From the Hawthorne Plant Experiments to AI and Humans
Keynotes II.a – running in parallel
Born in NYC, Bruce Kogut grew up in north Los Angeles, leaving home for UC Berkeley at age 17, where he studied humanities and political science, and later, public policy at Columbia, and economics and finance at MIT for his PhD. A dual national (American-Swedish), he lived in Sweden, (East and West) Germany, and France, while working at several different academic and research institutions. Along with Udo Zander, he contributed the idea of firms and organizations as social communities embedding the creation, sharing, and diffusion of tacit knowledge. He developed this theme through empirical and formal work on capabilities of firms as options (with Nalin Kulatilka). Subsequently, he reverted to social sciences, including the introduction of “small world” topologies to the study of power and control in national and global networks, resulting in “Small Worlds of Governance”, MIT Press. More recently, he published on AI-Human Teams (Mario Meets AI, RE Stat) and on political language in economics (Econ. J). He is the founder of ISEP (Insead’s Social Enterprise Program) and has been on corporate, non-profit, and advisory boards in several countries. . He thanks the CRG, Tu Weiming, Lewis Edinger, Suzanne Berger, Michael Piore, Fischer Black, Jurgen Kocka, and Herve Dumez for inspiration, and INSEAD and EURAM for the honor of the Edith Penrose Award. Bruce dedicates his talk today to Barbara Czarniawska.