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Presenting at Wharton AI & Future of Work Next Week

The project grew out of a pitch I made at SFI last year: how does technology reshape the work and organizational structure of firms? We have evidence of that transformation for software firms: LLM-adopting firms consolidate code evaluation and design into code generation roles, reducing coordination necessary between developers.

NBER Economics of Science Initiative Grant

Delighted to have been awarded the competitive NBER Economics of Science Initiative grant to study AI in a major European science funding agency.

Preprint!!!

A preprint of my work with Brian Uzzi and Henrik Fosse on how AI reshapes the innovation process is available on arXiv.

Coverage of our HBR article by Forbes

Thanks to Liz Elting for her coverage of our Harvard Business Review article in Forbes: Technical Skills Aren’t Enough—Why Soft Skills Lead To Higher Salaries In The AI Boom.

SFI Postdocs in Complexity Global Conference

I'll attend Santa Fe Institute Postdocs in Complexity Global Conference (Sep 15-18).

New in Harvard Business Review

Thrilled to share my new Harvard Business Review article, Why Soft Skills Matter More Than Ever (co-authored with Frank Neffke, Hyejin Youn, and Letian Zhang). Click to redirect to the article, or use link: https://hbr.org/2025/08/soft-skills-matter-now-more-than-ever-according-to-new-research

Alfred Sloan Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship Award

My research at Kellogg School will be supported by a Sloan Foundation Fellowship. With Prof. Brian Uzzi, I’ll explore how AI is transforming innovation & discovery—building on work around human capital, search strategies, org structures & resource allocation.

Skill dependencies uncover nested human capital Published in Nature Human Behaviour

My work with Frank Neffke, LT Zhang, and Hyejin Youn was published in Nature Human Behaviour in Feb 2025

AOM CTO Best Paper Award

My paper with Ali Tafti, Influence of Artificial Intelligence on Firm Innovation Behavior, is selected among the CTO Best Papers and appears in the conference proceedings: https://journals.aom.org/doi/10.5465/AMPROC.2024.288bp

Job Update

I will start as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Dept. of Management & Organizations of Kellogg School of Management in Jan 2024.

Preprint!

Dec 25, 2023 - ​Find our working paper: Moh Hosseinioun and Ali Tafti: Search Benefits of General Resources: Recombination Premiums of AI.