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## Segment 1 — spine

## Article 20 — a020

# Mahdi Majbouri

**Profile.** Economist and [[entity-global-entrepreneurship-monitor]] (GEM) USA co-author focused on entrepreneurship and labor markets — the disciplinary lens behind the article's job-creation and hiring-expectation framing.

**Role in this source.** Co-author of the HBR article. His labor-economics orientation supports the article's emphasis on job creation (the 20+ hires definition) and workforce transitions.

**Attributed contributions (joint by-line):**
- Job-creation / hiring-expectation basis of [[concept-ambitious-entrepreneurs]] and [[claim-ambitious-innovation-rate]]
- Workforce-transition arguments in [[concept-human-ai-complementarity]] and [[action-shift-to-creative-roles]]
- Shared authorship of the [[framework-entrepreneurial-ai-adoption]] and all attributed quotes

**Enrichment reference:** Canonical ~ Babson College / related academic profile (biographical detail inferred from widely known affiliations).