
Karen A. and William S. Monfre Professor in Business @UWBusiness @UWMadison / Info Syst Res AE / When I procrastinate, I joke about why I procrastinate.
Madison and Milwaukee, WI
Joined June 2009
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After picking up my son from a coding class,
Me : When you're in high school, you could get a part-time job here and teach kids coding.
Him : Okay
Me : You will learn how hard my job is.
Him : But you don't teach crying, screaming kids.
Me : I am teaching crying, screaming kids.
I love the fact that after becoming a full professor, I now have the freedom to say "we can agree to disagree."
In my recent primary care visit, a nurse found earwax build-up on my ears and cleaned it up.
Now I am calling her a marriage saver.
BIG NEWS : **** Research Productivity Ranking 2024 is out, and our department is ranked #1 in the journals we publish the most.
Dear #JobMarket candidates, remember it is a horizontally differentiated market. If you didn’t get a job from a particular place, it’s because they did not see a fit with you.
To understand this, remember last time you said to your date “I don’t see a chemistry between us.”
Just explained the Continental Divide to my 11-year old son in a way that he can understand
"If you pee to one direction, it goes to one ocean. If you pee to the other direction, it goes to another ocean."
Reviewer 2 : This research question has been extensively studied in prior literature. It's like selling candy the day after Halloween.
After I moved to Wisconsin, someone asked me if I visit Canada more often since I'm closer now.
It turns out I moved farther from Canada.
I am reading a bunch of LLM papers for my doctoral seminar next semester, and many of them read like written by ChatGPT.
I recently met my advisor from Michigan at a conference, and I feel he and I are close friends to each other.
I also met my doctoral students from Temple at the conference, and I feel we are good friends. But I don't know if they feel the same way.
After picking up my son
Me: Ok, go finish your homework. I will do my homework.
Him: Wait, you have homework too?
Me: Yes, I have to create homework.
Dear junior scholars, if I don't recognize who you are, my apologies.
But please know that I don't remember what I ate last night. #CIST2024
Happy to land at Seattle-Tacoma to attend a Generative AI workshop #CIST2024
At a team building exercise, a moderator asked what makes a team a bad team.
I responded “Microsoft Teams.”





