Fabrizio Dell’Acqua

I am a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard Business School. I received my Ph.D. in Management from Columbia Business School.

My research explores how human/AI collaboration reshapes knowledge work: the impact of AI on knowledge workers, its effects on team dynamics and performance, and its broader organizational implications. I run experiments that investigate these questions.

Prior to my Ph.D. at Columbia, I had received degrees in economics from Bocconi University and London Business School. I had also co-founded several tech ventures.

You can find my CV here.

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Research

Publications


Working Papers

Work in Progress


    • The Emergence of a General Purpose Technology: Mapping the Diffusion of Artificial Intelligence across Scientific Disciplines (with Kevin Boudreau, Zahra Rasouli, Mark Antonio Awada, and Karim Lakhani).

    • Cyborgs, Centaurs and Self Automators: Human-GenAI Fused, Directed and Abdicated Knowledge Co-creation Processes and their Implications for Skilling (with Steven Randazzo, Hila Lifshitz, Katherine Kellogg, Ethan Mollick, and Karim Lakhani).

    • GenAI as a Creative Ideas Evaluator: Matching and Even Surpassing Human Abilities While Demonstrating Similar Biases (with Edward McFowland III, Ethan Mollick, François Candelon, Guillaume Sajust de Bergues, Hila Lifshitz, Karim Lakhani, Katherine Kellogg, Riccarda Joas, and Steven Randazzo).

    • Experimentation in Management Research (with Iavor Bojinov, Zahra Rasouli, and Karim Lakhani).

    • AI in Knowledge Work Organizations: A Field Experiment on Individual Efficiency and Idea Diversity in Teams (with Edward McFowland III, Michael Menietti, Ethan Mollick, Hila Lifshitz, Katherine Kellogg, François Candelon, and Karim Lakhani).
Teaching

Case Studies



    • Fall 2024, AI’s Promise and Challenge (Harvard Law School).
    • Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Competing in the Age of AI (HBS Exec Ed).
    • Spring 2022, Strategy Formulation (Columbia Undergraduate).

Course Instructor

Guest Lecturer


    • Spring 2023, Disruptive Innovation: Robots, Data, and AI (Harvard University).
    • Spring 2022, Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Business Strategies and Solving Social Problems (Columbia GSB).

Curriculum Vitae
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