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AI in Practice

AI in Practice can help you stay ahead, with the latest from Harvard Business School AI Institute's faculty and affiliates.

Everyone Has AI. Which Firms are Going to Win?

New research shows that access to AI is not the same as knowing where to use it.

Claude Is Becoming the AI Coworker Business Leaders Have Been Waiting For

If you’re a business owner or senior leader, the most important shift this month is that AI is now capable of doing real work.

80 Apps in One Afternoon

AI Leadership Workshop – The Frontier Firm AI Initiative was designed around a simple conviction: the most important questions about AI in business can’t be answered in theory.

The Surprising Link Between AI Reasoning and Honesty

Exploring how the complexity of large language models acts as a moral safeguard.

GenAI + Productivity

Research indicates that knowledge workers have measurable performance gains when deploying Generative AI.

Why Your AI Strategy May Be Failing

Improving AI strategy execution and ROI – How companies can overcome the structural frictions that block AI at scale.

Can You Spot the Bot?

The importance of AI literacy in 2026 – new research reveals just how convincingly AI mimics humans.

The Power of AI Stopping Agents

How AI stopping agents create autonomous guardrails – when machine learning meets sales Psychology.

The New Influence War: How AI Could Hack Democracy

Navigating the risks of AI and democracy – What the rise of AI swarms reveals about the future of influence, information, and democratic resilience.

Collaborating with AI

Research indicates that AI-human collaboration is a complex interplay.