I report, with great sadness, the passing of Paul David. A fabulous scholar of economic history and the economics of technology, he lit up Stanford for six decades. siepr.stanford.edu/people/paul-da…

PATENT REMEDIES AND TECHNOLOGY LICENSING: EVIDENCE FROM A SUPREME COURT DECISION ift.tt/jfAF6k3

Amazing work by the amazing Claudio A must read if interested in value creation/appropriation, and the interplay of competition and cooperation. And yes, it is a highly sophisticated formal paper, but Claudio is a master at making it easy for everyone to go through it💫

In Aer 1990 Paul David's computer & dynamo: new technologies take ages till complementary assets are in place (productivity paradox). No longer applies? Are we planning research on it? ... Generative AI set to affect 300mn jobs across major economies ft.com/content/7dec44…

Looking forward to chatting with my friend David Laibson today. If you are around campus please stop by….details below.

New paper in JOM by steve blank and Jonathan Eckhardt nicely reviewing The Lean Startup. Highlights theory preceding experimentation as critical but also as current area of weakness. See theory-based view. Teppo Felin Alfonso Gambardella journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

Yes! What is the value of developing a theory to guide experimentation? With Rajshree Agarwal, FrancescaBacco, @AndreaCoali, Alfonso Gambardella, Haji msangi, Steven Sonka, Anna Temu, Betty Waized and Audra Wormald we explore this with an RCT in Tanzania papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Arnaldo Camuffo @andreacoali Alfonso Gambardella Haji msangi Anna Temu Audra Wormald Not all hypotheses-testing are the same. Our field experiments found that testing hypotheses developed with a theory of value allowed for more coordinated changes and translated in greater profits than those tested without the upfront guidance of theory!

.... documents for AI Paul David's point (Computer & Dynamo AER 1990) that it takes time for societies to adjust to technologies ... Your job is (probably) safe from artificial intelligence economist.com/finance-and-ec…

Arnaldo Camuffo Arnaldo Camuffo Alfonso Gambardella Alfonso Gambardella & Andrea Pignataro Università Bocconi "Theory Driven Strategic Management Decisions" CEPR WP repec.cepr.org/repec/cpr/cepr… #VeniceSummerInstitute2023 #BigData #ManagementPractices workshop CESifo Predictive People Analytics

Register for ourPDW on 5Aug, 1pm STR - Strategic Management Division to discuss about #decisionmaking and new #games to use in your teaching and research. With Rajshree Agarwal Dan Levinthal Ramana Nanda Violina Rindova Erin Scott Scott Stern Todd Zenger Arnaldo Camuffo Alfonso Gambardella @andreacoali

Program now available for the CEPR Incentives, Management and Organization (IMO) & Entrepreneurship Economics (ENT) workshop hosted Luiss Guido Carli in Rome Sept 7-8: cepr.org/events/incenti…

The next NBER Organizational Economics Working Group meeting will take place in Cambridge on November 16 and 17th 2023. Please submit your papers & retweet! conference.nber.org/confsubmit/bac…

Today Academy of Management @ 1PM, Marriott Salon F: The competitive advantage of theories. With Rajshree Agarwal Dan Levinthal Ramana Nanda Violina Rindova Erin Scott Scott Stern Todd Zenger Arnaldo Camuffo Alfonso Gambardella @andreacoali

Join the K&I Session 2486 - Foundational Scholar Interview with Rajshree Agarwal Marco S. Giarratana Elizabeth J. Altman #sms2023

Amateurs think in absolutes. Professionals think in probabilities.

Exciting Lineup of papers from the Empirical Management Conference 🧵

... on the need for more replications but also more (good) theories economist.com/leaders/2023/1…

More work is needed to understand strategic management by firms, how firms behave, and how they respond to economic incentives. G Azmat Sciences Po, Florian Englmaier, Alfonso Gambardella, M Guadalupe INSEAD, Raffaella Sadun, C Thomas LSE ow.ly/fzt550TiEne

🎙I just created a 6min podcast episode about my latest paper with Arnaldo Camuffo, Alfonso Gambardella Elena Novelli emilio paolucci CSpina Stay tuned for more to come! open.spotify.com/show/1Vtiy3XGL…