My name is Walter Frick and you can learn more about my background on the About page. Here are a few of the topics I’m interested in and some examples of my work:
Decision-making, prediction, and algorithms
What a study of video games can tell us about being better decision makers, Quartz ($)
Use this tool to overcome the biggest decision-making mistake, Quartz
What Research Tells Us About Making Accurate Predictions, HBR
Question Certainty, HBR
3 Ways to Make Better Decisions, HBR
Why I think the Vox crew is too cynical about bias and belief, blog
Here’s Why People Trust Human Judgment Over Algorithms, HBR
When Your Boss Wears Metal Pants, HBR
Entrepreneurship and innovation policy
Welfare Makes America More Entrepreneurial, The Atlantic
Why Cutting Taxes Won’t Make America More Innovative, HBR
Research: Want More Entrepreneurs? Make College Cheaper, HBR
If Your Kids Get Free Health Care, You’re More Likely to Start a Company, HBR
How France Used Unemployment Benefits to Kickstart Entrepreneurship, HBR
Obama Push on Advanced Manufacturing Stirs Economic Debate, MIT Technology Review
Inequality
Corporations in the Age of Inequality, HBR (edited)
Competition is on the Decline and It’s Fueling Inequality, HBR (interview with Jason Furman)
Understanding the Debate Over Inequality, Skills, and the Rise of the 1%, HBR
Corporate Inequality is the Defining Fact of Business Today, HBR
Do CEOs Really Have the Power to Raise Wages?, HBR
Are Successful CEOs Just Lucky?, HBR
Industry concentration, superstar firms, and market power
Software is Helping Big Companies Dominate, HBR
Making Sense of Our Very Competitive, Super Monopolistic Economy, HBR
A reading list on market power, superstar firms, and inequality, blog
Research: The Rise of Superstar Firms Has Been Better for Investors than for Employees, HBR (edited)
A Study of 16 Countries Shows That the Most Productive Firms (and Their Employees) Are Pulling Away from Everyone Else, HBR (edited)
Is Lack of Competition Strangling the U.S. Economy? HBR (edited)
The single, simple rule change that could force tech platforms to compete, Quartz
Why industries don’t get disrupted like they used to, Quartz
Future of media
Why AI Can’t Write This Article (Yet), HBR
Hacking consensus: How we can build better arguments online, Nieman Lab
Not just for news: HBR’s evergreen approach to newsletters, Digital Content Next
Machine learning and AI
Prediction Machines book, (edited)
The Simple Economics of Machine Intelligence, HBR (edited)
Andrew Ng: What AI Can and Can’t Do, HBR (edited)
A Guide to Solving Social Problems with Machine Learning, HBR (edited)
How AI Fits Into Your Data Science Team, HBR (interview with Hilary Mason)
How to Spot a Machine Learning Opportunity Even if You’re Not a Data Scientist, HBR (edited)
Managing Data Science (newsletter)
beyond the times 