BIG AI Agenda 2026 FINAL

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DAY 1: THURSDAY, APRIL 2
8:45AM
9:00AM
10:00AM
10:20AM
WELCOME & OPENING REMARKS: SINAN ARAL - DIRECTOR, MIT IDE
FIRESIDE CHAT | SALON MIT - 7TH FLOOR
Sinan Aral – Director, MIT IDE (Moderator)
Dr. Rumman Chowdhury – CEO & Founder Humane Intelligence Public Benefit Corporation
COFFEE BREAK | 7TH FLOOR
PARALLEL SESSIONS A-B-C-D
A: Negotiation &
Strategic Decisions
(DR 3, 6TH FLOOR)
Chair: Kehang Zhu
B: Agent Adoption &
Productivity
(SALON MIT, 7TH FLOOR)
Chair: Peyman Shahidi
C: Human-Agent
Collaboration
(DR 4, 6TH FLOOR)
Chair: Zezhen (Dawn) He
D: The Future of Work
(DR 5+6, 6TH FLOOR)
Chair: Hong-Yi TuYe
Advancing AI Negotiation: A
Large-Scale Autonomous
Competition Michelle Vaccaro
(MIT), Michael Caosun (MIT),
Harang Ju (Johns Hopkins),
Sinan Aral (MIT), Jared Curhan
(MIT)
What Is Your AI Agent Buying?
Evaluation, Biases, Model
Dependence, & Emerging
Implications for Agentic E-
Commerce Amine Allouah
(MyCustomAI), Omar Besbes
(Columbia), Josue D. Figueroa
(MyCustomAI), Yash Kanoria
(Columbia), Akshit Kumar (Yale)
The Latent Role of Open Models
in the AI Economy Frank Nagle
(MIT & The Linux Foundation),
Daniel Yue (Georgia Tech)
Putting AI on the Org Chart:
Evidence on Oversight and
Accountability Emma Wiles
(BU), Megan Hsu (BCG
Henderson Institute), Julie
Bedard (BCG Henderson
Institute), Matthew Kropp
(BCG Henderson Institute)
Choose Your Agent:
Tradeoffs in Adopting AI
Advisors, Coaches, and
Delegates in Multi-Party
Negotiation Kehang Zhu
(Harvard University, United
States), Nithum Thain (Google
DeepMind, United States),
Vivian Tsai (Google DeepMind,
United States), James Wexler
(Google DeepMind, United
States), Crystal Qian (Google
DeepMind, United States)
Coding Agents: Adoption,
Learning and Productivity
Effects Mert Demirer (MIT),
Leon Musolff (Wharton), Liyuan
Yang (MIT)
The Generative AI – Gender
Puzzle Manuel Hoffmann (UC
Irvine), Sam Boysel (The Linux
Foundation), Frank Nagle (MIT &
The Linux Foundation), Kevin Xu
(GitHub)
Data Integration and the
Accounting Labor Market
Effects of Generative AI
Chuck Downing (MIT)
Multisensory GenAI for Social
Media Marketing Success: An
Application of Multimodal
Deep Learning to Understand
the Sales Impact of
Influencer Authenticity
Xueming Luo (Temple
University), Simon Blanchard
(Georgetown)
The Adoption and Usage of AI
Agents: Early Evidence from
Perplexity Jeremy Yang
(Harvard), Noah Yonack
(Perplexity), Kate Zyskowski
(Perplexity), Denis Yarats
(Perplexity), Johnny Ho
(Perplexity), Jerry Ma
(Perplexity)
Generative AI, Human Expertise,
and Scaling Law Jie Zheng
(Purdue), Mohammad Rahman
(Purdue), Yu Jeffrey Hu (Purdue)
The Augmentation Trap:
Overreliance on Generative
AI and the Productivity–
Skill Trade-off Michael
Caosun (MIT), Sinan Aral (MIT)
Ask, clarify, optimize:
Human-LLM agent
collaboration for smarter
inventory control
Yaqi Duan (NYU), Yichun Hu
(Cornell), Jiashuo Jiang
(HKUST)
Generative AI and Firm
Productivity: Field
Experiments in Online Retail
Lu Fang (Zhejiang University),
Zhe Yuan (Zhejiang University),
Kaifu Zhang (Partner Company),
Dante Donati (Columbia
University), Miklos Sarvary
(Columbia University)
Prompt Adaptation as a
Dynamic Complement in
Generative AI Systems Eaman
Jahani (University of Maryland),
Benjamin S. Manning (MIT), Joe
Zhang (Stanford), Hong-Yi TuYe
(MIT), Mohammed Alsobay (MIT),
Christos Nicolaides (University of
Cyprus), Siddharth Suri (Microsoft
Research), David Holtz
(Columbia)
Distinguishing Human and
AI-Generated Creative
Performance in Hiring and
Talent Systems Yigal Rosen
(MIT & Ignis AI), Ilia Rushkin
(Ignis AI)

11:25AM
11:45AM
1:00PM
2:30PM
COFFEE BREAK | 7TH FLOOR
PANEL 1: "GENERATIVE AI IN PRACTICE: HOW IT’S RESHAPING
PRODUCTS, WORK, AND ORGANIZATIONS" | SALON MIT - 7TH FLOOR
Harang Ju - Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins (Moderator)
Nicole Immorlica - Researcher, Microsoft & Professor, Yale
Julia Neagu - CEO, Quotient AI (acquired by Databricks)
Ernie Tedeschi - Chief Economist, Stripe
H. James Wilson - Global Managing Director, Technology Research, Accenture
NETWORKING LUNCH | 7TH FLOOR
PARALLEL SESSIONS E-F-G-H
E: Consumer Choice
& Nudging
(DR 5+6, 6TH FLOOR)
Chair: Ehsan Valavi
F: Web & Content
Ecosystems
(SALON MIT, 7TH FLOOR)
Chair: Thomas Ma
G: Creativity &
Innovation
(DR 3, 6TH FLOOR)
Chair: Michelle Vaccaro
H: Domain
Applications
(DR 4, 6TH FLOOR)
Chair: Robin Na
A Program is Worth 1,000
Choices: Toward Scalable
Preference Elicitation with
Artificial Intelligence
Gili Rusak (Harvard), Benjamin
S. Manning (MIT), John J.
Horton (MIT)
Generative AI, Platform
Stances, and Content Creator
Behavior Hongxian Huang
(NYU), Runshan Fu (NYU),
Anindya Ghose (NYU)
Human Learning about AI
Raphael Raux (MIT Sloan), Bnaya
Dreyfuss (Harvard University)
GENI: GenAI-Assisted
Inference for Emotional
Language Xinyue Gina Zhao
(Temple University), Xueming
Luo (Temple University)
Innovative Nudges: Shaping
Copyright Compliance in
Generative AI Ehsan Valavi
(MIT), Vincent Lefrere (IMT_BS),
Dokyun Lee (Boston
University), Sinan Aral (MIT)
The Synthetic Consumer
Singularity of a “Dead
Internet”: Quantifying the
Collapse of Attention-Based
Business Models Under
High-Fidelity Agentic Noise
Mark Paes (Purdue)
Generative AI and Musical
Creativity Jose Oros (CMU),
Richard Randall (CMU), Rahul
Telang (CMU)
Voice AI in Firms: A Natural
Field Experiment on
Automated Job Interviews
Brian Jabarian (Booth), Luca
Henkel (Erasmus)
The Impact of Reasoning AI
on Consumer Purchases:
Evidence from an Online
Platform Field Experiment
Se Yan (Guanghua School of
Management, Peking
University), Han Zhong
(Rotman School of
Management, University of
Toronto), Zemin (Zachary)
Zhong (Rotman School of
Management, University of
Toronto), Wenyu Zhou
(International Business School,
Zhejiang University), Nitin
Mehta (Rotman School of
Management, University of
Toronto)
Does AI Displace or
Complement Web Traffic?
Christian Peukert (HEC
Lausanne), Carlo Regianni (JRC
European Commission),
Maximilian Schaefer (Institute
Mines-Telecom Business
School)
The Mean-Variance Innovation
Tradeoff in AI-Augmented
Evaluations Cyrille Grumbach
(ETH Zürich), Jacqueline Ng Lane
(Harvard Business School), Georg
von Krogh (ETH Zürich)
Simulating Customer
Behavior with GenAI:
Generative AI Powered
Digital Twin of Customer for
Insight, Experimentation,
and Personalization
Anjin Liu (Commonwealth
Bank of Australia), Jenny
Wang (Commonwealth Bank
of Australia), Harshal Kapoor
(Commonwealth Bank of
Australia), Shubham Arora
(Commonwealth Bank of
Australia), Alex Burton
(Commonwealth Bank of
Australia)
When Does Generative AI
Improve Service
Performance? Pedro C.
Pimentel (Corpay Brazil),
Fernando S. de Paiva (Corpay
Brazil), Herlani A. B. Junior
(Corpay Brazil)
Is AI “Eating” the Web?:
Studying Generative AI’s
Impact on Web Referral Traffic
Pranav Goel (Northeastern
University), Kai-Cheng Yang
(Binghamton University), David
Lazer (Northeastern University)
Beyond Productivity: Evaluating
the Hidden Costs of Generative
AI in Software Development
Edward Anderson (University of
Texas), Geoffrey Parker
(Dartmouth College), Burcu Tan
(University of New Mexico)
Limits of Literature-
Conditioned Large
Language Models for
Predicting Behavioral
Experiments Robin Na (MIT),
Duncan Watts (University of
Pennsylvania), Abdullah
Almaatouq (MIT)

3:35PM
4:00PM
5:00PM
5:15PM
6:30PM
COFFEE BREAK | 7TH FLOOR
FIRESIDE CHAT | SALON MIT - 7TH FLOOR
Sinan Aral – Director, MIT IDE (Moderator)
Rana el Kaliouby - Co-founder and Managing Partner, Blue Tulip Ventures
CLOSING
NETWORKING RECEPTION & POSTER SESSION | 7TH FLOOR
PLEASE SEE FINAL PAGES FOR FULL LIST OF POSTER PRESENTATIONS
Posters will be displayed throughout the reception area on the 7th floor, with authors
available to answer questions.
ADJOURN - SEE YOU TOMORROW! PLEASE BRING YOUR BADGE
DAY 2: FRIDAY, APRIL 3
8:30AM
8:45AM
WELCOME: HARANG JU - ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, JOHNS HOPKINS
PARALLEL SESSIONS I-J-K-L (CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE)
I: Simulating
Economic Behavior
(SALON MIT, 7TH FLOOR)
Chair: Anand Shah
J: Field Experiments
in Organizations
(DR 5+6, 6TH FLOOR)
Chair: Ruru Hoong
K: Reviews &
Recommendations
(DR 3, 6TH FLOOR)
Chair: Rui Zuo
L: Trust, Risk & Markets
(DR 4, 6TH FLOOR)
Chair: Michael Caosun
Learning from Synthetic Labs:
Language Models as Auction
Participants Anand Shah (MIT),
Kehang Zhu (Harvard),
Yanchen Jiang (Harvard),
Jeffrey G. Wang (Harvard), Arif
K. Dayi (Harvard), John J.
Horton (MIT, NBER), David C.
Parkes (Harvard)
The System’s Shadow: How AI
Personas Drive Psychological
and Physiological Outcomes
Leon Ciechanowski (Kozminski
University, Poland; MIT Center
for Collective Intelligence,
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, USA), Anna
Kovbasiuk (Kozminski
University), Konrad Sowa
(Kozminski University), Tamilla
Triantoro (Quinnipiac
University), Aleksandra
Przegalińska (Kozminski
University; CLJE at Harvard
University), Richard Freeman
(CLJE at Harvard University,
NBER)
How Much Should a
Conversational
Recommender System
Converse? Akshit Kumar (Yale),
Vahideh Manshadi (Yale),
Akhilesh Tumu (Yale)
Algorithmic Coordination,
System Coupling, and the
Fragility of Automated
Operations M. Dalbert Ma
(London Business School)
Chaining Tasks, Redefining
Work: A Theory of AI
Automation Mert Demirer
(MIT), John Horton (MIT &
NBER), Nicole Immorlica (Yale
& Microsoft), Brendan Lucier
(Microsoft), Peyman Shahidi
(MIT)
Physician Responses to
Patient Adoption of
Generative AI for Self-
Diagnosis: A Field Experiment
Zhichen Chen (BU Questrom),
Gordon Burtch (BU Questrom),
Bin Gu (BU Questrom), Yixuan
Liu (CEIBS)
AI Summary Overrepresents
Fake Reviews: Evidence from
Amazon Sihan Zhai (Harvard),
Andrew T. Ching (JHU)
Synthetic Harm?
Understanding the Effects of
Generative AI on Offline
Sexual Crime Siddharth
Bhattacharya (George Mason
University), Yun Young Hur
(Sungkyunkwan University), Gal
Oestreicher-Singer (Tel Aviv
University)

8:45AM
PARALLEL SESSIONS I-J-K-L (CONTINUED)
I: Simulating
Economic Behavior
(SALON MIT, 7TH FLOOR)
Chair: Anand Shah
J: Field Experiments
in Organizations
(DR 5+6, 6TH FLOOR)
Chair: Ruru Hoong
K: Reviews &
Recommendations
(DR 3, 6TH FLOOR)
Chair: Rui Zuo
L: Trust, Risk & Markets
(DR 4, 6TH FLOOR)
Chair: Michael Caosun
Interpreting and Steering LLM
Agents for Social Simulations
Jiayue Gaveal Fan (UC
Berkeley), Arul Murugan (UC
Berkeley), Shreyas Krishnan
(UC Berkeley), Abhishek
Nagaraj (UC Berkeley)
LLM-Power Advisory for
Smallholder Farmers:
Evidence from Field
Experiments in Philippines
and India Alp Sungu
(Wharton), Ali Aouad (MIT),
Niyazi Taneri (Cambridge),
Canberk Ucel (Essec)
Counterfactual LLM-based
Framework for Measuring
Rhetorical Style Jingyi Qiu
(University of Michigan), Hong
Chen (University of Michigan),
Zongyi Li (MIT)
The Emerging Market for
Intelligence: Pricing, Supply,
and Demand for LLMs
Mert Demirer (MIT), Andrey
Fradkin (Boston University),
Nadav Tadelis (Microsoft), Sida
Peng (Microsoft)
Asking a Chatbot: The Effect
of Conversational versus
Static AI Interfaces on Belief
Updating
Quang-Phuc Phung (MIT)
Choice as Signal: Designing AI
Adoption in Labor Market
Screening Pëllumb Reshidi
(Florida State University), Brian
Jabarian (University of Chicago
Booth School of Business)
From Metrics to Meaning:
Estimating User Feedback
Using LLM-Based Evaluation
Wanqun Zhao (Amazon), Adam
Patterson (Amazon), Cibi
Chakravarthy Senthilkumar
(Amazon), Yulong Wang
(Amazon), Anuraag Gupta
(Amazon), Shahriar Sadighi
(Amazon), Naumaan Nayyar
(Amazon)
Sustaining Critical Thinking in
Human-AI Collaboration
Dawn He (MIT), Renée Gosline
(MIT)
9:50AM
10:00AM
10:45AM
11:00AM
COFFEE BREAK | 7TH FLOOR
FIRESIDE CHAT | SALON MIT - 7TH FLOOR
Sinan Aral – Director, MIT IDE (Moderator)
Esther Dyson - Author, "Term Limits: Time and scale in the age of AI" (MIT Press, 2027)
COFFEE BREAK
SESSIONS M-N-O (CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE)
M: Media & Competition
(DR 3, 6TH FLOOR)
Chair: Laura Burkhauser
N: LLM Training & Alignment
(SALON MIT, 7TH FLOOR)
Chair: Annie Liang
O: Deployment & Enterprise
Implementation
(DR 5+6, 6TH FLOOR)
Chair: Mohsen Bahrami
The Endogenous Concentration of AI:
Predicting the Long-Run Market
Structure of the LLM Stack
Hanna Halaburda (NYU)
Is Bradley-Terry Model a Good Fit for
RLHF? Junyi Liu (Stanford), Puheng Li
(Stanford), Lihua Lei (Stanford)
Trust Is All That Matters – Confidence
Scoring for LLMs: Unlocking Straight
Through Processing and Estimating
Uncertainty in Document Processing
Puneet Samnani (Commonwealth Bank of
Australia), Prabin Dash (Commonwealth
Bank of Australia), Vidyasree Vankam
(Commonwealth Bank of Australia), Vibhu
Goenka (Commonwealth Bank of Australia)
Strategic Response of News Publishers
to Generative AI Hangcheng Zhao
(Rutgers University), Ron Berman
(University of Pennsylvania)
Robust AI Personalization Controls: The
Human Context Protocol Anand Shah
(MIT), Tobin South (Stanford), Talfan Evans
(Cursive.ai), Hannah Rose Kirk (Oxford),
Jiaxin Pei (Stanford), Andrew Trask
(OpenMined), E. Glen Weyl (Microsoft
Research), Michiel A. Bakker (MIT)
Agentic LLM for Large-Scale Optimization
Model Auto-Formulation with Applications
in Airline Revenue Management Kuo Liang
(SJTU), Yuhang Lu (NUS), Jianming Mao (ICL),
Shuyi Sun (CityUHK), Chunwei Yang
(CityUHK), Congcong Zeng (Purdue), Xiao Jin
(NUS), Hanzhang Qin (NUS), Ruihao Zhu
(Cornell), Chung-Piaw Teo (NUS)

11:00AM
SESSIONS M-N-O (CONTINUED)
M: Media & Competition
(DR 3, 6TH FLOOR)
Chair: Laura Burkhauser
N: LLM Training & Alignment
(SALON MIT, 7TH FLOOR)
Chair: Annie Liang
O: Deployment & Enterprise
Implementation
(DR 5+6, 6TH FLOOR)
Chair: Mohsen Bahrami
The Impact of LLM Adoption on Online
User Behavior Nicolas Padilla (London
Business School), H. Tai Lam (UCLA), Anja
Lambrecht (London Business School),
Brett Hollenbeck (UCLA)
Rethinking the Design of Reinforcement
Learning–Based Deep Research Agents
Yi Wan (Pokee AI), Jiuqi Wang (Pokee AI),
Liam Li (Pokee AI), Jinsong Liu (Pokee AI),
Ruihao Zhu (Pokee AI), Zheqing Zhu
(Pokee AI)
When Tools Don’t Fit: Generative AI
Adoption in Landscape Architecture
Jose A. Guridi (Cornell University), Cristobal
Cheyre (Cornell University)
Evaluating LLMs Under Concept Drift in
Production Manisha Arora (Google),
Siddarth Ranganathan (Microsoft)
Multi-Armed Bandits With Machine
Learning-Generated Surrogate Rewards
Wenlong Ji (Stanford), Yihan Pan
(Northwestern), Ruihao Zhu (Cornell), Lihua
Lei (Stanford)
The Impact of GenAI on Operations
Management Jobs, Functions, Salary, and
Performance Xinyue (Gina) Zhao (Temple
University), Xueming Luo (Temple University)
12:05PM
12:20PM
1:20PM
2:30PM
COFFEE BREAK | 7TH FLOOR
PANEL 2: "WHAT COMES NEXT? ECONOMIC FUTURES IN THE AGE OF
GENERATIVE AI" | SALON MIT - 7TH FLOOR
David Holtz - Assistant Professor, Columbia (Moderator)
Laura Burkhauser - CEO, Descript
Avi Goldfarb - Professor, University of Toronto
Annie Liang - Associate Professor, Northwestern
Rudina Seseri - Founder & Managing Partner, Glasswing Ventures
NETWORKING LUNCH | 7TH FLOOR
ADJOURN
POSTER PRESENTATIONS (CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE)
Work-in-Progress: A Preference-Based Evaluation Framework for Generative AI in Business Decision Support Firdavs Fozilov (University of
Southern California, Viterbi School of Engineering)
A Generative AI-Enhanced Meta-Science Tool for Predictive Analytics and Optimal Resource Allocation Jonah Lynch (Innovation Lens)
Experimentation in the Age of Generative AI: Evidence from ChatGPT Andrea Contigiani (OSU), Gavin Wang (UT Dallas), Jiayi Bao (Texas A&M)
Birth, Life, and Death of AI Models Aaron P. Kaye (Boston University & MIT), Kazimier Smith (MIT), Neil Thompson (MIT)
Can Managers Trust Machines? A Turing-Test-Inspired Experiment on GenAI Work, Decision-Making, and Automation in Supermarkets
Luiz Pinheiro (Positivo University), Zenaldo Rodrigues (Positivo University), Carla Marcolin (Federal University of Uberlandia)
Kelly-Conformal CVaR Control for Generative AI Safety Under Adversarial Distribution Shift Catherine Chen (Stanford University)
Layout-Empowered Clause Chunking for Efficient and Accurate Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Deepika Goel (Commonwealth
Bank of Australia), Dineshkumar Karuppasamy (Commonwealth Bank of Australia), Praveen Nair (Commonwealth Bank of Australia)
Can LLMs Capture Expert Uncertainty? A Comparative Analysis of Value Alignment in Ethnographic Qualitative Research Arina Kostina
(UCY), Marios Dikaiakos (UCY), Alejandro Porcel (Trinetra IM, Cambridge), Tassos Stassopoulos (Trinetra IM)

Generative AI's Emerging Influence on Corporate Board Decision-Making George O'Neill (JMSB, Concordia University)
Making Touch-and-Feel Visible in Online Retail Zhengrong Gu (Boston University), Daheng Fei (Google), Chi Zhang (Wayfair), Jerry Chen
(Wayfair)
Developing a Cost-Optimized and Model-Agnostic AI Triage Tool for Scalable Vertebral Fracture Detection in Public Health Systems: A
Systematic Architectural Search and Bayesian Optimization Approach for Sample-Efficient Deep Learning Pedro H. Brandão Simão
(University of the State of Rio de Janeiro)
When AI Pushes Your Buttons: Anger as a Mechanism of Persuasion in Conversations with AI Agents Zoe Robinson (Carnegie Mellon
University), Naama Ilany Tzur (Carnegie Mellon University), Ofir Turel (Melbourne University)
Co-creating Privacy Value through AI Prompt Literacy: The Role of Individuals’ Self-investment in GenAI Data Disclosure Johanna
Zimmermann (University of Cologne), Jan H. Schumann (University of Passau), Yakov Bart (Northeastern U.), Koen Pauwels (Northeastern U.)
Scaling the Returns to Automation: Algorithms, Robots and Organizational Learning Erdem Dogukan Yilmaz (INSEAD), Christian Peukert (HEC
Lausanne)
When Governance Becomes Velocity: Enterprise Agentic AI at Production Scale Himanshu Joshi (MIT), Shivani Shukla (University of San
Francisco)
Bellman Conformal Inference: Reliable Uncertainty Quantification for AI Forecasts Zitong Yang (Stanford), Lihua Lei (Stanford), Emmanuel
Candes (Stanford)
Human vs. Generative AI: A Comparison of Creative Strategies Yulin Yu (Northwestern), Anthony Shen (Harvard), Dawei Wang (HKU), Brian
Uzzi (Northwestern)
Hedonic Gain–Loss Framing in Risky Choice: Humans, LLMs, and Business Contexts J. Jobu Babin (University of Northern Iowa), Haritima
Chauhan (DePaul University)
Horizontal Differentiation on Content-Creation Platforms: Evidence from the Rise of Large Language Models Hongxian Huang (NYU),
Masakazu Ishihara (NYU), Anindya Ghose (NYU)
Servant Leadership as an Organizational Complement to AI: A Socially Embedded Perspective on Employee Well-Being Lin Xiu
(University of Minnesota), Dirk van Dierendonck (Erasmus University)
GenAI as a Driver of Organizational Transformation in Higher Education: Evidences from a Multiple Case Study Marjorie Abreu (Positivo
University), Jeferson Freitas (Positivo University), Luiz Pinheiro (Positivo University)
Exploring Human-AI interaction in Supply Chain: Experimental Evidence from an AI-Assisted Beer Game Satyajit Roy (IIM Bangalore),
Shalique MS (IIM Bangalore)
A Temporal-Multimodal Architecture for Grounded Generative AI over Enterprise Training Videos Vijay Neelakandan (Faster Frames Corp),
Rishi Maker (Faster Frames Corp)
Transforming GenAI from Inspiration to Decision-Making: Business Validation of Data-Augmented AI for Professional Design Richa Gupta
(MIT School of Architecture & Planning and MIT EECS)
Generative AI and Agentic Networked Production: New Business Models and Endogenous Transformation Paula Cobzaru (UAIC), Alexandru
Tugui (UAIC)

The Cognitive Silk Road: Unconventional Geopolitical Risks in the Proliferation of Chinese Open-Source LLMs Soumya Banerjee (University
of Cambridge)
The Effect of Reviewer Heterogeneity Between One-Time and Multi-Review Reviewers, Price Sentiment, and Pre-Purchase Information on
Star Ratings for Amazon Subscription Boxes Jikhan Jeong (Missouri University of Science and Technology)
Cost Transparency of Enterprise AI Adoption Soogand Alavi (Uiowa), Salar Nozari (Uiowa), Andrea Luangrath (Uiowa)
Exploring Implementation Challenges of Artificial Intelligence in Supply Chain Management Ujjwal Kumar (IIT Delhi), Ravi Shankar (IIT
Delhi), Jitender Madaan (IIT Delhi)
Synthetic Evidence in Finance: How GenAI Image Generating is Stress Testing Loan, Income, and Identity Verification Anjin Liu
(Commonwealth Bank of Australia), Luke Gerschwitz (Commonwealth Bank of Australia), Harshal Kapoor (Commonwealth Bank of Australia),
Shubham Arora (Commonwealth Bank of Australia), Alex Burton (Commonwealth Bank of Australia)
Leadership Philosophy Predicts AI Execution Success: An Initiative-Specific Diagnostic Framework Benjamin Black (Benjamin Black
Consulting)
Responsible Management and Skill Transformation in AI-Mediated Workplaces Banu Saatçi (University of Milan)
Uncovering Hidden Competitors with Generative AI Embeddings Abdullah Albizri (Montclair State University)
Running to Stand Still: When AI Removes Friction, Organizations Lose Signal JoAnna Vanderhoef (Vanderhoef Research)
Compliance-by-Design Generative AI at the Edge: A Memory-Centric Architecture for Managerial Decision Support and Organizational
Governance Fred Quijada (Purdue University)
Building a Culture of AI Security Dr. Keri Pearlson (MIT Sloan School), Dr. Jillian Kwong (MIT Sloan School)
Democratizing Generative AI for Sustainable Competitive Advantage: An Individual-Level Perspective Manuela Aparicio (NOVA
Information Management School, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal) Carlos J. Costa (ISEG, Univ. Lisboa), Joao Aparicio (IST, Univ. Lisboa)
Closing the Loop at the Edge: Leveraging Agentic AI and Systems Dynamics to Optimize High-Volume Circular Supply Chains
Shahriyar Rahmati (Reconext), Jennifer Foxworthy (HP)
A Privacy-Preserving, Globally Deployable Credit and Financial Discipline Scoring System Golan Marom (Goa Karma Tech Corp)
Why Generative AI Struggles to Create Business Value in Enterprises Tara von Metzen (Cirql One), Gregor Stoeckler (Cirql One)
Beyond Race-Conscious Admissions: Accountable AI as a Governance Strategy for Diversity, Scale, and Legal Risk Management in Higher
Education Tijl Peeters (Independent Researcher)
From Research to Redesign: Translating AI Economics into Organizational Strategy JoAnna Vanderhoef (Vanderhoef Research)
AI Infrastructure for Alternative Data Monetization: Evidence from Enterprise Deployments Across Media, Retail, and Fintech
Tim Keane (AltHub), Scott Hall (AltHub)
Algorithmic Governance of Credit: How AI-Driven Creditworthiness Assessment Reconfigures Power in India's Digital Lending Market
Nayan Pandya (IIT Bombay)

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