Lynn Wu

University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School

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3733 Spruce Street

Philadelphia, PA 19104-6374

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1.

AI on Drugs: Can Artificial Intelligence Accelerate Drug Development? Evidence from a Large-scale Examination of Bio-pharma Firms,

MISQ Forthcoming
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 20 Feb 2020 Last Revised: 06 Jun 2022
Bowen Lou and Lynn Wu
Marshall School of Business - University of Southern California and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
Downloads 4,842 (4,253)
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AI, Drug Discovery, Machine Learning, Economics of AI

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The Future of Prediction: How Google Searches Foreshadow Housing Prices and Sales

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 14 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 02 Dec 2015
Lynn Wu and Erik Brynjolfsson
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
Downloads 4,196 (5,374)
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Online Search, Prediction, Housing Prices, Real Estate, Google Trends

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The Robot Revolution: Managerial and Employment Consequences for Firms

NYU Stern School of Business
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 19 Jul 2019 Last Revised: 18 Jun 2020
Jay Dixon, Bryan Hong and Lynn Wu
Statistics Canada, Henry W. Bloch School of Management, University of Missouri-Kansas City and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
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Robot, AI, Employment, Productivity, Organizational Change

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Herding and Social Media Word-of-Mouth: Evidence from Groupon

Forthcoming at MISQ
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 14 May 2013 Last Revised: 26 Jan 2019
Xitong Li and Lynn Wu
HEC Paris and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
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Herding, Word-of-mouth (WOM), Social media, Online marketing, Complementarity

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Mining Face-to-Face Interaction Networks using Sociometric Badges: Predicting Productivity in an IT Configuration Task

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 08 May 2008
Lynn Wu, Benjamin N. Waber, Sinan Aral, Erik Brynjolfsson and Alex Pentland
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, MIT - Media Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Social Networks, Face-to-Face Communication, Information Worker, Productivity

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Data Analytics Skills, Innovation and Firm Productivity

Management Science Forthcoming
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 08 Mar 2016 Last Revised: 19 Feb 2020
Lynn Wu, Lorin M. Hitt and Bowen Lou
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania - Operations & Information Management Department and Marshall School of Business - University of Southern California
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data analytics, novel innovation, recombination, productivity, big data, AI, automation, economics of IS

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Three-Way Complementarities: Performance Pay, HR Analytics and Information Technology

Management Science, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 26 Aug 2010 Last Revised: 12 Jun 2014
Sinan Aral, Erik Brynjolfsson and Lynn Wu
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
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Incentive Systems, Information Technology, Monitoring, Complementarity, Enterprise Systems, ERP, Productivity, Production Function, Principal-Agent Model

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Social Network Effects on Productivity and Job Security: Evidence from the Adoption of a Social Networking Tool

Information System Research, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 01 Nov 2012 Last Revised: 28 May 2013
Lynn Wu
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
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Social Media, Social Network, Productivity, Job Security, Information Diversity, and Social Communication, Knowledge Management

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For Startups, Adaptability and Mentor Network Diversity can be Pivotal: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment on a MOOC Platform

MIS Quarterly, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 02 Mar 2015 Last Revised: 13 Jul 2019
Charles E. Eesley and Lynn Wu
Stanford University - Management Science & Engineering and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
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Social Networks, Entrepreneurship, MOOCs, Randomized Experiments

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Social Media Alleviates Venture Capital Funding Inequality for Women and Less Connected Entrepreneurs

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 01 Aug 2022
Xiaoning (Gavin) Wang, Lynn Wu and Lorin M. Hitt
The University of Texas at Dallas, University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and University of Pennsylvania - Operations & Information Management Department
Downloads 1,070 (45,156)
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Gender Inequality, Social Media, Venture Capital, Startups, Social Network, Digital Divide

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Network-biased Technical Change: How Modern Digital Collaboration Tools Overcome Some Biases but Exacerbate Others

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 06 May 2014 Last Revised: 23 Jan 2020
Lynn Wu and Gerald C. Kane
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and University of Georgia - C. Herman and Mary Virginia Terry College of Business
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social media, technology adoption, social capital, inequality

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Data Analytics Skills and the Corporate Value of Social Media

Kelley School of Business Research Paper No. 16-61
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 22 Aug 2016
Lorin M. Hitt, Fujie Jin and Lynn Wu
University of Pennsylvania - Operations & Information Management Department, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
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Social Media, Data Analytics, Skills, Market Value, Complementarities

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Data Analytics Supports Decentralized Innovation

Management Science, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 05 Apr 2019 Last Revised: 20 Feb 2020
Lynn Wu, Bowen Lou and Lorin M. Hitt
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, Marshall School of Business - University of Southern California and University of Pennsylvania - Operations & Information Management Department
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data analytics, AI, big data, automation, decentralization, organizational complements, innovation, recombination, novel innovation, productivity, economics of IS

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Sociometric Badges: A New Tool for I.S. Research

Number of pages: 60 Posted: 22 Mar 2011
Benjamin N. Waber, Sinan Aral, Daniel Olguin Olguin, Lynn Wu, Erik Brynjolfsson and Alex Pentland
MIT - Media Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, MIT - Media Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Innovation Strategy after IPO: How AI Analytics Spurs Innovation after IPO

The Wharton School Research Paper
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 30 May 2024
Lynn Wu, Bowen Lou and Lorin M. Hitt
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, Marshall School of Business - University of Southern California and University of Pennsylvania - Operations & Information Management Department
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Are All Spillovers Created Equal? A Network Perspective on IT Labor Movements

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 22 Nov 2014 Last Revised: 01 Mar 2015
Lynn Wu, Fujie Jin and Lorin M. Hitt
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University and University of Pennsylvania - Operations & Information Management Department
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Hiring Network, Productivity, Spillover, HR Analytics, Information Worker, Firm Productivity

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Artificial Intelligence, Lean Startup Method, and Product Innovations

The Wharton School Research Paper
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 21 Nov 2024 Last Revised: 09 Apr 2025
Xiaoning (Gavin) Wang and Lynn Wu
The University of Texas at Dallas and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
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Artificial Intelligence, Lean Startup Method, Startup, Product Development, Incremental Innovation, Novel Innovation

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Querying Web-Sources within a Data Federation

MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 4624-06, CISL Working Paper No. 2006-09
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 28 Aug 2006
Lynn Wu, Aykut Firat, Tarik Alatovic and Stuart Madnick
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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federated data, web data sources, capabilities, query handling