Ajay Agrawal
I have no direct conflicts of interest. My full disclosure statement is available at https://agrawal.ca/disclosure
Disclosures at https://agrawal.ca/disclosure as of May 12, 2023:
Ajay Agrawal has drawn on the findings of his research for both compensated speaking engagements and consulting engagements. He has written the book Prediction Machines on the economics of AI for which he receives royalties. He is also director of the Creative Destruction Lab, a University of Toronto-based program that helps seed stage companies, from which he receives compensation. He has equity shares in a number of technology companies as part of a diverse portfolio. He serves on the boards of Genpact (NYSE: G) and Sanctuary.
Joshua Gans
Joshua Gans has drawn on the findings of his research for both compensated speaking engagements and consulting engagements. He has written the books Prediction Machines, Innovation + Equality and Power and Prediction on the economics of AI for which he receives royalties. He is also chief economist of the Creative Destruction Lab, a University of Toronto-based program that helps seed stage companies, from which he receives compensation. He conducts consulting on anti-trust and intellectual property matters with an association with Charles River Associates and his ownership of Core Economic Research Ltd. He also has equity and advisory relationships with a number of startup firms.
Avi Goldfarb
I have no direct conflicts of interest.
Disclosure
I have received grants supporting my research from multiple sources including the Sloan Foundation (ongoing), the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (ongoing), the National Science Foundation (most recently 2018), Google (most recently 2009), WPP (most recently 2009), the Net Institute (most recently 2007), Bell Canada (most recently 2006), Plurimus Corporation (most recently 2001), and the Social Science Research Council (most recently 2000). I run a consulting company, Goldfarb Analytics Corporation, that advises organizations on digital and A.I. strategy, including work on legal cases involving large technology companies. Clients have included BMO, Bond Brand Loyalty, Brainmaven (on A.I. strategy in the insurance industry), Bruce Power, the Competition Bureau of Canada, Cornerstone Research (on matters of competition and privacy in the ad tech space), Meta/Facebook, the Federal Trade Commission, Keystone Strategy (on matters of competition in the ad tech space), Property Valuation Services Corporation of Nova Scotia, and RBC. I have given lectures—sometimes paid—at several organizations including Amazon, Bloomberg, BMC, Boehringer Ingelheim, Corus Entertainment, Ebay, Google, Hospital for Sick Children, Indigo, INTACT, Meta/Facebook, McKesson, Microsoft, Netflix, Neoway, Neighbourhood Pharmacy Association of Canada, Pinterest, RBC, ScotiaBank, Sisense, and Zetta Venture Partners. I am Chief Data Scientist at the Creative Destruction Lab, a non-profit organization that helps science-based startups to scale. I served on the steering committee of the CDL-Rapid Screening Consortium, a corporate- and government-funded not-for-profit endeavour to build a scalable workplace COVID screening system to facilitate a return to normal. I also hold shares in many technology companies as part of a well-balanced investment portfolio.
Catherine Tucker
Please see this website for my list of current disclosures
https://mitmgmtfaculty.mit.edu/cetucker/disclosure/
Current disclosures as of March 31, 2023:
This is my disclosure statement. It lists companies I have consulted for, grants I have received, relationships with academics working at a variety of firms, and entities in which I have a significant financial interest. The statement follows the guidelines set out by MIT, American Economic Review guidelines, and NBER guidelines. However, since these disclosures are not readily accessible and only require people to disclose financial interests as they deem relevant it seems more straightforward to just post a full disclosure on my website.
DISCLOSURE STATEMENT: CATHERINE TUCKER
This is a public disclosure statement.1 Please also see my CV.2
I have received grants from DARPA, Google, the MIT CryptoEconomics Lab, the National Science Foundation, National Institute for Health, the Sloan Foundation, Tilburg Law and Economics Center, Time Warner, the Net Institute, WPP, the Marketing Science Institute,3 and the Computer & Communications Industry Association.4
I have received data from multiple firms including General Motors, Visible Measures, Havas Digital, and WPP.
I consulted for ADT, Amazon, Bausch and Lomb, BMI, CBS, Chevron, Choice Hotels, ContextLogic, Facebook, Instacart, Intercontinental Group, Google, NCAA, Match Group, Marriott, Microsoft, Mu Sigma, Lyft, Reynolds and Reynolds, Ripple, RTIC, Samsung, SoundExchange, Verizon, and Yahoo. I am an academic affiliate at the Analysis Group,
which is an economics consulting firm.
My academic advisors from my PhD at Stanford have also worked at multiple companies. These include Susan Athey (who was chief economist at Microsoft and is served on the boards of Ripple, Rover and Expedia), Steve Tadelis (who was chief economist at eBay), Tim Bresnahan who was Chief Economist at the DOJ, and Pat Bajari, who
is currently chief economist at Amazon. My classmate at Stanford, Peter Coles, is now chief economist at AirBnB.
I hold shares in individual companies that track the VHYAX index. The rest of my investments are in passive index tracker funds and municipal bonds.
Date: October 16, 2022
1. Following guidelines set out by https://coi.mit.edu/policy, https://www.aeaweb.org/journals/policies/disclosure-policy and http://www.nber.org/researchdisclosurepolicy.html
2. Download from http://mitmgmtfaculty.mit.edu/cetucker/
3. Member companies are listed at http://www.msi.org/about-msi/current-member-companies/
4. Member companies are listed at http://www.ccianet.org/about/members/
