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How AI Helps Scale Qualitative Customer Research

Date Published
April 6, 2026
Section
In the Media
Areas of Expertise
AI & Transformative Tech Artificial Intelligence (AI) Marketing
From:
CBS In the News

Columbia Business School’s Olivier Toubia co-authored a Harvard Business Review article examining how AI-powered interviewers are transforming qualitative customer research. The authors explain that AI enables companies to conduct rich, adaptive interviews with thousands of participants quickly and at lower cost, expanding the scale and depth of insights available to organizations. Their analysis highlights how generative AI is reshaping traditional research methods by making qualitative data more accessible, efficient, and actionable.

 

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Photo of Prof. Olivier Toubia

Olivier Toubia

Glaubinger Professor of Business
Marketing Division
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Harvard Business Review
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