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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 Companies Inadvertently Fund Online Misinformation Despite Consumer Backlash

Jun 2024

Research Papers Open E-commerce 1.0: Five Years of Crowdsourced, U.S. Amazon Purchase Histories

May 2024

Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland | Professor, MIT Media Lab

Alex Berke
Dan Calacci
Robert Mahari
Takahiro Yabe
Kent Larson

Research Papers Production Chain Organization in the Digital Age: Information Technology Use and Vertical Integration in U.S. Manufacturing

Apr 2024

Chris Forman

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

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