🧠🤖 AOM PDW | Bridging Minds and Machines: Rethinking Innovation in the Age of AI
How is AI reshaping the way we innovate — and who's really in control when humans and machines think together?
Join us at AOM 2026 in Philadelphia for an inaugural PDW that brings together leading scholars to examine how artificial intelligence is transforming the way individuals, teams, and organizations search, identify problems, and generate and evaluate solutions.
Moving beyond AI as a mere tool, this PDW centers on human–AI hybrid processes — and in particular the tension in which humans manage AI while simultaneously being subtly managed by it. By considering both predictive and generative forms of AI, we explore how these technologies reshape human expertise and knowledge in identifying opportunities, generating alternatives, and assessing innovation. Bringing together scholars from strategy, technology, innovation, operations, data science, and entrepreneurship, the PDW aims to develop a research agenda on integrating different forms of AI into innovation processes.
Session Format
🧠 Part I: Panel on Micro- and Meso-level Perspectives and Implications for AI & Innovation
- Hamsa Bastani (Wharton)
- Felipe Csaszar (Michigan)
- Prasanna (Sonny) Tambe (Wharton)
- Dashun Wang (Kellogg).
🌐 Part II: Panel on Macro-level Perspectives and Implications for AI & Innovation
- Riitta Katila (Stanford)
- Christian Terwiesch (Wharton)
- Georg von Krogh (ETH Zürich).
💬 Part III – Roundtables (Pre-registration only) Pre-registered junior participants will engage with matched faculty to discuss their research projects in depth. Submit a short research proposal to apply; accepted participants will be matched with relevant panelists. Priority given to doctoral students and early-career scholars.
📍 Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Room 108B — Philadelphia, at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting (AOM 2026)
📅 Date & Time: Saturday, August 1, 2026 | 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM
🔗 Apply for Roundtables: Submit your proposal by Wednesday, July 1, 2026, using this form: https://forms.gle/fUFzhyFNgNtYDZ2Z8
Questions: cgrumbach@ethz.ch.Notifications by July 20, 2026.
Organizers: Jackie Lane (Harvard Business School) and Cyrille Grumbach (ETH Zürich & Harvard Business School)
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Cyrille Grumbach
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Zürich
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