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.

Fabrizio Dell’Acqua

Research

Publications

Bo Cowgill, Fabrizio Dell’Acqua and Sandra Matz. The Managerial Effects of Algorithmic Fairness Activism. American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, 2020.
Fabrizio Dell’Acqua, Bruce Kogut and Patryk Perkowski. Super Mario Meets AI: Experimental Effects of Automation and Skills on Team Performance and Coordination. Review of Economics and Statistics, 2025.
Tommaso Bondi, Vanessa Burbano and Fabrizio Dell’Acqua. When (Not) to Talk Politics in Business: Experimental Evidence. Strategic Management Journal, 2025.
Katherine Kellogg, Hila Lifshitz, Steven Randazzo, Ethan Mollick, Fabrizio Dell’Acqua, Edward McFowland III, François Candelon and Karim Lakhani. Don’t Expect Juniors to Teach Senior Professionals to Use Generative AI: Emerging Technology Risks and Novice AI Risk Mitigation Tactics. Information and Organization, 2025.
Fabrizio Dell’Acqua, Edward McFowland III, Ethan Mollick, Hila Lifshitz, Katherine Kellogg, Saran Rajendran, Lisa Krayer, François Candelon and Karim Lakhani. Navigating the Jagged Technological Frontier: Field Experimental Evidence of the Effects of AI on Knowledge Worker Productivity and Quality. Forthcoming, Organization Science 2026.

Working Papers

Fabrizio Dell’Acqua, Charles Ayoubi, Hila Lifshitz, Raffaella Sadun, Ethan Mollick, Lilach Mollick, Yi Han, Jeff Goldman, Hari Nair, Stew Taub and Karim Lakhani. The Cybernetic Teammate: A Field Experiment on Generative AI and Teamwork. Revise and Resubmit - Minor Revision, Organization Science.
Bo Cowgill, Fabrizio Dell’Acqua, Samuel Deng, Nakul Verma, Daniel Hsu and Augustin Chaintreau. Biased Programmers? Or Biased Data? A Field Experiment in Operationalizing AI Ethics.
Published as an abstract in the Proceedings of the Twenty-First ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, 2020.
Fabrizio Dell’Acqua. Falling Asleep at the Wheel: Human/AI Collaboration in a Field Experiment on HR Recruiters.
Steven Randazzo, Akshita Joshi, Katherine Kellogg, Hila Lifshitz, Ethan Mollick, Fabrizio Dell’Acqua and Karim Lakhani. GenAI as a Power Persuader: How GenAI Disrupts Professionals’ Ability to Interrogate It. Submitted, Academy of Management Journal.

Work in Progress

Fabrizio Dell’Acqua, Kevin Boudreau, Zahra Rasouli, Mark Antonio Awada and Karim Lakhani. This Time Is Different: A Comparison of Three Waves of AI Adoption in the Sciences.
Steven Randazzo, Hila Lifshitz, Katherine Kellogg, Fabrizio Dell’Acqua, Ethan Mollick and Karim Lakhani. Cyborgs, Centaurs and Self Automators: Human-GenAI Fused, Directed and Abdicated Knowledge Co-creation Processes and their Implications for Skilling.
Fabrizio Dell’Acqua, Hila Lifshitz, Edward McFowland III, Ethan Mollick, François Candelon, Guillaume Sajust de Bergues, Katherine Kellogg, Riccarda Joas, Steven Randazzo and Karim Lakhani. GenAI as a Creative Ideas Evaluator: Matching and Even Surpassing Human Abilities While Demonstrating Similar Biases.
Iavor Bojinov, Fabrizio Dell’Acqua, Zahra Rasouli and Karim Lakhani. Experimentation in Management Research.
Edward McFowland III, Fabrizio Dell’Acqua, Michael Menietti, Ethan Mollick, Hila Lifshitz, Katherine Kellogg, François Candelon and Karim Lakhani. AI in Knowledge Work Organizations: A Field Experiment on Individual Efficiency and Idea Diversity.

Teaching

Case Studies

What Drives Musk? Making the Most of Markets and States (with Bruce Kogut), Columbia CaseWorks, ID200408.
Chancellor Angela Merkel, McKinsey, and 1.1 Million Refugees (with Bruce Kogut), Columbia CaseWorks, ID200403.

Course Instructor

Fall 2025, 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).

Guest Lecturer

Spring 2025: Large Language Models: From Transformer Basics to Agentic AI (Harvard School of Engineering).
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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