Notable articles I have commissioned & edited, or written:
(in MIT Sloan Management Review)
Interviews:
Nobel Laureate Busts the AI Hype – video interview with Daron Acemoglu. 2024. (500k+ YouTube views — MIT SMR’s most-viewed video to date)
Balancing Innovation and Risk in the Age of AI – interview with Monica Caldas, CIO of Liberty Mutual
Leading an Industrial Giant Through Volatility – interview with Sameer Bharadwaj, CEO of Orbia
Navigating Sustainability in an Uncertain Landscape – interview with Kristina Wyatt, Chief Sustainability Officer of Persefoni. Fall 2025.
Building an AI Platform for the Future – interview with Shishir Mehrotra, CEO of Grammarly. Summer 2025
Taking Open Source into the AI Era – interview with Mark Surman, President of Mozilla. Spring 2025.
Tackling Challenges with Data Governance – interview with Akira Bell, CIO of Mathematica. Fall 2024.
Keeping Innovation Alive at a Legacy Organization – interview with Kevin Nolan, CEO of GE Appliances. Summer 2024.
Why You Should Give Employees Skin in the Game – interview with Vicente Reynal, CEO and Chairman of Ingersoll Rand. Spring 2024.
The Surprising Viability of the Four Day Workweek – interview with Juliet B. Schor, economist and sociologist at Boston College
What an FTC Noncompete Ban Could Mean for Workers and Businesses by Kaushik Viswanath (Q&A with Evan Starr, University of Maryland). Feb. 22, 2023.
Why the Power of Technology Rarely Goes to the People by Kaushik Viswanath (Q&A with Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson, authors of Power and Progress). Aug. 28, 2023.
Written by me in Radar (front-of-book section of MIT SMR):
When Brands Wear an Insult as a Badge of Honor. Spring 2026.
Three Things to Know About Learning by Hiring. Spring 2026.
Three Things to Know About Managing Innovation in Hybrid Teams. Fall 2025.
Three Things to Know About M&As and Technology. Spring 2025.
Three Things to Know About Incentivizing CEOs. Winter 2024.
Reality Check: Generative AI’s Impact on Work. Fall 2024.
Three Things to Know About Prompting LLMs. Summer 2024
Articles:
Building Innovation Teams Across National Borders by Solon Moreira, Ram Mudambi, and Deepak Nayak. Sept. 9, 2025. (2026 Azbee National Gold Award Winner)
Gain Consumer Insight with Generative AI by Neeraj Arora, Ishita Chakraborty, and Yohei Nishimura. April 8, 2026.
Why Mergers Fail and How to Spot Trouble Early by Henrik Cronqvist and Désirée-Jessica Pély. Feb. 18, 2026.
How to Profit From Retro-Innovation by Vijay Govindarajan, Tojin T. Eapen, and Gautham Vadakkepatt. Feb. 10, 2026.
What AI Can Teach Us About Designing Better KPIs by Balázs Kovács. Jan. 2026.
What Stablecoin Regulation Means for Business by Christian Catalini. November 2025.
The Forces That Shape AI’s Uneven Progress by Will Drover and Laura Huang. Nov. 18, 2025.
From Employee-Owners to Environmental Champions by Jegoo Lee. Oct. 13, 2025.
The Hidden Costs of Coding With Generative AI by Edward Anderson, Geoffrey Parker, and Burcu Tan. Aug. 18, 2025.
The B2B Opportunity in Corporate Sustainability by Tensie Whelan and David Linich. Jul. 16, 2025.
Use Design Choices to Prevent Imitation by Samuel C. MacAulay and Dmitry Sharapov. May 27, 2025.
The New Rules of Doing Business With China by Dan Prud’homme and Max von Zedtwitz. May 20, 2025.
How to Turn Professional Services Into Products by Mohanbir Sawhney. Apr. 10, 2025.
The Missing Link Between Purpose and Performance by Rodolphe Durand, Pauline Asmar, and Jean-Marc Laouchez. Aug. 21, 2025.
A Better Way to Avoid Project Delays by Matej Lorko, Maroš Servátka, and Le Zhang. 2025.
Improve Workflows by Managing Bottlenecks by Samina Karim, Chi-Hyon Lee, and Manuela N. Hoehn-Weiss. 2025.
Cutting Last-Mile Delivery Costs by Stanley Frederick W.T. Lim. Nov. 20, 2025.
The Hidden Battle for IP Protection in Alliances by Jens-Christian Friedmann, Dovev Lavie, Linda Rademaker, and Andrew Shipilov. 2025.
The Chevron Doctrine Is Dead. What Are the Implications for Business? by David Zimmer. Jul. 30, 2024.
Auditing Algorithmic Risk by Cathy O’Neil, Jake Appel, and Sam Tyner-Monroe. Jun. 11, 2024. (cover story, Summer 2024 issue)
When Generative AI Meets Product Development by Tucker J. Marion, Mahdi Srour, and Frank Piller. Jul. 29, 2024.
Tap Employee-Creators to Transform Your Social Media Strategy by Aaron Dinin. May 15, 2024.
Know Your Data to Harness Federated Machine Learning by José Parra-Moyano, Karl Schmedders, and Maximilian Werner. 2024.
Will Large Language Models Really Change How Work Is Done? by Peter Cappelli, Prasanna (Sonny) Tambe, and Valery Yakubovich. Mar. 5, 2024.
Who Profits the Most From Generative AI? by Kartik Hosanagar and Ramayya Krishnan. Mar. 12, 2024.
Own Your Words to Gain Authority by David Hollis and Alex Wright. Mar. 12, 2024.
Using Federated Machine Learning to Overcome the AI Scale Disadvantage by Yannick Bammens and Paul Hünermund. 2024.
The Business Cost of the Shrinking STEM Research Pipeline by Chris Carr and Dave Christy. 2024.
Why Territorial Managers Stifle Innovation — and What to Do About It by Vijaya Venkataramani, Rellie Derfler-Rozin, Xin Liu, and Jih-Yu Mao. 2024.
Why Great Ideas Die on Managers’ Desks — and How to Save Them by Vijaya Venkataramani and Kathryn M. Bartol. 2024.
The Working Limitations of Large Language Models by Mikhail Burtsev, Martin Reeves, and Adam Job. Nov. 30, 2023.
What Managers Everywhere Must Know About Caste by Hari Bapuji, Kamini Gupta, Snehanjali Chrispal, and Thomas Roulet. Nov. 1, 2023.
Cashing Out Excellence by Robert D. Austin, Robert H. Hayes, and Richard L. Nolan. Summer 2023.
(in Fast Company:)
“The Complicated Business Legacy of GE’s Jack Welch” by Kaushik Viswanath (review of William D. Cohan’s Power Failure). Fast Company. Nov 16, 2022.
“Silicon Valley’s Brain Drain is Bringing Innovation Back to Small Cities” by Kaushik Viswanath (Q&A with Steve Case). Fast Company. Oct 6, 2022.
(in Marker, a Medium publication:)
“The Limits of John Mackey’s Brand of Enlightened Capitalism” by David Zax. Oct 19, 2020.
“3 Ways to Prepare for a Future You Can’t Predict” by Annie Duke. June 5, 2020.
“How Jio Became the Darling of Silicon Valley” by Vedica Kant. Aug 3, 2020.
“The New Hot Startups Will Be Camels, Not Unicorns” by Alexandre Lazarow. April 3, 2020.
(from the Read Like a Boss series*:)
“How Understanding Hackers Changed This Entrepreneur’s Life” by Jay Graber. Feb 14, 2020.
“How Phil Knight’s Nike Memoir Inspired My Approach to VC Investing” by Nicole Quinn. Feb 28, 2020.
(from the business book retrospective series*:)
“It’s Finally Time to Retire Good to Great from the Leadership Canon” by Margaret Heffernan. Mar 22, 2021.
“David Graeber’s Debt Shows Us How to Think About the Post-Pandemic, Climate Crisis Economy” by Margaret Heffernan. July 20, 2021.
“What Everyone Got Wrong About The Long Tail” by Marina Krakovsky. Nov 20, 2020.
(book Q&As:)
“How Uber and Airbnb Created a Parasite Economy” by Kaushik Viswanath (Q&A with Juliet B. Schor, author of After the Gig). Sept 14, 2020.
“How Netflix Exported Its Unusual Corporate Culture Across the Globe” by Kaushik Viswanath (Q&A with Erin Meyer, coauthor of No Rules Rules. Dec 17, 2020.
“Why Corporate America Gave Up on R&D” by Kaushik Viswanath (Q&A with Ashish Arora and Sharon Belenzon, professors at the Duke Fuqua School of Business). July 7, 2020.
(from the I Read It So You Don’t Have To series*:)
“I Read It So You Don’t Have To: An Ugly Truth” by Kaushik Viswanath. Aug 9, 2021.
“I Read It So You Don’t Have To: Former GE CEO’s Memoir” by Kaushik Viswanath. Mar 15, 2021.
“I Read It So You Don’t Have To: The Data Detective” by Kaushik Viswanath. Mar 1, 2021.
(The Number Crunch daily series*)
* Number Crunch, I Read It So You Don’t Have To, Read Like a Boss, and the business book retrospective series were primarily conceived, developed, and executed by me for Marker, Medium’s business publication .)
(for Medium’s Stop Asian Hate pop-up blog:)
“Who Counts as Asian, and What Counts as Anti-Asian Hate?” by Jennifer Lee and Karthick Ramakrishnan. May 20, 2021.
“How the ‘Forever Foreigner’ Stereotype Unifies the Asian American Experience” by AAPI Data. May 13, 2021.
Notable books I have edited and/or acquired:
(all published by Portfolio, an imprint of Penguin Random House)
PARTNERING by Jean Oelwang (March 2022)
FROM STRENGTH TO STRENGTH by Arthur Brooks (Feb 2022)
THE SCOUT MINDSET by Julia Galef (April 2021)
LISTEN LIKE YOU MEAN IT by Ximena Vengoechea (March 2021)
THE INNOVATION STACK by Jim McKelvey (March 2020)
LEADERSHIP IS LANGUAGE by L. David Marquet (February 2020, Amazon Best Business Books of 2020 Pick)
OBSESSED by Emily Heyward (June 2020, Porchlight Business Book Award Winner)
FIX THIS NEXT by Mike Michalowicz (April 2020, WSJ Bestseller)
PERSONALITY ISN’T PERMANENT by Benjamin Hardy (June 2020)
THE 3-MINUTE RULE by Brant Pinvidic (October 2019)
SECRETS OF SAND HILL ROAD by Scott Kupor (June 2019)
SUBSCRIBED by Tien Tzuo with Gabe Weisert (June 2018)
GROWTH IQ by Tiffani Bova (August 2018)
REGULATORY HACKING by Evan Burfield with J.D. Harrison (June 2018)
PROFIT FIRST by Mike Michalowicz (February 2017)
CLOCKWORK by Mike Michalowicz (August 2018)
FINDING MY VIRGINITY by Richard Branson (October 2017)
THE CHALLENGER CUSTOMER by Brent Adamson and Matthew Dixon (September 2015)
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