Yael Grushka-Cockayne
@grushkay.bsky.social
Senior Associate Dean of Professional Degree Programs and Professor of Business Administration at the Darden School of Business
Listening to a legend Ken Ono at the LaCross Institute for Ethical Artificial Intelligence in Business
University of Virginia Darden School of Business University of Virginia
University of Virginia Darden School of Business University of Virginia
October 17, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Listening to a legend Ken Ono at the LaCross Institute for Ethical Artificial Intelligence in Business
University of Virginia Darden School of Business University of Virginia
University of Virginia Darden School of Business University of Virginia
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Current and former OpenAI employees plan to sell about $6 billion worth of shares to investors including SoftBank, Dragoneer and Thrive Capital.
OpenAI Staffers to Sell $6 Billion in Stock to SoftBank, Other Investors
SoftBank, Dragoneer and Thrive Capital are set to buy OpenAI shares from current and former employees at a $500 billion valuation.
bloom.bg
August 17, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Current and former OpenAI employees plan to sell about $6 billion worth of shares to investors including SoftBank, Dragoneer and Thrive Capital.
Join me and George Wu, Prof. of Behavioral Science U of Chicago Booth School of Business, on Jul 16 from 8am-9am (PT), for a joint SDP and the DAS Webinar: on “Risk Matters Less When Options Differ Qualitatively”
Register here: www.decisionprofessionals.com/events/event...
Register here: www.decisionprofessionals.com/events/event...
July 2025 Webinar
Society of Decision Professionals (SDP) and the Decision Analysis Society (DAS) invites you to joi
www.decisionprofessionals.com
July 14, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Join me and George Wu, Prof. of Behavioral Science U of Chicago Booth School of Business, on Jul 16 from 8am-9am (PT), for a joint SDP and the DAS Webinar: on “Risk Matters Less When Options Differ Qualitatively”
Register here: www.decisionprofessionals.com/events/event...
Register here: www.decisionprofessionals.com/events/event...
***Hot Paper of the Day****
🔥 📜
My colleague Rupert Freeman's Management Science paper studies the problem of designing incentive-compatible forecasting competitions, in which a single prize must be awarded to the winning forecaster.
Read more about it here: pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/...
🔥 📜
My colleague Rupert Freeman's Management Science paper studies the problem of designing incentive-compatible forecasting competitions, in which a single prize must be awarded to the winning forecaster.
Read more about it here: pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/...
Incentive-Compatible Forecasting Competitions | Management Science
pubsonline.informs.org
May 19, 2025 at 1:10 PM
***Hot Paper of the Day****
🔥 📜
My colleague Rupert Freeman's Management Science paper studies the problem of designing incentive-compatible forecasting competitions, in which a single prize must be awarded to the winning forecaster.
Read more about it here: pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/...
🔥 📜
My colleague Rupert Freeman's Management Science paper studies the problem of designing incentive-compatible forecasting competitions, in which a single prize must be awarded to the winning forecaster.
Read more about it here: pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/...
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Danny's last surprise.
I had long considered myself in favor of Swiss-style assisted suicide laws, but this story stirred up all sorts of contrary, complicated feelings.
I had long considered myself in favor of Swiss-style assisted suicide laws, but this story stirred up all sorts of contrary, complicated feelings.
Essay | The Last Decision by the World’s Leading Thinker on Decisions
Shortly before Daniel Kahneman died last March, he emailed friends a message: He was choosing to end his own life in Switzerland. Some are still struggling with his choice.
www.wsj.com
March 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Danny's last surprise.
I had long considered myself in favor of Swiss-style assisted suicide laws, but this story stirred up all sorts of contrary, complicated feelings.
I had long considered myself in favor of Swiss-style assisted suicide laws, but this story stirred up all sorts of contrary, complicated feelings.
Remember clubhouse?
March 12, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Remember clubhouse?
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The wisdom of forced diversity in crowds
Extremized crowds (through high and low anchoring) exhibit increased mean individual error and predictive diversity, yet also produce smaller collective errors, research finds:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Extremized crowds (through high and low anchoring) exhibit increased mean individual error and predictive diversity, yet also produce smaller collective errors, research finds:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
March 11, 2025 at 5:35 PM
The wisdom of forced diversity in crowds
Extremized crowds (through high and low anchoring) exhibit increased mean individual error and predictive diversity, yet also produce smaller collective errors, research finds:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Extremized crowds (through high and low anchoring) exhibit increased mean individual error and predictive diversity, yet also produce smaller collective errors, research finds:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
I think Cher definitely can turn back time @nbcsnl.bsky.social
February 17, 2025 at 5:24 AM
I think Cher definitely can turn back time @nbcsnl.bsky.social
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Our snap judgements of people’s facial *traits* (not states) bias our understanding of their thoughts and feelings in daily interactions, research by @chujunlin.bsky.social et al suggests:
February 9, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Our snap judgements of people’s facial *traits* (not states) bias our understanding of their thoughts and feelings in daily interactions, research by @chujunlin.bsky.social et al suggests:
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Weather forecasting has gotten much better over time.
We underestimate how much weather forecasts have improved how societies run, produce food reliably, and protect themselves from disaster.
My article from last year on this topic:
ourworldindata.org/weather-fore...
We underestimate how much weather forecasts have improved how societies run, produce food reliably, and protect themselves from disaster.
My article from last year on this topic:
ourworldindata.org/weather-fore...
Weather forecasts have become much more accurate; we now need to make them available to everyone
A four-day forecast today is as accurate as a one-day forecast 30 years ago.
ourworldindata.org
February 6, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Weather forecasting has gotten much better over time.
We underestimate how much weather forecasts have improved how societies run, produce food reliably, and protect themselves from disaster.
My article from last year on this topic:
ourworldindata.org/weather-fore...
We underestimate how much weather forecasts have improved how societies run, produce food reliably, and protect themselves from disaster.
My article from last year on this topic:
ourworldindata.org/weather-fore...
I think Uber has a different measurement of min
January 28, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I think Uber has a different measurement of min
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We cannot make decisions outwith a frame of reference—which has two key components: the decision context and our own psychological context (both shaping each other). That is why Decision Making is always personal (and subjective): https://buff.ly/40enXaT
January 14, 2025 at 11:35 AM
We cannot make decisions outwith a frame of reference—which has two key components: the decision context and our own psychological context (both shaping each other). That is why Decision Making is always personal (and subjective): https://buff.ly/40enXaT
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An incredible opportunity for the right person:
The Santa Fe Institute is seeking applications for full-time resident faculty positions at all academic levels
For me, this has been the best possible job ever.
More info here: santafe.edu/about/jobs/r...
The Santa Fe Institute is seeking applications for full-time resident faculty positions at all academic levels
For me, this has been the best possible job ever.
More info here: santafe.edu/about/jobs/r...
sfiscience
SFI seeks applications for full-time, 12-month resident faculty positions at all academic levels.
santafe.edu
January 8, 2025 at 7:39 PM
An incredible opportunity for the right person:
The Santa Fe Institute is seeking applications for full-time resident faculty positions at all academic levels
For me, this has been the best possible job ever.
More info here: santafe.edu/about/jobs/r...
The Santa Fe Institute is seeking applications for full-time resident faculty positions at all academic levels
For me, this has been the best possible job ever.
More info here: santafe.edu/about/jobs/r...
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If you missed this on NYE, California got its first Class XI well approved by the EPA. Who cinched it? An oil and gas producer's point source CCS project in Kern County.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
California’s First Carbon Capture and Storage Project Approved by the EPA
California received permission to move forward with a project that would inject carbon dioxide into the state’s deep rock formation using a technology that has long tantalized the fossil fuel industry...
www.bloomberg.com
January 6, 2025 at 7:28 PM
If you missed this on NYE, California got its first Class XI well approved by the EPA. Who cinched it? An oil and gas producer's point source CCS project in Kern County.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Hard agree!
I read a lot of social science papers on AI and my conclusion is that there are far too few people rigorously studying the implications (good & bad) of LLMs across society & work
Computer science is producing a tide of good AI work. Economics, management, psych, & sociology etc. need to do the same
Computer science is producing a tide of good AI work. Economics, management, psych, & sociology etc. need to do the same
January 6, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Hard agree!
So Silo is basically an ad for ChatGPT?
January 4, 2025 at 2:50 AM
So Silo is basically an ad for ChatGPT?
what are the key items to prepare when faced with a snow forecast?
January 3, 2025 at 3:52 PM
what are the key items to prepare when faced with a snow forecast?
I am enjoying @netflix.com Black (!!) Doves, but cannot hear Ben Whishaw without thinking of Paddington.
December 29, 2024 at 4:06 AM
I am enjoying @netflix.com Black (!!) Doves, but cannot hear Ben Whishaw without thinking of Paddington.
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Kahneman would resist so long as he can't see it because wysiati
Thaler would resist so long as it is stored with the cashews
Zimbardo would write up how he resisted, but it would be fake
Freud would be torn, but Id would win
Mischel would pretend it was a picture of a ring, but would give in
Thaler would resist so long as it is stored with the cashews
Zimbardo would write up how he resisted, but it would be fake
Freud would be torn, but Id would win
Mischel would pretend it was a picture of a ring, but would give in
name a famous psychologist who would resist the One Ring
December 25, 2024 at 7:05 PM
Kahneman would resist so long as he can't see it because wysiati
Thaler would resist so long as it is stored with the cashews
Zimbardo would write up how he resisted, but it would be fake
Freud would be torn, but Id would win
Mischel would pretend it was a picture of a ring, but would give in
Thaler would resist so long as it is stored with the cashews
Zimbardo would write up how he resisted, but it would be fake
Freud would be torn, but Id would win
Mischel would pretend it was a picture of a ring, but would give in
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Women leave academia at higher rates than men at every career stage, and attrition is especially high among three groups: tenured faculty, women in non-STEM fields, and women employed at less prestigious institutions, a #ScienceAdvances analysis finds.
Gender and retention patterns among U.S. faculty
Women faculty are more likely to leave their jobs than men, most often due to workplace climate, rather than work-life balance.
scim.ag
December 23, 2024 at 3:07 PM
Women leave academia at higher rates than men at every career stage, and attrition is especially high among three groups: tenured faculty, women in non-STEM fields, and women employed at less prestigious institutions, a #ScienceAdvances analysis finds.
Wow, what just happened? Sora is now available and amazing.
Within seconds, Sora is helping me imagine the University of Virginia Darden School of Business classroom of the future.
Within seconds, Sora is helping me imagine the University of Virginia Darden School of Business classroom of the future.
December 13, 2024 at 7:41 PM
Wow, what just happened? Sora is now available and amazing.
Within seconds, Sora is helping me imagine the University of Virginia Darden School of Business classroom of the future.
Within seconds, Sora is helping me imagine the University of Virginia Darden School of Business classroom of the future.
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NBER Digital Economics and AI meeting at Stanford. Deadline December 16. www.nber.org/conferences/...
Digital Economics and AI Meeting, Spring 2025
www.nber.org
December 6, 2024 at 1:48 PM
NBER Digital Economics and AI meeting at Stanford. Deadline December 16. www.nber.org/conferences/...
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Me rereading my own code from 2 months ago:
December 7, 2024 at 3:56 AM
Me rereading my own code from 2 months ago:
Stunning and goose-bumps inducing night at the University of Virginia
December 7, 2024 at 11:45 AM
Stunning and goose-bumps inducing night at the University of Virginia
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Excellent talk by Larry Samuelson asking the tough questions to economists at the Econometric Society Australasia Meeting:
“How do we think about welfare economics if utility is adaptive?”
“How do we think about welfare economics if utility is adaptive?”
December 4, 2024 at 12:06 PM
Excellent talk by Larry Samuelson asking the tough questions to economists at the Econometric Society Australasia Meeting:
“How do we think about welfare economics if utility is adaptive?”
“How do we think about welfare economics if utility is adaptive?”