Fabian Sting

Supply chain professor @WISOUniCologne and @RSMErasmus. Teach, research, and practice strategy and innovation.

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

AI can help learning... when it isn't a crutch.

There are now multiple controlled experiments showing that students who use AI to get answers to problems hurts learning (even though they think they are learning), but that students who use AI as a tutor perform better on tests.

[MIT Sloan Management Review @mitsmr]

Your primary objective may be to improve absolute performance by boosting operational efficiency, expanding profits, or elevating customer satisfaction. https://t.co/LEasVOit97

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

Went down a rabbit hole for cross-industry innovations (when one industry borrows from another).

Here are 8 gems.

1. James Dyson made a bagless vacuum after seeing how sawmills used cyclone force to eject sawdust.

[Michael Park @michae1park]

Super thrilled to share my first pub, which has landed on the cover of Nature! We document the decline of disruptive science and technology across several decades in 45 million papers and 3.9 million patents. https://t.co/e9nymaz4IY

[Fabian Sting @fast1005]

Here is a link to a collection of studies on the (early and later career) operations management background of CEOs I found quite useful.
https://t.co/02zX5SaJiw

[Fabian Sting @fast1005]

Need an extra motivation for #operations and #supplychain classes? Think they have become even more relevant after this 2019 study.
"Surprisingly, operations was the functional starting point for most of the F100 CEOs, with 25% beginning their careers in an operational role."

[Kimberly Whitler @KimWhitler]

Is marketing, operations, finance, or engineering the best path to CEO ? A new study provides the answer --> https://t.co/4EPyEbAifo @topofmba @TopRightPartner @Reuters @TopMBA @ForbesCMO @PoetsAndQuants @WarrenBuffett @Columbia_Biz @Columbia @VanderbiltOwen @IUKelleyCareers

[Fabian Sting @fast1005]

@JohnHolbein1 relevant

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

People are happier to help than we expect.

Data: we overestimate how inconvenienced they’ll feel—and underestimate how valued they’ll feel.

Asking isn't always a burden. It's often an opportunity to help others feel capable and useful.

Seeking help is an expression of trust.

[Harvard Business Review @HarvardBiz]

"Digital kaizen" enables knowledge-intensive firms to better leverage the experience and insights of frontline employees. https://t.co/3PE3NI4Pjo

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Good middle managers matter a lot!

Who the plant manager is in car factory explains more of the productivity difference between plants than who the CEO of the company is. Replacing a bottom quartile manager with a top quartile one decreases hours needed to build a car by 30%.

[Strategic Organization Design group @SOD_unit]

Want to learn computational social science methods? Then this could be a valuable resource for you! 👩‍💻

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Very cool way to use the wisdom of the crowd, without the crowd.

If you are trying to estimate a number, make two guesses, a normal one, and one taking the perspective of someone you disagree with. The average of those is more accurate than other methods. https://t.co/NzKdR4I3OR

[Fabian Sting @fast1005]

@AgatzN You admonish/stop when cameras-on drop below x%, if ever?

[Fabian Sting @fast1005]

Perhaps an old topic, but still relevant. The more students turn on their cameras in #onlineteaching, the more engaged and motivated teachers will be, and the better are discussions. Any hacks or tricks to get more cameras on? Asking for a friend #zoomfatigue

[Fabian Sting @fast1005]

@HelgeKlapper @mirkobenischke Nice idea, leveraging the power of path dependency!

[TIMES_INFORMS @TIMES_INFORMS]

#TIMESpaperOfTheMonth: Product designs similar to past designs, but different from contemporary ones are more valued. Read the paper to find out! #productDesign #design #designPatents #innovation @EmoryGoizueta @hkust @ImperialBiz

[Fabian Sting @fast1005]

Digital Supply Chain Innovation: Start thinking about the "why", then about the "how ". Thanks to Connectedworld for assembling various supply chain scholars' views.
#innovation #digital #supplychain #industry40 #digitaltransformation
https://t.co/UdZQK60G83

[Oguz A. Acar @oguzaliacar]

Brilliant paper documenting cool field experimental evidence on negativity bias in science funding: “…evaluators lower their scores by more points after seeing scores more critical than their own rather than raise them after seeing more favorable scores….”

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Classes that actively involved students upped test scores in a Harvard class by 33%... but students thought they were learning more from non-active lectures.

The paradox; being challenged results in learning, but it also shows us how little we know, which makes us feel ignorant

[Werner Reinartz @ReinartzWerner]

We are offering a position for doctoral studies in #retailing and #marketing strategy. The @UniCologne is strongly #research-oriented and our group in the marketing area is internationally quite visible.
Application deadline Dec. 31, 2021.
https://t.co/S0bt8SM10d