Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Management Initiative
The Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Management Initiative is a multidisciplinary project that will look at how artificial intelligence is impacting management, and will prepare executives to put Al to use in their companies in an ethical and socially responsible way.
Artificial intelligence, like electricity a century ago, is a general purpose technology that will touch every sphere of economic activity. That places new demands on managers to adapt to the changing competitive landscape, to transform their organizations, and to ensure that employees – and themselves — have the skills required. IESE’s new Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Management Initiative will meet those growing needs for research and education.
The initiative conducts academic research on AI in business, encompassing both qualitative studies of managerial practice and quantitative studies using large datasets.
Objectives.
The AI Initiative works intensely to put IESE’s humanistic vision of business based on the well-being of people – from customers and suppliers to employees and fellow managers – at the heart of the transformation of our economies.
We envision a world where the benefits of AI are widely shared, the transformation of jobs and businesses humanely managed, and ethical issues addressed efficiently and fairly.
Research
Generating leading research on AI and business, including labor markets, strategy, organizational design, leadership and human-machine interaction
Education
Developing best-in-class teaching faculty, materials, and programs to equip current and future managers to have a positive impact on the AI transformation
Engagement
Engaging policy makers and the broader public in discussions about promoting responsible, human-centric innovation to improve general welfare
Research activities.
Human-machine interaction
Human-centric AI design and the impact of AI on people
Leadership
Leading in AI-driven organizations and AI in leadership
Work and organizations
New structures and processes in AI-driven organizations and the challenges of transformation
Strategy
Changes to strategy and business models in business driven by AI
Labor markets
Changing careers and skill requirements as AI spreads through the economy
Ethics
Fair and balanced algorithms and the ethical treatment of people
- Natalie Burford (through the Marie Curie Fellowship grant). ¨PLATEX: Platform Experiments: How Standardized Tools and Customized Artificial Intelligence Shape Competition and Fairness Within Platform Markets¨
- Sebastian Hafenbädl, Jella Pfeiffer and Pascal Hessler, ¨Supporting prosocial decisions with conversational agents: the role of anthropomorphization¨.
- José Azar, Marina Chugunova, Klaus Keller, Sampsa Samila: “Monopsony & Automation”
- Martin Spann, Marco Bertini, Oded Koenigsberg, Robert Zeithammer, Diego Aparicio, Yuxin Chen, Fabrizio Fantini, Ginger Zhe Jin, Vicki Morwitz, Peter Popkowski Leszczyc, Maria Ana Vitorino, Gizem Yalcin Williams & Hyesung Yoo: "Algorithmic Pricing: Implications for Consumers, Managers, and Regulators” https://www.nber.org/papers/w32540
- Liudmila Alekseeva, José Azar, Mireia Giné, Sampsa Samila, and Bledi Tasha: "Managerial Skills in the Age of AI”.
- Johannes Müller-Trede: "¨silly¨ mistakes and willingness to rely on decision support systems”.
- Enric Junqué de Fortuny: "Simulating Market Equilibrium with Large Language Models”
- Enric Junqué de Fortuny: "Tuning into LLMs: Sampling Homo Silicus and Beyond”
- Enrique Ide & Eduard Talamàs, “The Turing Valley: How AI Capabilities Shape Labor Income”, August 2024
- Enrique Ide & Eduard Talamàs, “Artificial Intelligence in the Knowledge Economy”, May 2024. https://econ.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2024/08/Ide-Talamas.pdf
- Fioravante, R., Vaccaro, A. (eds.) Humanism and Artificial Intelligence, Springer, forthcoming 2025
- Fioravante, R., Vaccaro, A. Responsible Organization, Humanism and AI, Palgrave, expected submission September 2025
- Fioravante, R. Vaccaro, A. Personalism in generative AI deployment: deciding ethically when human creative expression is at stake, Humanistic Management Journal, Invited to Revise and Resubmit
AI research and resources from IESE.
An open access presentation of IESE’s new initiative, featuring Dean Franz Heukamp and professors Sampsa Samila, Mireia Giné and Sebastien Brion.
A paper published by professor Diego Aparicio about how businesses use AI to automate pricing decisions, but then face downsides that policymakers and managers must take into account.
A report documenting the dramatic increase in demand for AI skills from 2010 to 2019, and the higher wages for those with those skills, particularly at a management level.
A report that examines the impact of AI adoption on firm growth, productivity and investment, and explores whether managers or IT specialists drive that growth.
An article by professor Sampsa Samila in La Vanguardia that looks at AI’s role in the economic recovery following COVID-19.
An open access session by professor Sampsa Samila.
A book edited by professor Jordi Canals and Dean Franz Heukamp.
Executive education programs in AI.
Through specific programs, IESE helps business leaders and professionals develop their knowledge and skills related to artificial intelligence, a sector that is changing the world through its myriad applications in companies and the broader economy.
