Innovation Opportunities and Risks

For military aviators, functioning without fail within a high-stress work environment is a necessity. In order to complete critical missions, they make split-second decisions while piloting 44,000 lbs of hurtling machinery accelerating at up to 9G’s in high-altitude conditions. For less experienced pilots, managing the associated physical and mental fatigue is an integral and challenging ...Read More

Although it is well documented that disruptive events, such as an inventor’s premature death, cause a large and persistent decline in their co-inventor’s innovation performance, strategies to mitigate these negative effects remain unexplored. This project aims to understand how an inventor’s skill and proficiency in artificial intelligence (AI) could counteract the productivity decline resulting from ...Read More

Every day, millions of people engage in the popular behavior called “binge-watching”, a type of media consumption where multiple episodes of the same TV show are seen in a row (Schweidel and Moe, 2016). Given how popular “binge-watching” is and how much streaming platforms are relying on it to recommend and create new content to ...Read More

Since ChatGPT’s launch in November 2022, a surge of studies has underscored generative AI’s potential across a wide range of applications, including improving entrepreneurial performance, spurring innovation, and even providing more ethical advice. Less attention has been garnered about how AI impacts the efficiency of a decision-maker’s information search process. In the context of health ...Read More

Venture capital (VC) significantly contributes to job creation and innovation in high-tech startups, with around 50% of tech companies reaching IPOs in the past three decades having VC backing. While the benefits of VC on startups and regional economies are well-documented, its impact on individual career trajectories remains underexplored. This research proposal investigates how VC ...Read More

Marketers and policymakers often use nudges to help consumers make welfare-increasing decisions, such as encouraging physically and mentally healthy choices. This research explores when one nudge is more effective than another. More specifically, it demonstrates nudges focusing on telling consumers how to do something are more effective than nudges telling consumers how and why to ...Read More

The gig economy is rapidly integrating electric vehicles (EVs) into its infrastructure, particularly within ride-hailing services such as Uber and Lyft. Algorithms play a crucial role in this ecosystem, determining customer pricing, driver compensation, and matching drivers with customers. While these algorithms have enabled efficient matching of supply and demand, they also face criticisms, including ...Read More

Vertical integration in the video streaming market has become increasingly prevalent in recent years. Notable examples include Amazon’s merger with MGM, Walt Disney’s acquisition of Hulu, and the launch of streaming platforms by various studios such as Paramount and NBCUniversal. Many studios now license most of their shows to their vertically integrated streaming platforms, which ...Read More

This research project aims to investigate the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) investments by non-tech firms (AI-adopters) on product market competition, innovation, and industry dynamics. By leveraging novel datasets, including firm-level AI-workers, product-level pricing and quantities, and textual information from company filings, this study seeks to provide new insights into how AI adoption Read More

Private equity has become an increasingly active player in technology acquisitions in recent years, yet most strategy scholarship has focused on the effects of corporate acquirer ownership on innovation outcomes, providing little guidance to managers on how to choose between the two M&A options. To remedy this gap, I examine how private equity and corporate ...Read More