🗺️🧭collaborate option/operations

[hyunjimoon]

Goal

Record

• Collaboration opportunities: 1) Initial feelings (when offered) 2) Reasons for pursuit (when i reached out)
• how I framed Collaboration option as experiment: find low-cost way to design empirical research given theory and tools

Learn:

• Inferred reasoning behind observed choices, based on known style
• from NAILERS (mission driven, flexible, resourceful, fearless, entrepreneurial, generalist) + has optimism in controllable part of life, strategic thinking, entrepreneurial) as their lives are more reversible, leading to lower learning degeneracy (computational rationality, policy optimization, etc.)

Collaborate

• with SCALER, SAILOR in paper writing (who are more metrics driven)

September 2024 Hypothesis Verification

• B-school faculty's thoughts on how fast b-school job candidate evaluation is evolving as AI development fastens
• Overlap: cognitive science and OM domain > cognitive science and Strategy domain

Act

On career choices, e.g., journal choice #255

Notes on Collaborators

Heidi's Research Topic Selection Criteria

1. Question I care about
2. Have an idea how to answer it
3. No one else will write it, or not as well

Kris

Managing by simulating cost-benefit distribution for collaboration:

• Theory developing
• Lab, field experiment

Designing collaboration tests (partial commitment learning) as low-cost, high-information experiments (valuable real options)

Jackie

Offered lab presentation opportunity. Rationalize excitement with entrepreneurial theory:
Meaning: Simulating empirical work implementation to infer cost of adding empirical hue to theory and tools

Decision Framework

θ1: B-school faculty evaluation in 2027 similar to 2024 {yes, no}
θ2: Spend ≥50% of resources on empirical work design {yes, no}

Scott's advice (given θ1):
Develop input for empirical research (θ2 | θ1), e.g., Camuffo's Scientific Approach to Entrepreneurial Decision Making

Personal stance:

• Disagree on P(θ1): Expect faster change in b-school evaluation
• Agree on optimal θ2 given θ1 is true

Kris Follow-up

Based on known approach (life as sequential decision-making problem)
Query: "How's your learning on lab experiment going?"