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Associate Professor of Business Administration
Fuqua School of Business
100 Fuqua Drive, A105K, PO Box 90120, Durham, NC 27708
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Published March 16, 2026
Washington Post
See which jobs are most threatened by AI and who may be able to adapt
Published February 3, 2026
Planet Money
5 papers from the Super Bowl of Economics
Published December 19, 2025
The Argument
Don't get fancy with your labor market fixes for AI
Published December 4, 2025
StateCraft
How to Save Science Funding
Published August 31, 2025
Business North Carolina
Dialing back federal funding strikes the Triangle’s acclaimed research complex
Published July 23, 2025
Fuqua Insights Podcast
Fuqua Insights Podcast: What Happens to Innovation If Research Funding Gets Cut?
Published July 9, 2025
Just Security
The Trump Administration’s Multi-Front Assault on Federal Research Funding
Published July 8, 2025
Maryland Today
UMD Among Top 5 Doctorate Producers in 5 Critical Tech Areas
Published July 7, 2025
Chronicle of Higher Education
The Wrecking of American Research
Published July 7, 2025
Forbes
Which Universities Mint The Most PhDs In Key Technology Areas?
Published June 2, 2025
WorkingNation
Will AI take your job? How tech disruption affects work
Published May 29, 2025
Radio Davos
“Trillions of dollars added to the economy” - Google’s chief economist on the macro impact of AI
Published May 16, 2025
The New Bazaar
AI and Jobs: What Do We Really Know?
Published April 15, 2025
Brookings Institution
Breaking the AI mirror
Published April 14, 2025
Harvard Gazette
Harvard won’t comply with demands from Trump administration
Published April 14, 2025
The Wartime Program that led to the NIH
Published April 9, 2025
Duke Fuqua Insights
How A Wartime Program to Support U.S. Troops Fueled Decades of Medical Research
Published March 31, 2025
New York Times
Trump’s Science Policies Pose Long-Term Risk, Economists Warn
Published March 29, 2025
Good Science Project
Federal Indirect Costs--Does a Flat Rate Make Sense?
Published March 14, 2025
Harvard Gazette
U.S. innovation ecosystem is envy of world. Here’s how it got started.
Published December 3, 2024
Research & Innovation Seed Grants Total Nearly $2 Million
Published October 9, 2024
UN International Labour Organization
Minimizing the negative effects of AI-induced technological unemployment
Published September 4, 2024
Bloomberg Businsesweek
The Brutal Economics of Reaching Net Zero
Published June 11, 2024
American Enterprise Institute
The Economics of AI and the Impending Robot Takeover, Part I
Published March 8, 2024
Entrepreneur Magazine
Small, Local Businesses Have a Competitive Advantage Over the Amazons and Ubers of the World, According to a New Report
Published February 14, 2024
AEA Research Highlights
The roots of US innovation clusters
Published February 12, 2024
American Enterprise Institute
To Understand AI Adoption, Focus on the Interdependencies
Published December 20, 2023
The Economist
A short history of tractors in English: What the tractor and the horse tell you about generative AI
Published September 8, 2023
The New York Times
The Latest Thinking on Biden’s Biggest Economic Idea
Published August 30, 2023
Freakonomics Podcast
New Technologies Always Scare Us. Is A.I. Any Different?
Published August 23, 2023
Freakonomics Podcast
Can A.I. Take a Joke?
Published August 17, 2023
NPR Marketplace
AI lessons from the telephone operators of the 1920s
Published July 18, 2023
Vox
Telephone operation was a good career for women. Then it got automated.
Published July 13, 2023
New Things Under the Sun
How to Impede Technological Progress
Published June 2, 2023
NPR's Planet Money
Our first podcast episode made by AI
Published February 9, 2023
Brookings Institution
How research universities are evolving to strengthen regional economies
Published December 19, 2022
Duke Fuqua Insights
Research: Innovation Sparked by Crises
Published December 15, 2022
Brookings Institution
Breaking down an $80 billion surge in place-based industrial policy
Published December 12, 2022
The Atlantic
Why the Age of American Progress Ended
Published October 1, 2022
NBER Reporter
Crisis Innovation: Historical Evidence, Insights, and Open Questions
Published April 20, 2022
VoxEU
The hidden costs of securing innovation: The manifold impacts of compulsory invention secrecy
Published April 15, 2022
New Things Under the Sun
When Extreme Necessity is the Mother of Invention
Published December 29, 2021
Mises Institute
America’s Wars Are Far More Costly than the Pentagon Admits
Published December 17, 2021
Washington Center for Equitable Growth
Exploring the impact of automation and new technologies on the future of U.S. workers and their families
Published June 30, 2021
NPR Here & Now
Has The Pandemic Ushered In A New Era Of Innovation?
Published June 28, 2021
The Atlantic
World War II’s Lesson for After the Pandemic
Published March 15, 2021
American Enterprise Institute
Evaluating World War II-era crisis innovation: My long-read Q&A with Daniel P. Gross
Published February 5, 2021
Harvard Business Review (France)
La compétition est-elle un frein ou un moteur pour la créativité?
Published February 3, 2021
Cato Institute
Automation and the Fate of Young Workers: Evidence from Telephone Operation in the Early 20th Century
Published January 21, 2021
American Enterprise Institute
The right and wrong lessons from ‘crisis innovation’ during the pandemic
Published December 3, 2020
American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Wartime Innovation: Lessons From the Office of Scientific R&D
Published November 25, 2020
Broadstreet
Adjusting to Automation
Published November 25, 2020
TechRepublic
AI automation promises to have a big, and not always positive, impact
Published November 9, 2020
American Enterprise Institute
What happened to female workers after telephone operator jobs went away?
Published October 13, 2020
American Enterprise Institute
Science research and the lessons of World War II
Published September 1, 2020
NBER Digest
World War II R&D Spending Catalyzed Post-War Innovation Hubs
Published June 25, 2020
Axios
The long-term gains of Big Science
Published June 15, 2020
AEIdeas
What can we learn from America’s big science research investment during World War II?
Published February 12, 2020
Cato Institute
Collusive Investments in Technological Compatibility
Published December 12, 2019
Freelancer.com
6 reasons your startup should welcome competition
Published September 24, 2019
HBS Working Knowledge
Do National Security Secrets Hold Back National Innovation?
Published July 1, 2019
NBER Digest
WWII Policy Kept Patents Secret, Slowed Innovation
Published January 20, 2019
VoxEU
Creativity under fire: The effects of competition on creative production
Published November 12, 2018
LiveMint
SnapFact: How the Goldilocks concept applies to creativity
Published October 12, 2018
Finweek
How to incentivise creativity
Published November 21, 2017
Inc.com
6 Ways to Create a Competitive Work Culture That's Team First (And Not Me First)
Published May 21, 2016
The New York Times
For Workplace Creativity, Find the Right Dose of Competition
Published November 16, 2015
HBS Working Knowledge
Does Competition Make Us More Creative?