Harvard Business School Foundry gives entrepreneurs 24/7 access to AI versions of faculty members to refine business ideas, practice investor pitches, and build companies—all for $699.
Harvard Business School’s $699 boot camp for aspiring entrepreneurs—led by AI clones of university faculty—is getting high marks since its rollout in April.
“My students love it,” said Flybridge Capital co-founder Jeff Bussgang, a senior lecturer at Harvard whose digital doppelganger is part of the innovative program.
The eight-week online course, dubbed HBS Foundry, uses
The eight-week online course, dubbed HBS Foundry, uses AI-generated versions of faculty members to help participants refine business ideas, rehearse investor pitches, and prepare for customer interactions.
“Great founders are everywhere,” the Foundry website says. “Access to the right tools, networks, and guidance is not. HBS Foundry closes that gap to bring more high-potential founders and ideas to market.”
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The online course, which has been tested by more than 100 universities in all 50 states, represents the business school’s latest effort to use artificial intelligence to scale entrepreneurial education beyond its traditional campus audience.
You can really hash out things before you
“You can really hash out things before you actually enter a situation like that,” said Dragana Savic, who signed up for Foundry after raising more than $1 million in venture funding for her company, INIA Biosciences, which manufactures a device for treating autoimmune diseases. “It’s a good way to practice.”
Hashing out strategy with AI avatars helped Boston University Ph.D. candidate Pranav Sultania sharpen his pitch for an electromagnetic jet propulsion and pumping system for underwater applications.
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