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Lynn Wu

Associate Professor, The Wharton School, Upenn
Verified email at wharton.upenn.edu
Cited by 3863

Data analytics, innovation, and firm productivity

L Wu, L Hitt, B Lou - Management Science, 2020 - pubsonline.informs.org
We examine the relationship between data analytics capabilities and innovation using
detailed firm-level data. To measure innovation, we first utilize a survey to capture two types of …

The robot revolution: Managerial and employment consequences for firms

J Dixon, B Hong, L Wu - Management Science, 2021 - pubsonline.informs.org
As a new general-purpose technology, robots have the potential to radically transform
employment and organizations. In contrast to prior studies that predict dramatic employment …

Social network effects on productivity and job security: Evidence from the adoption of a social networking tool

L Wu - Information systems research, 2013 - pubsonline.informs.org
By studying the change in employees' network positions before and after the introduction of
a social networking tool, I find that information-rich networks (low in cohesion and rich in …

Data analytics supports decentralized innovation

L Wu, B Lou, L Hitt - Management Science, 2019 - pubsonline.informs.org
Data-analytics technology can accelerate the innovation process by enabling existing knowledge
to be identified, accessed, combined, and deployed to address new problem domains. …

[PDF][PDF] The future of prediction: How Google searches foreshadow housing prices and sales

L Wu, E Brynjolfsson - Economic analysis of the digital economy, 2015 - nber.org
Lynn Wu is assistant professor of operations and information management at The Wharton
School, University of Pennsylvania. Erik Brynjolfsson is the Schussel Family Professor at the …

Three-way complementarities: Performance pay, human resource analytics, and information technology

S Aral, E Brynjolfsson, L Wu - Management Science, 2012 - pubsonline.informs.org
We test for three-way complementarities among information technology (IT), performance
pay, and human resource (HR) analytics practices. We develop a principal–agent model …

Mining face-to-face interaction networks using sociometric badges: Predicting productivity in an it configuration task

L Wu, B Waber, S Aral, E Brynjolfsson, A Pentland - 2008 - archive.nyu.edu
Social network theories (eg Granovetter 1973, Burt 1992) and information richness theory (Daft
& Lengel 1987) have both been used independently to understand knowledge transfer in …

Herding and social media word-of-mouth

X Li, L Wu - Mis Quarterly, 2018 - JSTOR
Modern online retailing practices provide consumers with new types of real-time information
that can potentially increase demand. In particular, showing sales information to a customer …

AI on drugs: Can artificial intelligence accelerate drug development? Evidence from a large-scale examination of bio-pharma firms

B Lou, L Wu - Evidence from a Large-scale Examination of Bio …, 2021 - papers.ssrn.com
Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) could potentially reduce the complexities and costs in
drug discovery. Using a resource-based view, we conceptualize an AI innovation capability …

Frailty and risk of adverse outcomes in hospitalized older adults: a comparison of different frailty measures

…, E Ho, J Baldevarona-Llego, M Chan, L Wu… - Journal of the American …, 2017 - Elsevier
Objectives There is a paucity of data for the assessment of frailty in acutely ill hospitalized
older adults. We aim to (1) compare the performance of frailty measures [5-item scale of fatigue…