Harvard Business School faculty are augmenting the school’s signature case method by integrating artificial intelligence simulations, avatars, and live exercises into its classrooms — an expansion of the school’s AI push that now extends beyond a single required course.
The efforts build on HBS’s introduction last year of Data Science and AI for Leaders, a required first-year course. But AI integration has since spread across hallmark classes in marketing, entrepreneurship, and organizational behavior, reshaping how students prepare for and participate in case discussions.
“We have a lot of live AI case exercises we’ve built and deployed in class,” said HBS professor Mitchell B. Weiss, describing “AI-based simulations, AI-based avatars, a sort of AI-based building” now used in the classroom.
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