Rotman School Books Honoured with Axiom Business Book Awards.

Meltdown: Why Our Systems Fail and What We Can Do About It (Penguin, 2018) received a silver medal in the Business Commentary category. The book is co-authored by András Tilcsik, Associate Professor of Strategic Management and Canada Research Chair in Strategy, Organizations, and Society and his colleague Chris Clearfield of System Logic. In the book they describe the common elements of systemic breakdowns and how to navigate them.

Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence (Harvard Business Review Press, 2018) received a silver medal in the Business Intelligence/Innovation category.  The book recasts the rise of AI as a drop in the cost of prediction and shows how basic tools from economics provide clarity about the AI revolution and a basis for action by CEOs, managers, policy makers, investors, and entrepreneurs. The authors are Ajay Agrawal, Geoffrey Taber Chair in Entrepreneurship and Innovation and Professor of Strategic Management; Joshua Gans, Jeffrey S. Skoll Chair of Technical Innovation and Entrepreneurship and Professor of Strategic Management; and, Avi Goldfarb, Rotman Chair in Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare and Professor of Marketing.