Harvard Business is introducing AI into entrepreneurship teaching. According to external media reports, an 8-week training camp for entrepreneurs at the school has begun to use the lecturer ' s AI digital split to provide individual feedback to participants in the simulation and board exercises.

Eight-week course price $699.

The course is called HBS Foundation at $699. The course still maintains a live and weekly interaction with lecturers, but in some of the practice scenes, the trainees are already facing the lecturer ' s AI version, not themselves.

Reports indicate that these figures were produced by the original company, HeyGen, and were used mainly for instant feedback from trainees in their entrepreneurial presentations. Harvard Business School is doing this, reflecting that higher education is trying to move the generation of AI from supporting answers to more specific teaching processes.

For road shows and board simulations

In the course design, AI has a HF exercise feedback role. Trainees can interact with digital lecturers during a simulation of a finance road or board meeting, followed by a weekly reality course.

The project leader Katharina Rings said that the AI form originally conceived by the team was closer to chat robots. However, following the roll-out of the pilot version, the student feedback indicated that they preferred to be guided by a clearer experience of interaction, and the course was then shifted to a digital divide.

The feedback was positive.

Sarah Kessler, a New York Times journalist, personally tested this feature. She gave a road show to the first copy of the AI by Jeff Bussgang, co-founder of Fribridge Capital, on the theme “Banana Uber”. The report mentions that this entrepreneurship scenario is not accepted, either by the real person Bussgang or by its digital divide.

However, Kessler also mentioned that the virtual version still had a clear mechanical sense of interaction, such as a slightly rigid smile when listening to road shows. Nevertheless, overall feedback from participants in the project was positive. Bussgang also acknowledged that his digital copy was “a little weird”, but at the same time indicated that students liked this form.