Harvard Business School Opens $699 AI Avatar Boot Camp to Reach Founders Beyond 900 MBA Seats
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Updated · 매일경제 · Aug 23
Harvard Business School Opens $699 AI Avatar Boot Camp to Reach Founders Beyond 900 MBA Seats
3 articles · Updated · 매일경제 · Aug 23
Summary
$699 buys access to HBS Foundry, an eight-week startup boot camp that lets aspiring founders train with AI avatars modeled on Harvard Business School professors.
About 100 university startup centers across all 50 states will offer the program, where students can rehearse investor pitches, sales calls and board meetings with interactive AI agents and video avatars.
HBS built the avatars to mimic its tough classroom style, training them to challenge business ideas rather than flatter users; professor Tom Eisenman said they rarely approve an idea on the first try.
The push is meant to scale entrepreneurship teaching beyond HBS's roughly 900-student annual MBA capacity, addressing demand that in-person faculty meetings alone cannot meet.