Thursday – March 12, 2026
9:30 – 10:00: Welcome and Coffee
10:00 – 11:30: Incentives, Recognition, and Performance Evaluation
Silvia Castro (INSEAD)
Making Help Visible: Experimental Evidence from a Recognition Program in the Workplace
Mateusz Stalinski (Warwick University)
Incentivizing Engagement: Experimental Evidence on Journalist Performance Pay
Holger Herz (Fribourg University)
Subjective Performance Evaluation in Tournaments with Asymmetric Contestants: Experimental Evidence
11:30 – 12:00: Coffee Break
12:00 – 13:00: AI Assisted Decision Authority and Hierarchy
Saeid Kazemi (Bocconi University)
Scientific Decision-Making and Managerial Hierarchy: A Comparative Analysis of ML Benchmarks and LLM Priors and Posteriors
Kimiyuki Morita (Senshu University)
The Allocation of Decision Authority in Three-Stage Decision Processes with Applications to Artificial Intelligence in Organizations
13:00 – 14:30: Lunch
14:30 – 16:00: Information, Feedback, and Strategic Communication
Jinju Rhee (LMU Munich)
How Information Shapes Price Competition
Yiqing Xing (Peking University)
Communication with Discretion
Tobias Kretschmer (Imperial College London)
Anonymity and Peer-Feedback in Crowdsourcing: Evidence from a Field Experiment
16:00 – 16:30: Coffee Break
16:30 – 18:00: AI and the Reconfiguration of Work and Skills
Xienan Cheng (Peking University)
Artificial Intelligence in Team Dynamics: Who Gets Replaced and Why?
Zsofia Barany (Central European University)
Broken Ladders: AI, Teamwork, and the Dynamics of Skill Formation in the Workplace
Florian Englmaier (LMU Munich)
Labour Demand Effects of AI Attributes
18:00: Conference Dinner (Ming Pavilion, Senior Common Room)
Friday – March 13, 2026
9:30 – 11:00: Signals, Screening, and Trust in the Age of Generative AI
Jesse Silbert (Princeton University)
Making Talk Cheap: Generative AI and Labor Market Signaling
Justin Ye (Yale University)
Signaling in the Age of AI: Evidence from Cover Letters
Bentley MacLeod (Columbia University/Yale University)
The Economics of Professional Decision-Making: Can Artificial Intelligence Reduce Decision Uncertainty?
11:00 – 11:30: Coffee Break
11:30 – 13:00: Generative AI, Learning, and the Returns to Expertise
Sijie Lin (University of Toronto)
Learning to Prompt: Human Adaptation in Production with Generative AI
Ruru Hoong (Harvard University)
Calibrated Coarsening: Designing Information for AI-Assisted Decisions
Guy Lichtinger (Harvard University)
Generative AI, Expertise, and Inequality: A Race Between Productivity and Scarcity
13:00 – 14:30: Lunch
14:30 – 15:30: Compression Effects and Incentive Design in the Age of GenAI
Better Technology, Worse Motivation: GenAI’s Mediocrity Trap
Toward a Bad Job Economy: AI Adoption, Agency Costs, and Job Design
15:30 – 16:00: Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:00: Keynote Lecture
Christopher Stanton (Harvard Business School)
Careers in the Age of AI
17:00 – 17:30
AI in Strategy, Management, and Organization: A Research Agenda
17:30: Industry Panel
Saturday – March 14, 2026
9:30 – 11:00: Relational Contracting, Outsourcing, and the Boundaries of the Firm
Michael Wong (University of Hong Kong)
The Emergence of Managers in Relational Contracting Markets
Jordi Blanes i Vidal (London School of Economics)
The Productivity of Contractors: Evidence from the Emergency Department
Giorgio Zanarone (University of Lausanne)
What Does Governance Do? Evidence from Airlines
11:00 – 11:30: Coffee Break
11:30 – 13:00: Careers, Retention, and Management Practices
Rosa Ferrer (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Adversarial Career Concerns: Theory and Evidence on Lawyers’ Career Trajectories
Yucheng Qiu (Peking University)
Replacement and Retention as Incentives
Ricard Gil (IESE Business School)
Management Practices and Firm Performance during the Great Recession
13:00: Lunch & End of Conference