May 14, 2026
Delivering Value with AI: Business Model Transformation
Katia Meggiorin explores how AI is rewriting the rules of competition by analyzing two rival companies in the same industry—one traditional, and one heavily AI-driven.
This is an archive of all Business+AI Lab events in the past.
May 14, 2026
Katia Meggiorin explores how AI is rewriting the rules of competition by analyzing two rival companies in the same industry—one traditional, and one heavily AI-driven.
May 7, 2026
Aleksi Aaltonen explores what data are (or is), why their importance is going to grow, and what are the emerging trends and issues that organizations will need to tackle in the AI-driven economy.
Apr 30, 2026
Jordan Suchow looks at a key strategic decision that companies in the autonomous navigation space have all wrestled with: how to bootstrap a product when the data needed to train the system requires deploying it.
Apr 23, 2026
Zachary Feinstein explores the transition toward truly autonomous wealth management by bridging artificial intelligence with decentralized market structures.
Apr 16, 2026
Violet Chen introduces the AI ethics landscape and examines how principles of fairness, transparency, privacy, and accountability apply in real-world business decisions.
Apr 9, 2026
Michael zur Muehlen introduces a framework for understanding three AI deployment postures: AI-in-the-loop, AI-on-the-loop, and human-out-of-the-loop, raising hard questions about the point at which augmentation becomes automation.
Mar 31, 2026
The rapid proliferation of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is significantly reshaping the labor market. While existing literature primarily focuses on GenAI’s isolated effects on either labor demand (e.g., task automation) or labor supply (e.g., skill development), research exploring the combined, interactive effects on firm-labor dynamics remains limited.
Mar 13, 2026
Cybersecurity incidents and data breaches are increasingly common and pose significant financial risks for firms. This study examines how consumers respond to major data breach announcements and evaluates their economic consequences for affected companies. Using a difference-in-differences research design, we analyze a large-scale data breach in the hospitality industry that
Mar 11, 2026
The first Business+AI Forum on how AI is transforming business strategy, operations, and decision-making took place on March 11, 2026. Panelists * Katherine Dwyer, Managing Director, IBM. Katherine leads IBM’s strategic relationship with MetLife, supporting large-scale transformation through the development, deployment and optimization of innovative technology solutions. * Neil Patel
Mar 6, 2026
Balancing consumer protection with seller welfare is a central challenge in platform governance. This study examines returnless refunds—an innovation that reimburses buyers without requiring product returns—and analyzes a policy shift that delegated refund authority to highly rated sellers on a leading e-commerce platform. Using a difference-in-differences framework, we
Feb 6, 2026
Large language model (LLM)–based advisors increasingly interact directly with consumers, raising the question of whether they mitigate or exacerbate well-documented consumer choice biases. We study this question in the context of gym membership purchases, where consumers are known to systematically overestimate future usage. We address three research questions: (1)