Bek Khoshimov

Assistant Professor of Business, Organizations and Society @NYUAbuDhabi. Previously: @uwmadison

[Bek Khoshimov @bkhoshim]

New paper in @OrganizationSci with Andy El-Zayaty & Martin Ganco! We find that vague language in startup pitches usually reduces investor interest—unless the founders have strong communication-related human capital. In those hands, strategic vagueness can actually boost appeal.

[Econometrica @ecmaEditors]

Why do richer economies have more very large firms? This paper shows that the upper tail of the firm size distribution thickens as economies grow. A model of idea search explains why, showing how growth itself can produce rising concentration.
https://t.co/ocOxbeV3Ww

[Rafael Izbicki @rizbicki]

A student recently told me: "Apparently, you can now use LaTeX locally on your computer. We don't need Overleaf anymore."

The old becomes new again, helped along by Overleaf becoming really slow.

[Oliver Kim @oliverwkim]

Think this is the year I finally finish Ulysses

[Peter Hull @instrumenthull]

OLS

[The Mind Scourge @TheMindScourge]

New York City accumulates skyscrapers like sedimentary layers

The colors reveal the age of construction

[Bek Khoshimov @bkhoshim]

@orgRem The Mill never misses!

And to your point, people in real estate say "coffee shops sell apartments." Maybe they actually sell cities?

[sam @sam_d_1995]

the best part of leaving New York is the feeling you get when you come back

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

Sitting by a window is associated with significantly improved cognitive performance.

[David ImeI @DurvidImel]

2026

[Bek Khoshimov @bkhoshim]

@KhoaVuUmn Madison, WI?

[Bek Khoshimov @bkhoshim]

@iizzatabdurasul @Behzod08 Toshkent

[Eni Iljazi @eni_iljazi]

abstract of the day

[Monica Marks @MonicaLMarks]

The opportunity to teach a lot of scholarship & first generation college students, like me, was my #1 reason to teach at NYUAD.

I’ve never seen smart students from such diverse global, religious, political & class backgrounds in small-sized classrooms. That part is fantastic!

[David Harrison @DaveHarrisonGo]

I think this ceiling is one of the most striking I’ve seen anywhere on my travels. It’s in the Ulugh Beg Madrasa in Samarkand.

[Sam Rosenfeld @sam_rosenfeld]

the modern professor's feeling of warm relief and gratitude at encountering artisanal, human-crafted bad writing while grading papers

[Orel Beilinson @BeilinsonOrel]

Uzbekistan is full of language schools. The government incentivizes taking proficiency exams. The results are visible. Even in some smaller towns, you can find waiters fluent in languages like Japanese and Korean. Samarkand's Chinese learning scene seems particularly strong.

[Bek Khoshimov @bkhoshim]

@Afinetheorem Tashkent modernism is understated, but excellent.

Unfortunately it is very rare in modern buildings.

[Ben Golub @ben_golub]

Your daily partial equilibrium tweet.

[Florian Tramèr @florian_tramer]

Sometimes you get reviews so bad that you know they can only have been human generated