Short Bio of Professor Anindya Ghose:
Anindya Ghose is the Heinz Riehl Chair Professor of Business at New York University's Leonard N. Stern School of Business where he holds a joint appointment in the TOPS and Marketing departments. He is the Director of the Masters of Business Analytics Program at NYU Stern. He is a Leonard Stern Faculty Scholar with an MBA scholarship (the Ghose Scholarship) named after him. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Wharton School of Business. In 2014, he was named by Poets & Quants as one of the Top 40 Professors Under 40 Worldwide and by Analytics Week as one of the Top 200 Thought Leaders in Big Data and Business Analytics. He is the youngest recipient of the prestigious INFORMS ISS Distinguished Fellow Award. In 2017, he was recognized by Thinkers50 as one of the Top Management Thinkers globally most likely to shape the future of how organizations are managed and led in the next generation. In 2019, he was recognized by Web of Science citation Index in the Top 1% of researchers selected for their significant influence in their fields over a 10-year period (2008-2018). In 2020, he was recognized by the INFORMS Information Systems Society (ISS) with the inaugural Practical Impacts Award. This award honors business school academics who have demonstrated outstanding leadership and sustained impact on the industry by deeply influencing practitioners, managers, executives, and policymakers using their academic research. In 2022, he became the youngest recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award from IIM Calcutta in its 58-year history. He received the AIS Fellow Award in 2022 and the INFORMS ISS President's Service Award in 2024.
Seminar Topic: How Academic Research Influences Global Litigations in AI, Antitrust and Privacy
Seminar Abstract: This seminar by Professor Anindya Ghose of NYU Stern will discuss how methodologies and academic papers (including by IS researchers) are influencing high stakes antitrust and privacy litigations launched by the US and European governments against tech firms such as Google, Meta, and Apple. Leveraging his ringside testifying experiences in these high-stakes global litigation over the last 5 years, Anindya will dissect these landmark antitrust and privacy cases, and showcase his role as an expert witness. The talk will also include touchbase on potential antitrust trust issues emerging in the AI ecosystem based on his new book Thrive: Maximizing Well Being in the Age of AI.