Content written by Prabhu Guptara and published by Global Focus, The EFMD Magazine
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Extracted Content: In January 2018, I started a research project to understand how business schools are responding to the new world of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and to assess whether our graduates are really being prepared for the world that current “supertechnologies” are bringing into being.
I abandoned the research project due to a lack of response from the leading business schools I approached, who all claimed to be too busy with other priorities. Yet as I sit down to write this article, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg are the three richest men in the world. Each of them made his fortune via technology. None of them studied at business school. Two points arise from the above that are relevant for us in business schools:
1. Technology is today’s single-greatest wealth creator
2. Business schools ignore tech at their peril