Interested in human side of information, economics, social & tech.
Questrom Professor Boston University. Digital Fellow MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy. Visiting Scholar Harvard Berkman-Klein.
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Interested in human side of information, economics, social & tech.
Questrom Professor Boston University. Digital Fellow MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy. Visiting Scholar Harvard Berkman-Klein.
Leap on in! The water is fine.
Marshall W. Van Alstyne is the Allen and Kelly Questrom Professor in IS at Boston University and a research associate at the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy. He co-developed the theory of two-sided markets with Geoffrey G Parker. His work focuses on the economics of information. This includes a sustained interest in information markets and in how information and technology affect productivity with an emphasis on “platforms” as an extension of the work on two-sided markets. .. more
New work with Sangeet Choudary shows how to do this: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/sieyk...
Market Design Interventions for Safer Agentic AI aisel.aisnet.org/icis2025/gen...
Reposted by James Grimmelmann
science.feedback.org/first-measur...
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$1000 best paper prize.
Program: questromworld.bu.edu/platformstra...
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Reposted by Frank de Vocht, Marshall Van Alstyne
International students are essential to the fiscal bottom line of almost every university. This is an unambiguous attempt to destroy Harvard—permanently.
And he won’t stop with Harvard. This is madness.
Reposted by Marshall Van Alstyne
International students are essential to the fiscal bottom line of almost every university. This is an unambiguous attempt to destroy Harvard—permanently.
And he won’t stop with Harvard. This is madness.
Reposted by Marshall Van Alstyne
Reposted by Marshall Van Alstyne
By causing a great deal of chaos for Harvard students and their communities, this action is as harmful as it is unlawful.
Reposted by Marshall Van Alstyne
Now, they are being illegally targeted by Trump, because Harvard won't back down.
Classic bully behavior.
We Stand Up for International Students.
www.npr.org/2025/05/22/n...
Reposted by Marshall Van Alstyne
Reposted by Marshall Van Alstyne
The goal: silence researchers & hide the truth.
Reality: This research is NOT about censorship.
@infoecon.bsky.social: Will "lead to a vastly more polluted information environment.”
