Rebecca Karp

Rebecca Karp is an Assistant Professor in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. Her research examines how companies formulate and execute strategy, with a focus on innovation, product development, digital innovations, organizational adoption, and how firms create and sustain competitive advantage.

AI Research Challenge Draws 200 Teams to Study Organizational Change

Stanford HAI and Google DeepMind’s AI for Organizations Grand Challenge is presented as an effort to study AI’s effects on organizations directly, rather than treating workplaces merely as places where AI tools are deployed. Melissa Valentine and other organizers argue that the central questions are how AI changes coordination, collaboration, alignment and collective performance, with DeepMind positioned not only as sponsor but as a research setting. The scale of the response — about 200 teams from more than 150 universities, narrowed to 13 finalists — is used to show broad academic demand for that inquiry.

Stanford HAIJun 8, 20265 min read