Andrew Foley

Assistant Professor @NYUStern @Sternmgmt | PhD @CornellMBA | #Entrepreneurship, #Networks, & #Innovation. Flutist & dog dad.

[Andrew Foley @afoley89]

What a special seminar! Thank you so much, @ASBedu_official for having me back to give a talk last week. ASB will always be a special community for me, and I'm honored to return as faculty. So great to see all of you!

#management #research #entrepreneurship #socialnetworks

[Andrew Foley @afoley89]

One of the many exciting initiatives that makes OMT "the place to be"! If you're an OMT member heading to AOM this year, we have some funding available to help support your travel and registration for the conference.

[LINK]: https://t.co/krskcDFSsI

@AOMConnect @AOM_OMT

[Andrew Foley @afoley89]

Interesting list by @WSJ . I like the idea of trying to measure #entrepreneurial success as a function of contributions to society.

https://t.co/y0KausOgm2

#entrepreneurship

[Andrew Foley @afoley89]

Excited to be joining the Executive Committee for
@AOM_OMT! I'll be joining as Social Media Chair in August.

Thank you to everyone for your confidence - I look forward to contributing to the efforts that make OMT "The Place to Be"!

https://t.co/Y6MRoCHxE5
@AOMConnect

[Andrew Foley @afoley89]

Broadly generalizable to other fields, too 👏 💡 🤓

[Paul Novosad @paulnovosad]

An Econ PhD student at the 20th ranked program who is working on stuff they are passionate about will have a better job market than one at MIT who's been doing nothing but phd-app-maxxing since undergrad.

People get confused by this because they don't observe *how* successful people came about their insane knowledge bases. It wasn't by relentlessly grinding away at stuff because they had to.

They look at Scott Kominers and say "if i grind and learn as much math as he did, i will be successful." You can't! *You* can't learn as much math as Kominers because he gets energized by configuration results for type ii lattices. You will burn out if you try to do it this way.

You cannot, through grind alone, learn more about the economics of cities than Glaeser, or about how to maximize a value function than Acemoglu.

Research careers are long. Most people give up and stop working on research (graph is share of elite PhD graduates with at least one publication in year X after graduation).

If you're starting a PhD, you're presumably doing it to have a successful 40-year research career. The number one factor in whether that happens is not which program you get into, it's whether you find a research angle that energizes you enough to push through the endless barriers an academic career throws in your path.

This is why a lot of the received wisdom around PhD applications is wrong. If you're 100% consumed by the predoc rat race already, it's going to be a long, hard road ahead.

Obv you still have to do admissions, you should study a lot for the GRE, sigh it seems like taking real analysis is probably worth it.

But spending time on the things that energize you about economics is a no-brainer, whether it's policy, or blogging, or whatever, you gotta do the things that light your fire and make you want to be on this road.

[Andrew Foley @afoley89]

Humans in the film draw boundaries w/ machines. David discovers "Flesh Fairs", branded as "celebrations of life", where robots are destroyed before crowds. Today, boundaries are being drawn between humans and AI so that output from the two can coexist: https://t.co/FtmeUWIImn

[Andrew Foley @afoley89]

Artificial Intelligence (2001) was one of my favorite films as a kid. Today, I’m struck by how relevant many of its themes feel - definitely worth a watch! I'll share a few overlaps between the movie's core themes and recent debates below 👇

[Andrew Foley @afoley89]

David is analogized to Pinocchio throughout, and he encounters situations that only "real boys" should be able to navigate: love, loss, imagination, and myth. Today, we attempt to define which capabilities are uniquely human: https://t.co/uNH49BSXcl , https://t.co/p9NeB9mXRu

[Andrew Foley @afoley89]

It was such a pleasure to present some of my work at SERC @SmithSchool . Such a sharp, constructive, and collaborative community - leaving with lots of great ideas.

Thanks to the organizers for bringing us all together!

#entrepreneurship #venturecapital #research

[Andrew Foley @afoley89]

Fantastic Friday at the @EastCoastDocCon (ECDC) @Columbia_Biz

Great to return as a faculty discussant after years as a doctoral participant, esp to engage with cutting-edge OT/Strategy work.

Thanks so much to the organizers & authors!

@Columbia @NYUStern @Nikhil_Dilip

[Abhishek Nagaraj @abhishekn]

This IMO has to be top 10 most significant charts of all time. Once you see it, you can’t unsee it.

[Andrew Foley @afoley89]

Talk about worlds colliding.

Had Akhil Aniff (Ember Fellowship, formerly @venture4america ) speak to my Strategy students @NYUStern about startup careers.

As a former VFA fellow, this one felt personal. Thanks, Akhil!

[Andrew Foley @afoley89]

Very cool

[Ben Golub @ben_golub]

Networks!!!!!!!!

[Andrew Foley @afoley89]

The common refrain is that "your network is your net worth". But, extending the analogy of a #network as a #portfolio, it's wroth remembering that some assets should be divested.

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

Having negative people in your life is associated with accelerated biological aging.

Cut out toxic people.

[Andrew Foley @afoley89]

Very excited for my first @ASAnews conference. I'll be presenting some ongoing work on multiplex exchanges across village economies in Thailand. Looking forward to meeting everyone there!

#ASA #research #economicsociology #sociology #emergingmarkets

[Andrew Foley @afoley89]

"Every society that sustains a sharp divide between its professed standards and its lived arrangements will produce people whose business is managing it."

Great essay on how #brokers facilitate wrongdoing. @nytimes

#networks #brokerage #epstein

https://t.co/VqYN817Ncg

[Kevin A. Bryan @Afinetheorem]

Since it is Friday afternoon, here on my office wall are my notes on how to get useful things done. To be clear, I am really bad at a lot of these, but I think a good set of rules!