The Carver School of Business
The email arrived on a Tuesday in February 2029, as most consequential things at Alderton did, buried between a reminder about the faculty parking lottery and a message from Facilities about the…
The Artisanal Paper Is Dead
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. Consider two scenes. Scene one: Two accounting professors at lunch. One mentions an empirical puzzle she noticed in earnings announcements. The other asks a...
The Bipartisan Opposition to AI Data Centers
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. The archetypes of the left and the right don’t agree on much. Climate is often cited as a prime example, although I should emphasize this is the archetypes,...
The End of the Artisanal Paper
The End of the Artisanal Paper Academic knowledge production is undergoing a structural transformation. Artificial intelligencehas not merely accelerated scholarship—it has changed its organizational form. The traditionalcottage-industry model, one scholar...