Top business schools are pushing M.B.A. candidates and undergraduates to use artificial intelligence as a second brain. Students are eager for the instruction as employers increasingly hire talent with AI skills.
Lindsay Ellis
Wall Street Journal
American University’s Kogod School of Business is putting an unusually high emphasis on AI, threading teaching on the technology through 20 new or adapted classes, from forensic accounting to marketing, which will roll out next school year.”
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It's quite remarkable because we're talking about a change in and addition to coursework, in curriculum, and the type of [job] a student might find themselves into that might not even be created yet."
Brad Smith
Yahoo! Finance
The initiative stands out for how concrete and extensive Kogod’s commitment will be to this transformative technology."
John Byrne
Poets & Quants
One of the biggest surprises is how fast Kogod was able to move on its initiative. “What I’m proud about is that we moved with private sector speed,” Marchick tells Poets&Quants. “After starting in December from scratch, we will have all of this in place for students coming in the fall. It shows that schools can move with speed. MIT and Stanford are way ahead on the research side. We are not trying to compete with them. But we are pushing faster and further on a student-focused approach.”
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Artificial intelligence is here to stay, and business students — not just computer science majors — need to know how to implement and use it beyond the classroom."
Nate Doughty
Washington Business Journal
That's the thesis of David Marchick, who, as the dean of American University's Kogod School of Business, announced on Tuesday that all students at Kogod will have AI "infused" into their respective degree program's curriculum starting next fall. These AI-focused educational materials will also be embedded into Kogod's training courses for faculty and staff members as well as into new certificate offerings, among other areas.”
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“It’s very important to teach our students the foundational concepts and theory behind current technology and practices,” [Gwanhoo] Lee said in an interview with The Eagle.
Tyler Davis
The Eagle Online
“But we cannot stop there, because this is a business school. So we need to be very practical and prepare our students to be able to be the leaders in digital economy.”
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Lakshmi Varanasi
Business Insider
As part of the initiative, Kogod will offer a slate of 20 new classes that span everything from forensic accounting to marketing."
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