AI and Transformative Tech
The Missing Link in AI Adoption
Managing employees’ AI-related stress is the key to unlocking the technology’s potential.
FEATURED INITIATIVE
AI In Business Initiative
We are expanding education, innovation and knowledge at the intersection of business and artificial intelligence.
Cross-disciplinary Research
Columbia Business School faculty research explores AI's impact on emerging markets, business strategy, consumer behavior, organizational design, and human-AI collaboration — generating actionable insights for today and tomorrow.
Curriculum Integration
Columbia Business School is driving curricular innovation by strategically integrating artificial intelligence into business education across all degree programs. This initiative equips students with both advanced technical expertise and the critical thinking skills needed to lead in an AI-driven economy.
Industry Perspective
Real-world AI innovation is part of the Columbia Business School experience. Students engage with executives and technologists, gaining practical insights and inspiration to foster ongoing collaborations that bridge the gap between theory and practice, advancing the state of the art.
Events, Ideas & Research
Explore the events, labs, and faculty research driving CBS's AI in Business Initiative, along with the latest insights, publications, and discoveries shaping the future of business.
About the Initiative
The AI in Business Initiative positions Columbia Business School at the forefront of helping leaders navigate and thrive in the age of artificial intelligence.
AI and Data Analytics Pathway
Explore our AI and Data Analytics Pathway, an innovative curriculum that spans foundational data analysis through generative AI, with courses designed for learners at all skill levels.
Videos
See how CBS is preparing future leaders to harness the power of artificial intelligence in business and innovation.
New: Digital Twins Lab
The Digital Twins Lab explores digital twin technology and its real-world use cases with a commitment to transparency, independence, interdisciplinary collaboration, rigor, and accessibility.
Other Affiliated Labs
Advancing research is central to the initiative. Focusing on key areas, we address some of the most pressing and complex questions surrounding artificial intelligence.
AIB Digest
AI in Business Digest brings you the latest research, thought leadership, and practical insights from Columbia Business School on how artificial intelligence is transforming industries and organizations.
Explore the Insights
AI and Transformative Tech
Why AI Is a Different Kind of Shock to Health
Columbia Business School professor Dante Donati explains the guardrails needed to ensure AI improves outcomes rather than deepening inequality.
AI and Transformative Tech
Cracking AI's Healthcare Code: Prof. Hongseok Namkoong on Moving From Information to Intelligence
Today's AI systems are powered by vast models trained on data from across the internet. But this approach has stalled in the complex and critical field of healthcare, because while AI excels at retrieving facts, it falls short in handling the nuanced realities of clinical environments.
Data/Big Data, AI and Transformative Tech, Marketplace
Uncovering the Costly Bias in Marketplace Testing
Statistical bias could be misleading your product and feature testing, according to research from Columbia Business School Professor Hannah Li, but solutions might be easier than you think.
Algorithms, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Business and Society, Business Economics and Public Policy, Data and Business Analytics, AI and Transformative Tech, Digital IQ, Finance, Marketing, Marketplace
Designing Smarter Economic Systems: A New Approach to Mechanism Design
Award-winning research from Professor Laura Doval tackles the “limited commitment” problem in economics, offering a model that helps governments and firms adjust rules and strategies based on new information over time.
Artificial Intelligence, Data and Business Analytics, Data/Big Data, AI and Transformative Tech, Digital IQ, Marketing, Technology
How Gen AI Is Transforming Market Research
The technology provides faster, cheaper, and scalable ways to gather data and generate insights. In this article, Professor Olivier Toubia and his co-researchers offer a guide to the most promising opportunities.
Data and Business Analytics, Data/Big Data, AI and Transformative Tech, Digital IQ, Marketing, Media and Technology
How Real-Time Click Data Drives Smarter Personalization
New Columbia Business School research reveals how analyzing real-time customer journey data — from search queries to filtering behavior — can predict preferences with remarkable accuracy, even without historical data.
Algorithms, Data and Business Analytics, AI and Transformative Tech, Marketing, Marketplace, Media and Technology
Why a TikTok Ban Would Boost Meta’s Ad Prices—and Hurt Small Businesses
In new research, Professors Dante Donati and Hortense Fong find that the brief TikTok outage in January benefited Meta as advertisers turned to its platforms to reach users. Small businesses, less able to switch, lost out.
AI+Healthcare: From Potential to Impact
The AI revolution in healthcare is here. The greatest challenge is no longer potential—it is execution.
THE FUTURE OF HEALTH
AI+Healthcare Initiative
Columbia Business School’s AI+Healthcare Initiative is charting the future of healthcare by blending visionary thinking with expertise in data, delivery, and systems. Together, we can build a bridge from the promise of AI to solutions that transform care for all of us.