News Summary

• Harvard Business School is putting AI versions of its faculty to work in a startup bootcamp.
• The eight-week program is part of HBS Foundry, which Harvard describes as an "AI-native digital workspace" The "clones" include seven HBS professors and senior lecturers with backgrounds spanning venture capital, business-model design, board dynamics and startup strategy.
• So far, 760 founders have participated in the bootcamp, according to a Harvard spokesperson..
• The experiment falls into the growing dichotomy of how AI is addressed and used on campus.
• On one hand, professors have complained about students cheating on exams using AI.
• On the other hand, some universities are using AI to scale otherwise scarce faculty time into a digital product.