Dr Andrea Lagna, @andrealagna.bsky.social, an expert in Information Systems and Political Economy, believes we can create a future where AI-driven business success goes hand-in-hand with the responsible management of our resources.
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A special welcome to the inaugural cohort of MSc Digital Transformation students at Alliance Manchester Business School! 🎉 As Program Director, it’s a privilege to open this new chapter with talented students and colleagues. 🤗📚 #AMBS #OriginalThinkingApplied #DigitalTransformation #Sustainability
But we’ve now decided to start a new series of Q&A style interviews that we’ll run weekly on FTAV. The first one up is with Gappy Paleologo, Balyasny’s head of quant research. Hope you enjoy it! on.ft.com/4kFDw4H
Very proud to present a new paper out in Environment and Planning A. I look at how real estate actors re-framed Lisbon as a viable investment destination in the post-crisis era, which today means the city has some of the highest housing costs in Europe. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Thrilled to share that the Cambridge Global Handbook of Financial Infrastructure, co-edited with Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn and Barbara Brandl, has been published!
You can find all chapters open access: doi.org/10.1017/9781...
@caseycrownhart.bsky.social and I spent months reporting together and found the common understanding of AI's energy appetite to be full of holes. As Big Tech aims to restructure our energy grids around the needs of AI, we dive as deep as one can go.
www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...
Great to present my paper “Theorizing the Sustainability Paradox of AI” with Sun Hye Lee at the Theorizing Data & AI workshop, VU Amsterdam. We study how firms strategize for sustainable AI. Join the convo and fantastic community: www.linkedin.com/groups/93605... #AI #Sustainability #DigitalStrategy
Looking forward to chairing a fantastic panel on “Fintech Policy for Productivity and Growth” at Innovate Finance UK Fintech Academic Network (UKFAN) Conference! Fintech policymaking plays a key role in unlocking innovation and supporting sustainable growth☀️ www.innovatefinance.com/events/uk-fi...
The financialization of the state continues
Start-ups developing AI-powered apps have attracted $8.2bn of funding in 2024. Competition heats up in the app layer of the Generative AI stack.
Bond sell-off as a tool of financialized statecraft could be more effective than retaliation tariffs.
...and what about RenTech's Medallion Fund?!
thanks, Rodrigo!
I did zero editing. Two human podcasters could simply follow the AI-generated script.
I tried out an AI-generated podcast based on my paper Asset Manager Capitalism and the Political Economy of Artificial Intelligence, recently published open access in @ripejournal.bsky.social ...It turned out pretty cool—give it a listen 🎧 lagna.io/notebook/inv...
Academics and practitioners often forget that digital transformation is not an exogenous external force. We should ask how it is socially constructed; who benefits and who loses in the digital age.
This quote shows the centrality of data and AI strategy for investment giants rendering private markets legible: Preqin [...] will enable BlackRock to bring “clearer, more timely data” to the industry, making it “possible to index private markets just like we do now with the S&P 500”.
This is cool stuff. Acopia, from Melbourne 🌙 m.youtube.com/watch?v=9XRu...
Been working for some time on fintech policymaking with fantastic colleagues at AMBS and Telfer. Look forward to presenting at the Journal of Association for Information Systems (JAIS) workshop on Creating Policy Impact through Information Systems (IS) Research. #fintech #AI #blockchain #IS #policy
Excited to share that The Cambridge Global Handbook of Financial Infrastructure, co-edited with Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn and Barbara Brandl, is on its way!
Expected publication date is May 2025.
www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
My article Asset Manager Capitalism and the Political Economy of AI now has a home in Review of IPE—with volume and issue numbers! 🤓 If you're interested in exploring AI-driven market power and ways to democratize the age of AI, check it out and let’s connect! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The philosopher Carl Mitcham distinguishes between engineering and humanities approaches to tech philosophy. The first sees tech as an efficiency tool. The second asks whether a given tech is desirable and just. I'm leaving it there. Use it as you please to interpret AI, current affairs, etc.
Tired of the World Surf League CT and QS model. I'd like to see 5-10 top surfers on the most beautiful waves: Pipe, Teahupo'o, Cloudbreak, JBay
A 3-hour, 31-minute, and 23-second-long deep dive into LLMs by Andrej Karpathy. Just, WOW! www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
Developing classes for a new course titled Organizing and Managing Change in the Digital Age. It's nice to go back to Orlikowski's duality of tech. A truly foundational statement.
"The most damaging consequence of the contemporary financial system is not simply recurrent financial crises, but a widening social divide between the haves and have-nots." Such an amazing book by Lin and Neely. Check it out. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Please do. Thank you! :D
Going back to the good old financialization debate, do you like this definition I always had in mind but never used? "Financialization is the increasing role of market-based, risk-oriented finance in human activities and the environment." Feel free to suggest edits 😊
