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Think You’re a Good Leader? Try Leading an AI Team

Researchers found that an AI-based assessment closely tracked leaders’ impact on human teams. Judging a leader with a successful team is like judging the conductor of a great orchestra: the outcome reflects both the person directing the group and the abilities of everyone around them. Measuring leadership therefore requires a way to separate the individual’s […]

Open and User Innovation Conference 2026: AI and the Organization of Knowledge

Firms were built to control scarce knowledge. AI is testing that premise from the inside.

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Three Tips and One Warning When Measuring What AI Returns

In recent conversations with my executive education students and clients, across sectors and around the world, the exploding cost of AI has been the dominant theme. In this memo you’ll find three pointers that can help you navigate AI spending and ROI.

Leaders: AI Adoption is Up to You

Leaders: AI Adoption is Up to You

Open and User Innovation Conference 2026: Democratizing Innovation, Again?

The HBS AI Institute’s co-founder explains how AI is redrawing the boundaries of economics, talent, and innovation.

How AI Agents Are Changing the Way We Work

New research shows the next wave of AI expands both productivity and the scope of work.

The Gender Divide in Generative AI: A Global Challenge [Update]

A sweeping review finds persistent gender gaps in generative AI adoption across countries, jobs, and tools.

The Case-Method Test for AI

How a new benchmark uses business schools’ signature teaching tool to measure AI against the analytical work careers are built on.

Open Weights and the New Economics of Inference

For months this column has circled a question: as AI agents do more of your work, who controls the meter? In April, Uber disclosed that it had used up its entire 2026 AI budget in four months, after an agentic coding tool spread to roughly 5,000 engineers faster than finance had modeled, and it capped […]

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