Recent Notes
- 2026-05-25 Teaching AI and strategy as the field changes
Lessons from an intensive AI and Strategy course as coding agents changed what firms can build, delegate, and defend.
- 2026-03-25 Beyond the unitary actor: A new foundation for organizational utility
Why strategy needs a workable account of firms as coalitions, and how aggregation structures turn individual preferences into organizational choices.
- 2026-02-22 On the Humans + AI Podcast with Ross Dawson
A conversation with Ross Dawson about AI and strategy, venture evaluation, foresight, distributed representations, and human-AI collaboration.
- 2026-02-04 Can AI outperform humans at strategic foresight?
A prospective tournament in which frontier AI models outperformed managers and investors at predicting venture fundraising success.
- 2026-02-02 The Handbook of Artificial Intelligence and Strategy arrives this month
Inside the Handbook of Artificial Intelligence and Strategy, organized around theories, tools, teaching, and new competitive terrains.
- 2025-12-29 AI in management education: A new epoch for business schools
Why generative AI challenges the work business schools use to signal competence and may push management education into a new epoch.
- 2025-12-11 The power and limits of distributed representations in strategic decision making
When organizations make better decisions by aggregating specialists’ partial models—and when averaging, unanimity, or generalists perform best.
- 2025-12-10 Wrapping up my new AI and strategy course
Reflections from the first run of Michigan Ross’s AI and Strategy course, including its core questions and guest speakers.
- 2025-09-14 Honoring the life and legacy of Professor Rich Bettis
A remembrance of strategy scholar Rich Bettis, his intellectual legacy, and his example as a mentor, colleague, and friend.
- 2025-09-10 Unbounding rationality: Why AI is a fundamental issue for strategy
How AI relaxes bounded rationality, changes strategy processes and competitive advantage, and shifts the strategist’s role.
- 2025-08-04 When to innovate and when to imitate
Why imitation deserves more attention in strategy, and how research on imitation, positioning, and search informed a Harvard Business Review article.
- 2025-02-23 AI cracks superbug problem in two days that took scientists years
What an AI system’s rapid solution to a decade-old scientific problem may imply for business ideas and AI-augmented strategy.
- 2024-10-02 Exploring NotebookLM: Making academic research more accessible
A test of NotebookLM’s AI-generated podcast format as a way to make academic research accessible without replacing the full paper.
- 2024-08-14 Artificial intelligence and strategic decision-making: Evidence from entrepreneurs and investors
An introduction to research testing how well AI generates and evaluates strategies compared with entrepreneurs and investors.
- 2024-06-02 Launching this website: A journey through time and technology
Why I returned to building a personal website after 30 years and chose to own the technology behind it.
- 2024-05-22 External representations in strategic decision-making: Understanding strategy’s reliance on visuals
Why visuals are common in strategy, how they shape the search for new strategies, and what that means for users, designers, and teachers.
- 2023-06-06 What students learn when they take a strategy course
Evidence from more than 2,000 MBA students shows how a core strategy course changes predictions, explanations, confidence, and uncertainty.
- 2022-11-04 When it comes to data, sometimes less is more
A Wall Street Journal article on research showing when using group membership can make predictions less accurate.