EISM (European Institute of Science in Management) works with industry, academia, and government to deliver  science-based solutions  to the world’s most pressing management challenges.

Our current work centres on collective decision-making in AI agents and people, using both classical and quantum computation. As the scientific coordinator of European City², a research project funded by the European Union, we are especially interested in how self-interest and altruism interact in democracy, an extension of our long-standing work on Competitive Cooperation (more below).

Our recent papers ask when a decision needs a second source of information beyond the evidence at hand, and when that second source is redundant. “Dual Boundary Condition Inference: A Two-Boundary Product Rule and Its Implications” (with Eliahu Cohen) gives the mathematics, including a test for when the second source adds nothing. “Additional Information and Time to Use It: Two-Boundary Recoverability” (under review) asks when extra information still arrives in time to correct an error. We apply these tools to domains like voting, where the declared goal of a community decides what counts as a better outcome, and quantum error correction, where the goal decides which information gets protected.

We are in constant dialogue with thinkers across many fields, and feel a special connection to those committed to the long-term flourishing of individuals and humanity as a whole. In The Definitive Management Book, we set forth the conceptual and mathematical symmetries we see between fundamental physics, artificial intelligence and human flourishing.

Since 2010, we have delivered seminars and training at more than 150 companies and universities across Europe.

Our mission is to promote human flourishing through a better understanding of science and its implications for management.

Competition: We believe free market competition is the key to human flourishing.
Cooperation: We believe the most important free market is the market for cooperation.
Measurement: We believe that competitive cooperation should be measured and rewarded.

Our values serve as a bulwark and guarantee that we will accomplish our mission:

Reason: we are an organization with ideas and solutions that are rigorously backed by science.
Coherence: In our science and in our values, we are impatient with conflicts of principle.
Integrity: amid the complexities of human interaction, we have the courage to be direct and honest.
Excellence: We are relentless in our never-ending pursuit of clarity and simplicity.

Our logo is a Poincaré conformal disk modeled on the work of M.C. Escher. It is also a mathematical representation of the so-called «dS/dS correspondence», which emerges from a branch of theoretical physics known as string theory.

Among other things, the dS/dS correspondence conjectures the symmetry and holography that characterizes the universe at its most foundational level. (Dong, Silverstein, and Torroba, 2018).

At EISM, we pride ourselves on being early adopters of a family-and-environmentally friendly approach to Corporate Social Responsibility. From our founding in 2010, a full decade before the Covid pandemic, our aim has been to provide ourselves and others with the opportunity to build thriving professional lives around a firm commitment to gender equality, environmental sustainability, and work-life balance. Download our full Gender-Equality Plan by clicking here.

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