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Advancing AI negotiations: A large-scale autonomous negotiation competition

Jun, 2026

Sinan Aral | Director, MIT IDE; Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management

Harang Ju | Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University

Research Papers Blocking of Counter-partisan Accounts Drives Political Assortment on Twitter

Apr 2024

David Rand | Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management

Cameron Martel

Mohsen Mosleh

Qi Yang

Tauhid Zaman

Research Papers Automated Social Science: Language Models as Scientist and Subjects

John Horton | Associate Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management

Benjamin S. Manning

Kehang Zhu

Research Papers Reducing Interference Bias in Online Marketplace Experiments Using Cluster Randomization

Apr 2024

Sinan Aral | Director, MIT IDE; Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management

David Holtz | Assistant Professor, Columbia Business School

Felipe Lobel

Ruben Lobel

Inessa Liskovich

Research Papers Generative AI for Pro-Democracy Platforms

Mar 2024

Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland | Professor, MIT Media Lab

Lily L. Tsai

Alia Braley

Nuole Chen

José Ramón Enríquez

Anka Reuel

Research Papers Infrequent Activities Predict Economic Outcomes in Major American Cities

Mar 2024

Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland | Professor, MIT Media Lab

Research Papers How Users Drive Value in Two-Sided Markets: Platform Designs That Matter

Mar 2024

Marshall Van Alstyne | Professor, Questrom School of Business, Boston University

Zhou Zhou, Lingling Zhang

Research Papers The Grand Illusion: The Myth of Software Portability and Implications for ML Progress

Feb 2024

Neil Thompson | Research Scientist, MIT Sloan School of Management and CSAIL

Fraser Mince

Dzung Dinh

Jonas Kgomo

Sara Hooker

Research Papers How APIs Create Growth by Inverting the Firm

Dec 2023

Marshall Van Alstyne | Professor, Questrom School of Business, Boston University

Seth Benzell | Assistant Professor, Argyros School of Business and Economics, Chapman University

Jonathan Hersh

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