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Committed to the Future of Artificial Intelligence

Through cutting-edge curricular innovation, our MBA, Executive MBA, MS, and PhD programs introduce new courses and research that seamlessly integrate AI into the student experience. From exploring the impact of AI across industries to developing hands-on experience with the latest tools, students can build confidence in using the latest tech in their chosen fields.

AI plays a critical role in the rapidly evolving modern workplace, and with a curriculum that emphasizes its societal and business implications, students can fully prepare to lead in this rapidly evolving landscape. Explore how our students, faculty, centers and programs are engaging with AI at Columbia Business School.

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The Workplace
Date
May 12, 2025
Walmart Chief People Officer Donna Morris
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Management
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Bizcast: Walmart’s Chief People Officer Donna Morris on the Future of Work

In this episode, Morris joins CBS Professor Stephan Meier to discuss how Walmart is building a resilient, tech-powered, and people-led workplace.

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Artificial Intelligence
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May 05, 2025
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Business and Society
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Did AI Write That Pitch? The Impact of Generative AI on Hiring and Startup Evaluations

Research from Columbia Business School examines the challenges posed by generative AI in hiring and entrepreneurial pitching, offering insights into when AI helps — and when it hinders.

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Date
April 30, 2025
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The New Nuclear: How TerraPower Is Powering the Future of Clean Energy

Chris Levesque, President and CEO of TerraPower, explains how next-generation reactors and innovative energy storage are reshaping nuclear energy's role in the global transition to sustainability.

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April 17, 2025
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Designing Smarter Economic Systems: A New Approach to Mechanism Design

Award-winning research from Professor Laura Doval tackles the “limited commitment” problem in economics, offering a model that helps governments and firms adjust rules and strategies based on new information over time.

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Using AI to Enhance Human Motivation

Columbia Business School Professor Stephan Meier explains how leaders can calm AI-related concerns, while also creating value.

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  • AI can boost productivity and work-life balance through efficiency, but presents an equality paradox - potentially leveling the playing field or concentrating benefits among few while reducing overall jobs.
  • Future leaders (today's students) will determine AI's ultimate societal impact, making their understanding of these technologies crucial.
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How to Leverage AI in the Workplace

Columbia Business School Professor Olivier Toubia shares the many upsides – and downsides – of AI in the workplace.

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  • Generative AI has dual potential - it can increase productivity and improve work-life balance while leveling the playing field, but could also increase inequality by limiting jobs to a select few and reducing overall opportunities.
  • The ultimate impact of AI on society and business will be determined by future leaders, making it critical for today's students to understand AI as they will shape its societal effects.
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Using Generative AI to Change Your Mindset

Ashli Carter, a lecturer at Columbia Business School, explains one of the ways she uses AI to help students build resilience.

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  • AI text-to-image generation helps people visualize their "inner critic" as a tool for negotiating with their mindset.
  • AI visualization processes can create mental states more conducive to achieving personal goals.
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How AI is Breaking Barriers in Business

Columbia Business School Professor Omar Besbes explains how AI is democratizing workplace productivity.

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  • AI will significantly enhance human productivity across various areas while potentially decreasing barriers to entry in multiple industries.
  • Chatbots and AI systems are democratizing access to resources while simultaneously putting the art of asking good questions and follow-up questions back at center stage.
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AI Tools

AI is integrated into our courses in ways that support student’s projects and inspire rich class discussions. Tools like ChatGPT are used to assist in breaking down complex research techniques, run business simulations, visualize data in real time, and to show students to think in new ways and explore innovative solutions.

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Courses

At Columbia Business School, we introduce you to the methods and tools that organizations around the world use to leverage data and artificial intelligence. You will learn how these techniques work, and how to use them. The curriculum spans everything from basic data analysis to generative AI, and contains classes suitable for all skill levels.

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Resources

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping industries worldwide, and higher education is no exception. Much like other transformative innovations before it, AI-powered language models have introduced new opportunities and challenges, changing the way students learn and how instructors teach.

Samberg Institute

At Columbia Business School, the Arthur J. Samberg Institute for Teaching Excellence serves as a guiding force in this ongoing transformation, equipping faculty with the knowledge, tools, and strategies they need to leverage generative AI for effective teaching.

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Digital Future Initiative

The Digital Future Initiative focuses Columbia Business School’s world-class research and teaching on how technology is altering all industries and the fabric of daily life.

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Career Strategy

AI is changing the way we work, and the Career Management Center (Careers) at Columbia Business School has organized numerous AI-focused events and introduced AI-powered tools to help students and alumni adapt to these changes and achieve their long-term professional goals.

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Dan Wang

Dan Wang

Lambert Family Professor of Social Enterprise in the Faculty of Business
Management Division
Co-Director of the Tamer Institute for Social Enterprise and Climate Change
Tamer Institute for Social Enterprise and Climate Change
Gita Johar

Gita Johar

Meyer Feldberg Professor of Business
Marketing Division
Daniel Guetta

Daniel Guetta

Associate Professor of Professional Practice
Decision, Risk, and Operations Division
Director
Center for Pricing and Revenue Management and Business Analytics Initiative
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Carri Chan

John A. Howard Professor of Business
Decision, Risk, and Operations Division
Faculty Director Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Management Program
Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Management Program
Oded Netzer

Oded Netzer

Arthur J. Samberg Professor of Business
Marketing Division
Vice Dean for Research
Dean's Office
A. Carter

Ashli Carter

Lecturer in the Discipline of Management in the Faculty of Business
Management Division
Omar Besbes

Omar Besbes

Vikram S. Pandit Professor of Business
Decision, Risk, and Operations Division

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Strategic Targeting and Unequal Global Adoption of Artificial Intelligence

Authors
Dafna Bearson and Nataliya Wright
Date
April 11, 2025
Format
Working Paper

The rise of low-cost artificial intelligence (AI) technologies offers significant potential for businesses globally, yet AI adoption remains uneven. What shapes this unequal adoption? While prior work attributes adoption patterns to demand-side factors including physical costs and complementary assets, we theorize that AI entrepreneurs' strategic choice to target specific markets creates both search and perceived-fit frictions for firms outside of those markets.

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Words That Matter: Analyzing the Causal Effect of Words

Authors
Alain Lemaire, Mingzhang Yin, and Oded Netzer
Date
April 4, 2025
Format
Working Paper

Language plays a crucial role in marketing, influencing outcomes such as consumer engagement and decision-making. Although prior research has extensively analyzed the relationship between linguistic features and business outcomes, most approaches have been descriptive or predictive, limiting their value for crafting more effective content. Understanding the causal effects of specific linguistic features is essential but challenging because, in real-world settings, the focal textual feature often changes simultaneously with other confounding factors.

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Geoeconomic Pressure

Authors
Christopher Clayton, Antonio Coppola, Matteo Maggiori, and Jesse Schreger
Date
April 1, 2025
Format
Working Paper

Geoeconomic pressure—the use of existing economic relationships by governments to achieve geopolitical or economic ends—has become a prominent feature of global power dynamics. This paper introduces a methodology using large language models (LLMs) to systematically extract signals of geoeconomic pressure from large textual corpora. We quantify not just the direct effects of implemented policies but also the off-path threats that induce compliance without formal action. We systematically identify governments, firms, tools, and activities that are involved in this pressure.

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Wikipedia Contributions in the Wake of ChatGPT

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Liang Lyu, James Siderius, Hannah Li , Daron Acemoglu, Daniel Huttenlocher, and Asuman Ozdaglar
Date
March 2, 2025
Format
Journal Article
Journal
The ACM Web Conference 2025 (Formerly WWW)

How has Wikipedia activity changed for articles with content similar to ChatGPT following its introduction? We estimate the impact using differences-in-differences models, with dissimilar Wikipedia articles as a baseline for comparison, to examine how changes in voluntary knowledge contributions and information-seeking behavior differ by article content. Our analysis reveals that newly created, popular articles whose content overlaps with ChatGPT 3.5 saw a greater decline in editing and viewership after the November 2022 launch of ChatGPT than dissimilar articles did.

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The welfare impact of recommendation algorithms

Authors
Laura Doval and Alex Smolin
Date
March 1, 2025
Format
Journal Article
Journal
ACM SIGecom Exchanges

In this letter, we summarize our recent work on the welfare impact of recommendation algorithms and propose questions for further study. We model recommendation algorithms as an information structure, which shapes how a third party takes actions that affect the welfare of different individuals in a population. Each recommendation algorithm thus induces a welfare profile, describing the expected payoffs of different individuals when the third party takes actions following the algorithm.

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Better Innovation for a Better World

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Olivier Toubia
Date
Forthcoming
Format
Journal Article
Journal
Journal of Marketing

We aim to stimulate discussion on how innovation research within marketing can use a better world (BW) perspective to help innovation become a driver of positive change in the world. In this "Challenging the Boundaries" series paper, we hope to provide purposeful research opportunities for scholars seeking to bridge innovation research with the BW movement. We frame our discussion with four areas of innovation research in marketing that are particularly relevant to BW objectives.

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Algorithmic Pricing: Implications for Consumers, Managers, and Regulators

Authors
Martin Spann, Marco Bertini, Oded Koenigsberg, Robert Zeithammer, Diego Aparicio, Yuxin Chen, Fabrizio Fantini, Ginger Zhe Jin, Vicki Morwitz , Peter Popkowski Leszczyc, Maria Ana Vitorino, Gizem Yalcin Williams, and Hyesung Yoo
Date
January 15, 2025
Format
Working Paper
Explore how algorithmic pricing transforms business strategy through our comprehensive research examining implementation challenges, competitive dynamics, and regulatory considerations. Learn from executive interviews and surveys revealing strategic alignment opportunities for marketing teams.
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How Will AI Change The Teaching Model In Business Schools?

Authors
Shivaram Rajgopal
Date
January 5, 2025
Format
Newspaper/Magazine Article
Publication
Forbes

Our educational model is predicated on an expert lecturing to a class of attentive disciples. We rely on standardized repeated exams. As a junior accounting professor, I was encouraged to take a senior faculty member’s teaching notes and simply go and deliver the material. Rely on older exams or some variant thereof. Have a standard key to grade the exams. In essence, minimize the time spent on teaching so that I can work on research and get tenure. To be fair, my senior professors were watching out for me and were trying to put me on the shortest path to tenure.

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March 27, 2025

Here’s Some Advice for Airbnb Hosts: Smile in Your Profile Picture

Research by Columbia's Elizabeth Friedman reveals Airbnb hosts who smile in profile photos receive 3.5% more bookings, with male hosts seeing an 8.7% increase. The Wall Street Journal explores how smiling signals trustworthiness, especially benefiting inexperienced hosts and those in high-crime areas.

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Elizabeth Friedman

Elizabeth Friedman

Assistant Professor of Business
Marketing Division
Venture Beat
March 23, 2025

‘Gradually Then Suddenly’: Is AI Job Displacement Following This Pattern?

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Rita McGrath

Rita McGrath

Academic Director in Executive Education
Executive Education
AIScoop
March 18, 2025

Thinking of Adopting AI? Here’s How to Get Your Team on Board

We work with organizations to shape the “future of work” while overcoming common barriers to change implementation. As organizations set out major transformations, we both encourage and caution.

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Todd Jick, Senior Lecturer in Discipline in Business

Todd Jick

Senior Lecturer in Discipline in Business
Management Division
Reuben Mark Faculty Director of Organizational Character and Leadership
Bernstein Center for Leadership and Ethics
Decisionmaking & Negotiations Faculty
Stephan Meier

Stephan Meier

James P. Gorman Professor of Business; Chair of Management Division
Management Division
BBC Tech Decoded
February 3, 2025

'The wrong side of history' on AI

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Nataliya Wright

Nataliya L. Wright

Assistant Professor of Business
Management Division

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