice: current and future challenges”.

Luis Martinez will be co-chair of the 3rd Digital Marketing and eCommerce Conference, taking place in 2022 in Barcelona. The call for papers is open until the 31st of December, and applicants must be registered as authors at  easychair.org. There will also be a possibility to submit full-paper versions to a Special Issue in Electronic Commerce Research (Springer journal).

The 3rd Edition of the Social Leapfrog program is receiving applications until December 13, 2021.  social organizations based in Portugal can participate in this reflection and training program with a three year duration at Nova SBE. The program is part of the Social Equity Initiative, a partnership between the “la Caixa” Foundation, BPI and Nova SBE, coordinated by the Nova SBE Leadership for Impact Knowledge Center.

The Nova SBE Data Science Knowledge Center welcomed the 2021-2022 cohort of Data Squad Fellows.
DSKC Data Squads are projects that connect students eager to have hands-on experiences in Data Science to Nova SBE Faculty members who need an extra set of hands to develop data projects and research within the field of Data Science. The 2021-2022 DSKC Data Squads were coordinated by Qiwei Han, Irene Consiglio, Natalie Truong, Cátia Alves, Miguel Matos, Rita Roquette and Madalena Borges de Sousa, with the support of Executive Director Lénia Mestrinho and Project Manager Alice Amâncio.