BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260411T130143EDT-2676DCwCCB@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20260411T170143Z DESCRIPTION:Giada Di Stefano\n\nProfessor of Strategy\, Bocconi University \n\n\n Part 1: Publishing in Strategic Management Journal: Myth vs. reality \n Part 2: Conducting Mixed Methods Research: Challenges and Opportunities \n\n\n\nDate: Friday\, April 16\, 2026\n Time: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM\n Locatio n: Bronfman building\, room 301\n\nRegister here by Friday\, April 10\, 20 26\n ( Lunch 11:30 am – 12:00 pm)\n\nRegister here\n\n\nAbstract\n\nNowaday s\, amateur reviewers and professional critics coexist in many markets and express their opinions on the same producers and offerings. To what exten t should we expect the evaluations provided by consumers to conform to tho se provided by professional critics? And are all consumers equally subject to such conformity pressure? To examine these questions\, we exploit a fo rtuitous partnership between Michelin\, the editor of the most prestigious restaurant guide\, and TripAdvisor\, a prominent aggregator of consumer r eviews for the restaurant industry. As a result of this partnership\, the TripAdvisor pages of restaurants evaluated by the Michelin Guide were upda ted with a Michelin badge under the restaurant name and a direct link to t he evaluation by Michelin inspectors. Using a difference-in-differences ap proach\, we examine changes in reviews posted on TripAdvisor before and af ter the appearance of the Michelin evaluation relative to reviews posted o n Yelp\, a similar platform that did not introduce any Michelin-related in formation. Our results reveal that amateur reviewers significantly changed their evaluations when the opinion of experts became more salient. The ch ange was reflected in both the form and substance of their reviews\, with differential treatment effects depending on the status of the amateur eval uators on the review platform.\n DTSTART:20260416T143000Z DTEND:20260416T160000Z LOCATION:room 301\, Bronfman Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1G5\, 1001 rue Sherbrooke Ouest SUMMARY:CSSO Speaker Series: Giada Di Stefano URL:/desautels/channels/event/csso-speaker-series-giad a-di-stefano-372222 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR