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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 […]

The Safety-First Scorecard

Future Proof with AI

Cracking AI Content Creation

A large-scale study shows why perceived artificiality may be the new creative risk.

Out of the Loop?

The case for rethinking when humans should review AI output

Does Your AI Work? Test It Where It Lives

A new framework argues that AI evaluation should start where AI actually gets used.