- Harvard’s HBS Foundry now runs a $699, eight‑week online startup bootcamp where founders rehearse pitches, sales calls and board meetings with AI “clones” of faculty — and can compete for a $100,000 investor pitch.
- Seven HBS professors voluntarily recorded AI avatars for the program (not an HBS credit course); about 760 founders have taken part so far.
- The experiment sparks small‑talk fodder: it scales faculty time and prep work, but can’t fully replace human judgment or the elite‑education experience, raising ethical and value questions.
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