I am an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Irvine at the Paul Merage School of Business. I am also affiliated with Stanford University. I was a postdoctoral scholar at the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard housed within the Digital, Data, and Design institute at Harvard Business School.
My research interests lie in economic, social and behavioral aspects around technology, such as artificial intelligence, and open source software under the broader theme of innovation, with the aim of better understanding strategic aspects for large, medium-sized, and entrepreneurial firms.
Contact: manuel.hoffmann@uci.edu
Open Source Software, Artificial Intelligence, and Digital Technology
Generative AI and the Nature of Work - HBS Version, NBER Version (w/ Sam Boysel, Frank Nagle, Sida Peng, and Kevin Xu) - R&R at Management Science
The Value of Open Source Software - HBS (w/ Frank Nagle and Yanuo Zhou)
Labor Competition and Open Innovation - Wharton (w/ Sam Boysel and Frank Nagle)
Analog Technology, Firm Campaigns, Preferences & Health
Vaccines at Work: Experimental Evidence from a Firm Campaign - IZA Version (w/ Adrian Chadi and Roberto Mosquera) - Management Science
Television, Health, and Happiness - NBER (w/ Adrian Chadi) - R&R at Journal of Public Economics
Fairness Preferences Revisited (w/ Yinjunjie Zhang, Raisa Sara, and Catherine Eckel) - Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
Other
The Pro-Russian Conflict and its Impact on Stock Returns in Russia and the Ukraine (Matthias Neuenkirch) - International Economics and Economic Policy
Media
Advisor Perspectives, Axios, Bloomberg, Business-Insider, Charterworks, D^3, Evoknow, GitHub, Financial Times, Forbes, Fortune, Harvard Business Review, HBS Working Knowledge 1, HBS Working Knowledge 2 , Heise, Joomla, Kitware, Matt Hartmann Podcast, Marginal Revolution, Medium, MIT Digital Iniative, Network Law Review, Sysdig, The Stack, The Software Report, Tidelift, Towards Data Science, Open Logistics Foundation, UC Irvine, Wikipedia, World Bank, Yahoo, Youtube
UC Irvine AI Mini Workshop Organizer. Website here.
HBS Case Study. AGENTS.inc: Pathways to Growth at an AI Startup
Mozilla Statement on Open Source AI. One of the Initial Signers
Stanford Survey. Informed Population Health Opinions (Expert Panel with AI responses)