Tania Babina believes AI can empower workers, especially those with data analysis and IT expertise, to grow and expand their skill sets. The Assistant Professor of Business in the Finance Division at CBS, Babina was quoted by CNBC in an article discussing how the future of work will benefit highly skilled employees with nontraditional educational backgrounds.
In the article titled “Now hiring: ‘New-collar’ workers, no degree necessary,” personal finance writer Jessica Dickler describes how artificial intelligence is helping companies reimagine the role of the average worker. Dickler taps into the research of Tania Babina, who teaches the Entrepreneurial Finance course at Columbia Business School, and explores drivers of entrepreneurship and factors predicting entrepreneurial success, specifically within AI and Business Analytics, Corporate Finance, Entrepreneurship & Innovation, and Labor Markets.
Learn how individuals in key industries such as health care, engineering, technology, and software, despite their education, are poised to benefit and become highly employable thanks to AI in the workplace.
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Tania Babina
Professor Tania Babina joined the Columbia Business School in 2016. She received a Ph.D. from the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina. Her research is at the juncture of corporate finance, labor economics, and entrepreneurship. More broadly, she studies inter-relationship between human capital and firm investment, financing, and organizational choices. Her current research explores drivers of entrepreneurship and factors predicting entrepreneurial success. Long-term, she seeks to understand how human capital affects the nature of a firm and firm boundaries.