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Just give it a little bit more >> energy. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> My name is Ron Chan Lee. I'm assistant
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professor of accounting at Or I'm from Beijing, China. I spent the first 22 years of my life there and I did my PhD
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here in the United States at Columbia Business School. My research focuses on the production and communication of
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information in the capital markets. We are living in a world today that information environment for firms are
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changing rapidly. It's very different from say 10, 20 years ago. the regulators they're requiring firms to
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sharing more of their information also data vendors enabled by new technologies making alternative data available to us
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academics and also the practitioners. So how do we actually navigate through all
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this changes? One of the most exciting thing about joining Wharton is really the culture here. Even before joining I
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heard many good words about the collaborative collegial culture here at Wharton and after joining I have to say
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that I'm absolutely inspired by all the day-to-day conversations that I had with
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my colleagues. Sometimes it's just really exchange of idea. Sometimes who knows whether there will be a new
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research project coming out of the spark.