Tepperspectives

How can the behavior of tiny, subatomic particles completely revolutionize everyday business operations like inventory management, delivery schedules, and investment strategies? In this interview, Dr. Sridhar Tayur , Ford Distinguished Research Chair and University Professor of Operations Management at Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business, breaks down the Second Quantum Revolutio...

Purpose claims, mission statements, vision statements, and other indicators of company values, ideals, and belief systems have become increasingly common in the practice of recruitment and talent acquisition. These claims intend to galvanize applicants and stakeholders by articulating the reasons companies exist, going beyond selling products, providing services, and making a profit. In “The Authe...

In trauma bays, a team’s collective mind often matters more than individual skill. A recent study by Tepper School Professor Linda Argote and colleagues from the University of Pittsburgh, the Virginia Hospital Center, the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, and Washington University in St. Louis found that teams with a strong transactive memory system, which is a shared understanding of ea...

Tepper School Professor Sridhar Tayur and Tinglong Dai, Tepper School graduate and Johns Hopkins professor, join Emily DeJeu to discuss how AI can help improve supply chains, but also why it can't solve every problem.

What should users consider when using generative AI to create or manipulate images of other people? What policies should companies adopt to ensure that their products don't cause harm? Ethicist Derek Leben joins the Tepperspectives podcast to discuss. Links to news, ideas, and concepts in the episode: Derek Leben's book, AI Fairness: Designing Equal Opportunity Algorithms from MIT Press: https://m...

Tepper School doctoral student Pim Assavabhokhin speaks with Professor Emily DeJeu about how AI can enhance short-term decision accuracy and transactive memory systems to improve team speed, but over-reliance on technology can create a dependency. tepperspetives.cmu.edu cmu.edu/tepper

Tepper School researchers Taya Cohen and Sofía Rodríguez Chaves look at how ethics and moral character influence responsible AI use in the absence of policy or regulations. To learn more about the Center for Intelligent Business, please visit: https://www.cmu.edu/intelligentbusiness/ For more thought leadership from the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University, please visit: https:/...

We can use this as the description: Professor Tim Derdenger joins the Tepperspectives Podcast to discuss the impact that name, image, and likeness (NIL) have on college sports. In " Does Personalized Pricing Increase Competition? Evidence from NIL in College Football, " Derdenger and his co-author Ivan Li examine how the results from NIL deals have done the opposite of expectations by dispersing t...

Emily DeJeu, Assistant Teaching Professor of Business Communication, speaks with Brandy Aven, Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior and Theory, about the evolving role of artificial intelligence in business and the workplace. In the past few months, several companies and company leaders have floated the idea of reducing the workforce and giving those jobs to AI. What are the positive and...

Tariffs have become a household word in the last few months, but the situation and questions around tariffs is getting more complex. Associate professor of economics Ali Shourideh discusses the current situation with US tariffs and their effect on businesses, consumers, and international trade.

Carnegie Mellon University professors John Hooker (Tepper School of Business) and Peter Zhang (Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy) join the Tepperspectives Podcast to discuss their new book, The Structure of Fair Solutions , co-authored with Tepper School alumnus Özgün Elçi. The Structure of Fair Solutions introduces a mathematical framework for building ethical optimization mo...