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American Universitys 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..
Marchick, who uses ChatGPT to prep presentations to alumni and professors, ordered a review of Kogods coursework in December after Brett Wilson, a venture capitalist with Swift Ventures, visited campus and told students that they wouldnt lose jobs to AI, but rather to professionals who are more skilled in deploying it..
Officials and faculty at Columbia Business School and Duke Universitys Fuqua School of Business say fluency in AI will be key to graduates success in the corporate world, allowing them to climb the ranks of management..
Forty percent of prospective business-school students surveyed by the Graduate Management Admission Council said learning AI is essential to a graduate business degreea jump from 29% in 2022...
Business-school professors are now encouraging students to use generative AI as a tool, akin to a calculator for doing math..
