# Toby Stuart ## Posts - [New Podcast](https://tobystuart.com/2025/08/01/new-podcast/): This is my first podcast. Edit or delete it, then start writing! - [New Post](https://tobystuart.com/2025/07/30/new-post/): This is my first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing! ## Pages - [Media](https://tobystuart.com/media/): Media Home Media ConversationS in the Media AI Commentary Read Statment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-46AhQhQwc4 Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard Toby joins the Armchair Expert to discuss attending Harvard Business School before knowing what business school was, the role of sanctioning mechanisms in a social hierarchy, and how circles of status can affect the value of works of art by millions of dollars. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZ_YcS6AxkI The Invisible Hierarchies that Rule Our World He and EconTalk’s Russ Roberts explore why hierarchies persist—reducing conflict, allocating scarce resources, and curating our overwhelming choices—and how endorsements, blurbs, and brands quietly steer our judgments, from bookstores to wine shops […] - [AI Research and Speaking](https://tobystuart.com/ai-research-and-speaking/): AI Research and Speaking Home AI Research and Speaking Artificial INtelligence Our Work My research group, teaching, corporate board, and advisory work are deeply focused on the organizational, strategic, and workforce-related implications of AI. We are deeply concerned with understanding and adjusting to the endless consequences of this once-in-human-history change.  I am the founding Chairman of the Workday AI Advisory board and advise multiple companies and AI adoption and strategy, Workday AI Advisory Board End of Incumbent Advantage? Legacy Finance + Gen‑AI DeepSeek Signals AI & Admissions Status AI Insights and Analyses Workday AI Advisory Board Boston Globe: AI & Pedigree […] - [Research](https://tobystuart.com/research/): Research Home Research Research Team Current & Past Research Papers I am best known for papers on tech entrepreneurship, innovation, and venture capital. My current research agenda is most focused on large-scale labor market data and the observable effects of gen AI on different dimensions of professional, scientific, and white collar work, as well as the myriad implications of AI for corporate organization and strategy. Throughout my career, I have had the immesurably good fortune of working with an outstanding set of students and collaborators. A partial list of current and prior collaborators includes Mathijs de Vaan, Yanbo Wang, Weiyi Ng, […] - [Book](https://tobystuart.com/book/): Book Home Book A riveting read on the power of social status. Toby Stuart is an eminent scholar, and this book shows how the respect we seek for ourselves and bestow on others carries far more weight than we realize Adam Grant #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again and Hidden Potential A fascinating exploration of status, and how small advantages end up compounding into vast inequalities. Anointed exposes the hidden hierarchies that govern everything from cultural fads to billion-dollar corporate mergers Jonah Berger bestselling author of Contagious and The Catalyst Anointed: The Extraordinary Effects of Social Status in a […] - [Home](https://tobystuart.com/): Author, Anointed Investigates social status and its spidery effects across all aspects of social, organizational, and economic life. From office meetings to the value of art to which scientific ideas and tech startups become important, Anointed shows how and why social status determines outcomes we often attribute to other factors. Discover More Unveiling the Hidden Networks of Power About the Book: Anointed Why do some people win so big? In Anointed, Stuart shows that success is often less about individual brilliance and more about networks, narrative, and perception. Drawing on riveting examples from tech, politics, science, and Hollywood, he reveals […] - [Sample Page](https://tobystuart.com/sample-page/): This is an example page. It’s different from a blog post because it will stay in one place and will show up in your site navigation (in most themes). Most people start with an About page that introduces them to potential site visitors. It might say something like this: Hi there! I’m a bike messenger by day, aspiring actor by night, and this is my website. I live in Los Angeles, have a great dog named Jack, and I like piña coladas. (And gettin’ caught in the rain.) …or something like this: The XYZ Doohickey Company was founded in 1971, […] [comment]: # (Generated by Hostinger Tools Plugin)