Hurts foreign students. Hurts America's universities. Hurts freedom. Hurts America. Hurts the World. "Foreign college students could be forced to leave the U.S.... according to guidance released by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)." axios.com/online-classes…

A statement from Northeastern University.

In the next issue, Barak Libai, Yakov Bart, #SonjaGensler, Charles Hofacker, Andreas Kaplan, #KimKoetterheinrich, & @EikeBKroll offer "a critical analysis of how artificial intelligence (AI) affects the essential nature of customer relationship management (CRM)."

Changing the number of approved HITs from 100+ to 500+ drastically increased the quality of responses. Would highly recommend considering that cutoff, particularly if needing text responses. Also, slightly concerning that 20% of already-filtered responses were unusable…

Academics pushing for change in predictive policing have a call to action: "Academic departments with data science courses should implement learning outcomes that address the "ethical, legal, and social implications" of such tools." popularmechanics.com/science/math/a…

In honor of today's congressional antitrust hearings I've updated my diagram of the Google ad stack. Feel free to use with attribution. (Changelog in thread below)

University COVID Model xkcd.com/2355/ m.xkcd.com/2355/

"Marketing budgets rose to the highest percentage of organization budgets" #Marketing koen pauwels

Would #AR boost from #pandemic be enough to shift from niche to mainstream?

Can't think of a more appropriate way to "defy #coronavirus"... themoscowtimes.com/2020/09/10/rus…

Last clip. This is important. Advertisers/adtech want to use Google threat to kill privacy laws. Heimlich is right here but solution is antitrust+privacy with heightened limitations for companies seeing nearly all our behaviors. Enforced purpose limitations (GDPR/CPRA). /41

WFH google trends since Jan 1. Sharp peak in mid/late March, weekly cycle since. Related topics include sweatpants...

Tech platforms designing their policies

Know a junior researcher working at the intersection of #design and #data? Please encourage to apply for our joint Northeastern CAMD and Northeastern D’Amore-McKim School of Business Assistant Professor position Northeastern U., to advance a new research cluster across Center for Design at CAMD and Northeastern DATA Initiative: careers.hrm.northeastern.edu/en-us/job/5042…

Open #marketing #postdoc position with flexible starting date Northeastern U. - we're looking for empirical modelers interested in advancing damore-mckim.northeastern.edu/data-initiativ… and working on high-impact problems with koen pauwels and myself. Please get in touch with us if you're interested!

The posting is up now - thanks for spreading the word! careers.hrm.northeastern.edu/en-us/job/5060…

In the Airbnb and crime paper with Dan O'Brien, we used DID with continuous treatment; so we couldn't directly test for parallel trends using event-study analysis and did other robustness tests instead. We now did that after creating a binary treatment (Airbnb rate >5%). 1/

My first Northeastern event: I'll be giving a keynote today at Northeastern DATA Initiative's DATA Forum on "Implementing #AI #Ethics". Join in! 💁‍♀️ data-initiative.com/data-forum #aiethics

How to market the only #Trappist in the USA? #Spencerbrewery Northeastern DATA Initiative Northeastern D’Amore-McKim School of Business #marketing #beer Northeastern U. Spencer Brewery Yakov Bart Auke Hunneman Tom Meyvis @peeterverlegh news.northeastern.edu/2022/01/26/spe…