I'm pleased to announce the 1st American Finance Association Junior Faculty Mentoring Program (JFMP) event, which I'm co-organizing w/ Veronika Pool.

The JFMP is hosting a day-long mentoring workshop at the '26 AFA meetings in Philadelphia. 1/3

The next WEFI seminar is April 7th @ noon ET. Vrinda Mittal (UNC) presents "Private Capital Markets and Inequality." Simon Oh (Columbia) discusses.

Register here: bit.ly/wefi_2025_2

My paper w/ Nadya Malenko -- "Board Dynamics over the Startup Lifecycle" -- is (finally!) forthcoming, so we've released startup boards data:
github.com/michaelewens...
It provides VC-backed startup board composition: VC directors, executives, and independents.
Paper here: osf.io/preprints/so...

Amazing opportunity for PhD students interested in entrepreneurship (and attending part of the @nberpubs.bsky.social Summer Institute):

www.nber.org/calls-papers...

Application due: February 15th.

PhD students interested in entrepreneurial finance: send in your applications for the workshop by next Wednesday!

We've significantly updated our paper on modeling + measuring systemic discrimination! Check it out:

www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ab5yx...

(cc @aleximas.bsky.social + @aislinnbohren.bsky.social!)

A short 🧵 on what's new...

The decline of legacy corporate media (reporting), rise of AI, and growing hegemony of index investing all stems from the same underlying assumption — that there’s someone out there doing the work and providing signals/quality data that technology can scrape and parse without having to vet too much.

The deadline for the Columbia PE Research Conference is 12/1. Join us in NYC in March:

FINALLY its here: the (searchable!) database of nearly 30,000 pages of Federal Reserve Board meeting minutes I got through FOIA. As I've already started to write about, they significantly rewrite Federal Reserve history.
www.crisesnotes.com/here-are-the...

📢 Private equity researchers: submit work to the Columbia PE Research Conference held March 6-7 at Columbia Business School.

PhD students: submit to the PhD workshop.

More info: columbiapeconference.com/call-for-pap...
Mailing list: columbiapeconference.com/email-sign-up/

📅 Deadline: Dec. 1st

Apply to the 2nd Summer PhD Workshop on Entrepreneurial Finance, help June 2nd at Paris Dauphine University The workshop offers an in-depth exploration of entrepreneurial finance, emphasizing practical institutional knowledge alongside theory.

entrepreneurial.finance/summer-phd-w...
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