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Conventional wisdom suggests that IT helps managers supervise more subordinates but is this true for all managers? In this paper, I study how manager communication requirements affect the reorganization of hospital divisions after IT adoption.

We seek to address the debate of whether government funding spurs entrepreneurial activity by exploring the nuances of this activity in terms of success or failure to raise sufficient funding to move beyond the ideation stage.

Echo chambers are a phenomenon at the intersection of social network structure and language. We develop via a formal model that leverages this to develop the partial endogeneity of language to network structure, and propose a network shock as an intervention that online communities may undertake to disrupt extremist speech. We test the predictions of the model via a natural experiment in an online community on reddit.com, and find strong evidence that the network shock induced by the natural experiment is successful in breaking up hate speech.

In this research, I examine how competitor performance affects a focal provider's performance on a digital platform in the context of the digital music streaming industry. Using quasi-exogenous demand shocks to competitors, I find that, on average, competitor demand expansion has a positive effect on provider performance, and that more popular competitors generate larger positive spillovers than less popular, niche competitors.

Highlights from Future Assembly 2018 Highlights from Future Assembly 2018 Participants during the Nokia case taught by Professor Karim Lakhani. The question? Who in this room has owned a Nokia phone? Professor Ariel Stern during her flash talk, “Biomarkers, analytics, and the data-driven future of precision medicine.” Participants digging further in to the flash talk topics. […]