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Wonderful! So sad to have missed the conference this year

Agree; and thanks for sharing that post; it’s thoughtful

What do you mean by the veer towards solo entrepreneurship I the service of giant tech companies?

Home - Platform Papers This website presents findings from a systematic and interdisciplinary review of the literature on platform competition by Joost Rietveld and Melissa Schilling. Interest in platform competition has gr...

You likely already know it, but platformpapers.com is a fantastic resource maintained by @gjrietveld.bsky.social and Melissa Schilling; they’ve got a great JOM based on the database as well

Congratulations! It is a wonderful paper!

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Screenshot of title + abstract of the paper.

🚨New paper alert!🚨

Women are less likely to enter competitions than men—even when equally qualified. But telling them this can change behavior.

📈 In a field experiment on a job application platform, we found that highlighting this gender gap increased the # of job apps women submitted by ~20%.

"I have an uneasy feeling, for instance, that if the computer had been around at the time of Copernicus, nobody would have bothered with him, because the computers could have handled the Ptolemaic epicycles with perfect ease"

- Kenneth Boulding, 1966 (found in Davies' The Unaccountability Machine)

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If you’re in #Boston tonight, you’ve got 4 more hours to look across the river at the gazetothestars.com installation at #MIT looking back at you

Cambridge Bike Give Back is great and Lonnell is a fantastic founder. I was happy to see my much loved (but no longer needed) mountain bike find a new and better home through him.

YouTube video by Business Talk Beyond Prototypes: Rethinking Innovation in Complex Ecosystems with Prof. Douglas Hannah

Had a great time on the Business Talk podcast with Deepak Bhatt. We talk about my research on the dangers of prototyping in tech ecosystems (and some best practices too) youtu.be/NXHyT8uWWco #entrepreneurship #mgmtsky

U of Utah Campus in the snow

Wasatch mountains in the Fall

Our dept (Entrepreneurship & Strategy) at U of Utah is hiring a Post Doc for a July 2025 start.

If you are graduating this Spring with a PhD in Strategy or Economics (or related fields) please see the posting and apply!

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Got the 2nd R&R! Celebrate the small wins 💪 🎉

Hearting this thread doesn’t feel quite right, but I look forward to reading your book once you are able to write it ❤️

Developing a list of Org Scholars and Scholarship. Let me know if you would like to be added!!! @aomconnect.bsky.social @aomsim.bsky.social @orgscience.bsky.social @orgstudies.bsky.social @orgtheory.bsky.social @conflictmanagement.bsky.social

Addressing vaccine skepticism needs to be addressed not by scientific information but by starting with a shared moral outlook.

How can we combat vaccine disinformation?

In my recent paper with Mia Chang-Zunino, we argue that simply countering vaccine skepticism with scientific facts is unlikely to be effective. Instead, the key lies in addressing moral divides.

Read more here: lnkd.in/d6_DNDsJ

If you're new to Bluesky (welcome!) or just looking for some new folks to follow - check out the WOB starter pack

It has 140 researchers studying DEI, sustainability, activism, emotions, employment, entrepreneurship, HR, negotiations, and many other topics related to organizations

#academicsky

A timely post from #ASQ editors about the impat of #GenAI on academic publishing. In short, if we seek the generatively easier road it will hurt the quality of organizational scholarship.

asqjournal.substack.com/p/the-human-...

A picture of the Futurama crew with the overlaid quote, “This isn’t a business. I’ve always thought of it more as a source of cheap labor. Like a family.”

Everyone wants extra time. Everyone thinks it gives an advantage. But that's just not how it works. Instead, we need inclusive assessment, based on principles of universal design for learning.

Photograph of Boston in the snow.

Hello Blue Sky! I’m a Boston-based photographer and content creator that loves sharing the beauty of New England. If you’d like to see daily photos and videos from Boston and New England, follow along! #boston

Picture of title, authors, and abstract of new paper on the labor supply of parents of infants. Mothers increase labor supply. Fathers take leave from work. Mothers in telework-compatible jobs take less leave.

What do parents do in an adaptive labor market when infant care goes away? Perhaps most interesting is what FATHERS do. 👀👀👀 Check out our newest paper below. 👇👇👇

This figure - $1.7M *MEDIAN* net worth - is insane

"Submissions of both empirical and theoretical papers, from scholars who are early in their careers, from researchers with and without NBER affiliations, and from scholars who are members of groups that are underrepresented in the economics profession, are welcome." Submit your paper!

My only contribution to the news today is that I took a girl to see Mulholland Drive as a first date in high school. Dear readers, it was a poor choice.

Even Harvard M.B.A.s Are Struggling to Land Jobs The latest crop of elite business-school graduates is taking months to find new jobs.

Nice timing: This just came out in WSJ, and folks are hashing the same discussion in the comments on LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Gross

Text from the paper being discussed, by Ferraro et al (2005). It reads, "he behavioral assumptions and language that characterize economics influence theories and expectations about human behavior. These widely espoused and accepted theories, and the language they embody, then influence how people behave individually and the institutions they design as contexts for others’ behavior. Individual behavior and institutional designs create a reality that, in turn, reinforces beliefs in the validity of assumptions of economic theories."

Text from the paper being discussed, by Ferraro et al (2005). It reads, "We would expect to find different results in countries where the dominant version of economics is not imbued in the principles of the neoclassic orthodoxy. The experiments of Frank et al. (1993) provide some suggestive evidence. They compared the effect of two different types of economics classes: a class in microeconomics taught by a neoclassical economist and one taught by an institutional economist. The students in the institutional economist’s class did not exhibit the same increase in self-interested behavior found in the neoclassical economist’s class."

💯 agree. Pfeffer et al (2005) are arguing explicitly for the treatment effect, through socialization. I'm out of my expertise here, but my understanding is that the evidence is mixed. Gerlach (2017) for example calls for more (and better) research to disentangle. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Text from a paper by Ferraro, Pfeffer, and Sutton, titled, "Economics language and assumptions." The text reads, "Cadsby and Maynes (1998)found that economics and business students, compared to nurses, tended to move toward an inefficient free-riding equilibrium in an experiment using a threshold game. In an ultimatum game (e.g., Thaler, 1988), Carter and Irons (1991) found that student subjects who were economics majors tended to keep more of the resources for themselves than students who had declared a noneconomics major and were not enrolled in an economics course. Frank, Gilovich, and Regan (1993) found that economists defected more often in a prisoner's dilemma game and that economics professors were less likely than those from other disciplines to donate to charity. Frank and Schulze (2000) found that economists were more corruptible than others. In their experiment, students in a German university were asked to recommend a plumber for a film club from a set of offers that varied both by the price charged and by the amount the person would receive if the plumber they recommended was selected. Economics students were more likely to recommend a plumber that charged a higher price when they received more money for doing so. There is, then, a large and growing body of literature that suggests that economists and economics students act differently from others. Why?"

Text from the economist article being discussed. The text reads: "The stereotype of profit-maximisation is not entirely unfounded. One study by Daron Acemoglu, Alex Xi He and Daniel le Maire, three academics, shows that managers with business degrees are less likely to share profits with workers than their less commercially experienced peers. What are these folks like on weekends? Another paper from 2007 by Nicole Stephens, Hazel Markus and Sarah Townsend found that when compared with firefighters, MBA students were orders of magnitude more likely to be upset if a friend knowingly bought the same car as theirs."

FWIW, I think business schools are in trouble if the world (and our prospective students) believe that our product makes them bad people.

First image is from Fabrizio, Pfeffer, and Sutton (2005). journals.aom.org/doi/10.5465/...

I think it's remarkable how quickly Google went from helping users find information to "provide any answer as fast as possible."