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Rule 14a-8 in Practice
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Rule 14a-8 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 governs the circumstances under which a shareholder may include a proposal in a public company's proxy statement for a vote...
SEC Comment Letter on Semiannual Reporting
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I write in my individual academic capacity to comment on the Commission's proposal to permit eligible reporting companies to file a semiannual report on a new Form 10-S in lieu...
The Meridian Institute Grows Up
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The London campus opened in September 2031 with 47 students and a space in Clerkenwell that had been a design studio and before that a printworks and before that something nobody...
The Birth of the Meridian Institute
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January 14, 2029. Delaware has just registered the Meridian Institute as a public benefit corporation (PBC) and it exists now, legally, as a thing in the world. PBC. Not a...
The Carver School of Business
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Dean Sandra Okafor had appointed the working group in October. It had taken four months to schedule the first meeting because Professor Delacroix in Finance had a teaching...
The End of the Artisanal Paper
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Academic knowledge production is undergoing a structural transformation. Artificial intelligencehas not merely accelerated scholarship—it has changed its organizational form. The...
Production of Knowledge in Human-Machine Collaborations
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Whether human-machine collaborations can produce genuine knowledge, knowledge with the same epistemic validity as that produced without intelligent machines, is one of the...
Deck 2: Business School Academics
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AI and the Future of Academic Knowledge Production. What Organizational Form Makes the Difference. By Robert G. Eccles · Oxford Saïd Business School
Deck 1: Epistemic Circuit
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The Epistemic Circuit. Knowledge Production in Human-Machine Collaborations. The Hybrid Intelligent Team as Epistemological Form. By Robert G. Eccles · Oxford Saïd Business School
May 7-9, 2026 Exchange with Gemini Pro
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Prompt from Claude on May 6, 2026 Version of POK/HIT PaperYou have participated in this research program as a dialogue partner in two Socratic exchanges— as Theaetetus in Piece 6...
The Human Burden in AI Collaboration
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AI capabilities are improving rapidly, but the coordination burden required to use those capabilities effectively remains largely human—and may increase in complex, longhorizon...
A Note on Path Congruence in Non-Deterministic Systems
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We consider non-deterministic systems in which multiple transformation paths may connect the same pair of states. We isolate a structural configuration in which an equivalence...
Producing the Anti-ESG Ecosystem Case Study FINAL
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On April 7, 2026, Robert G. Eccles (Bob), a retired professor from Harvard Business School, logged on to ChatGPT to write the methodological appendix for his book “The Anti-ESG...
Producing the Anti-ESG Ecosystem TN
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This case documents how Robert G. Eccles, a retired Harvard Business School professor, produced the book “The Anti-ESG Ecosystem: Implications for U.S. Climate Policy” using a...
Hybrid Intelligence Teams: A Theoretical Framework for Human–AI Collaboration in Knowledge Work
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This paper develops a theory of Hybrid Intelligence Teams (HITs)-persistent groups composed of multiple humans and multiple AI agents working interdependently to accomplish knowledge-intensive tasks. We argue that traditional models of human teams, humanautomation systems, and multi-agent AI are…