Avi Goldfarb

@avicgoldfarb

Professor at Rotman, University of Toronto. Chief Data Scientist, Creative Destruction Lab. Author, Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of A.I.

Toronto, Ontario
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Joined May 2013
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    In US, out of top 15 companies by market cap, median year founded is 1976 and median company age is 45 years. In Canada, median year founded is 1899 and median age is 122 years.

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    Dec 15

    Please join us on Jan. 19, 2022 for a panel discussion on the datasets that got us through COVID-19. hosted by

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    Dec 14

    Our article about the business implications of quantum computing is now up at My coauthors are and , who did the heavy lifting and heavy thinking. Thanks also to for excellent editing

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    Dec 10

    Along with and , we're excited to announce the Inaugural Wharton/Columbia Management, Analytics, and Data Conference to take place at Columbia Busness School's brand new building on May 13th.

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    Dec 9

    For aspiring digital health leaders, has paved a roadmap: 1) identify true pain point in healthcare where digital tech can have impact for good 2) successfully implement an elegant solution Digital PET will eventually be standard of care. Congrats

    Thank you for recognizing - truly a team effort to be honoured this way. We're proud to advance the adoption of in Canada - and we're just getting started! 😀 - thank you for helping us get off the ground!
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    Dec 8

    NEW Handbook of Sample chapter:

    , , and 7 others
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    Dec 6

    In Toronto, is fostering the next generation of innovation leaders by helping transform their ideas into entrepreneurial success. It was great meeting with CDL today to discuss the commercialization of cutting-edge science and technology initiatives.

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    Dec 3

    Syllabus alert! 🚨 I've finished a draft syllabus for my seminar on the GEOPOLITICS OF CYBERSECURITY this Spring. We'll explore the strategic and organizational context of cyber campaigns. Send any comments, suggestions, or tomatoes my way.

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    Dec 3

    All four Maisel teasers in one link! Yes, four. A new one focusing on Joel dropped today. Added bonus for the Sondheim fan- they all feature Rose's Turn from Gypsy.

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    Dec 2

    Ontario is likely to pass legislation around helping workers disconnect from work to support work-life balance. Another aspect not getting a lot of coverage is it will prohibit non-compete clauses. As someone who has studied their impact, this will matter a lot.

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    Dec 2

    This week, we’re happy to re-introduce , Rotman Chair in AI and Healthcare, Professor at the , and . Among other topics, his research focuses on the opportunities and challenges of the 📈

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    Nov 30

    How do companies succeed through new products? ➡️By striving for new products that reach beyond the firm’s technological comfort zone – even if it means more failure – says a new study using impressive detailed historical data from Japan

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    Nov 28

    We’re hiring! Postdoc opening to work on social impact projects in the GC Lab at the Stanford Graduate School of Business with Faculty Director Susan Athey. Experimentalists & applied micro/labor preferred. More details:

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    Nov 28

    Enjoying this Sunday read immensely . Recomendable for my fellow economists that understand that AI is the present, not only the future. Thanks to .

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    Nov 26

    CDL is hiring! We're looking for ambitious individuals to join us to help massively scale startups. See available positions here:

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    Nov 24

    1/10 🧵Crypto, NFTs and Web3 are another major attempt at democratizing access to capital. Conditions are different today, as some of the frictions that limited early crowdfunding platforms are gone!

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    Nov 22

    Just posted a new NBER working paper with , , , and Jimmy Roberts on a lucrative fraud scheme, how the government tried to combat it, and what we can learn from it 🧵

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    Nov 22

    Highly recommended! Don’t feel shy to apply if you are not in economics but are studying digital markets in other fields like marketing, is, strategy or even political science/sociology. This tends to get a very broad and diverse crowd!

    NBER Digitization Tutorial. March 30-31 in Washington DC. Tell your PhD students to apply!
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    NBER Digitization Tutorial. March 30-31 in Washington DC. Tell your PhD students to apply!

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    Nov 19

    🚨New paper🚨 AI innovation may both entrench modern autocracies and be promoted by them in a sustained manner. Read on for evidence of such mutually reinforcing relationship in the context of facial recognition AI in China. A thread 🧵 1/13

    Study finds a mutually reinforcing relationship between frontier innovation and autocracy in the context of facial recognition AI in China, from , Andrew Kao, , and Noam Yuchtman
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