Creating an AI-First University, w/ Kogod Dean David Marchick

About this episode

The episode explores the transformation of the Kogod School of Business into an AI-first institution and the implications of this shift.

What happens when a business school decides AI isn’t a bolt-on elective, but the operating system for how students learn marketing, finance, entrepreneurship, and leadership? In this episode of AI-Curious, we’re back with David Marchick, Dean of the Kogod School of Business, to see what changed after his earlier promise to become the country’s first AI-first business school. We dig into what “AI-first” actually means in practice, what worked (and what failed), and how a culture of experimenta...

People in this episode

Host: Jeff Wilser

Guest: David Marchick

Topics covered

• AI in education
• business school innovation
• marketing
• finance
• entrepreneurship
• leadership

Keywords

• AI-first
• business education
• David Marchick
• Kogod School
• marketing
• finance
• entrepreneurship
• leadership

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Kogod School of Business

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