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Thank you for asking me how I am doing. I am not well. Here is why:
▪️The area affected by the Turkish/Syrian #earthquake is the size of the entire United Kingdom.
▪️ In #Türkiye alone, 16,000 people are dead and over 200,000 under rubbles, probably dead or dying.
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This is a great paper and well-executed study on the impact of antitrust intervention on platform complements. I recommend a) reading it, and b) taking ten seconds to vote for it at the link below
Honored to share that my paper with
@rkatila1 on #platform#antitrust is a finalist in the Economics category at the #AntitrustWritingAwards. There is a Reader's Choice Award for which we would appreciate your support! You can vote for us here: https://t.co/khgwKbjR3y
Is there an economic reason billionaires end up owning sports teams, vs other (conglomerate) owners? Or any recommended reading on the economics of pro sports?
Thrilled to see our phenomenal 1st year PhD student Hilary Mahar crush it in her very first academic conference, delivering virtually to a packed (in-person) room at the @USASBE "Driven by Dreams" entrepreneurship conference @BUQuestrom
@mah_kaa @k_mcelheran @InnovateBU@BU_Tweets@jonlevyBU@BUQuestrom@klakhani@mah_kaa The technology is the same as a commercial unit, but cheaper and typically far higher throughput. The last part makes the use case slightly different; the logical application here is in crowded social spaces like classes where a small unit would have little impact
Heyo! What a cool event. 9 amazing students turned out in the rain to make miniature dorm-room #corsirosenthalbox air purifiers, play with tape, and learn about user innovation.
Thanks to the amazing @innovateBU BuildLab for hosting! @bu_tweets@jonlevyBU@BUQuestrom
@k_mcelheran @InnovateBU@BU_Tweets@jonlevyBU@BUQuestrom@klakhani The current movement was launched by two air quality experts re-inventing or rediscovering this approach early in the pandemic (hence "Corsi-Rosenthal box"). It then scaled through the community. So overall, I think its a bit "user", a bit "low cost", and some "grassoots" :-)
@k_mcelheran @InnovateBU@BU_Tweets@jonlevyBU@BUQuestrom@klakhani So folks have been making filter boxes for years for use in wood shops, smoke zones, etc. I see this as a classic "users innovate to meet own needs b/c existing products don't work" a la von Hippel, etc. 1/2
This is very cool. I’m honored to be included in @PoetsandQuants’ Best Undergrad Professors list. Thank you to all of my students, mentors, and colleagues who nominated me and supported me along the way. I'm grateful to do what I do.
BU Questrom Professor Douglas Hannah is one of @PoetsAndQuants top 50 undergraduate professors of 2022. Congrats on a well-deserved honor! https://t.co/vDhGx9LcWC @dphannah
I love this story, as it highlights how even a simple change (it’s just a box!) can actually represent a radical reframing of an idea, and can generate controversy to match
Such a radical redrawing meets a lot of resistance - as Daly discovered while working at the World Bank in the 1990s. Here's a great story he told about commenting on drafts of the WB's major 1992 report Development and Environment. Some pictures turn out to be too powerful...
While I design most of my own exercises, sometimes classics like the Marshmallow Challenge really are the best. This year, 16/17 teams ended up learning the hard way (and will remember) about failing to test hidden assumptions (spoiler: marshmallows are really heavy)
As some of you know, I started a major research program on pandemic-era grassroots innovation. I've got a talk this weekend - if you're in Boston, c'mon by for inspiring stories of folks who stepped up, and thoughts about how we can be ready for the future @BUQuestrom@BU_Tweets