Harvard’s $699 startup bootcamp offers AI avatars of its instructors
THE SO WHAT
Harvard putting instructor avatars in a $699 HBS Foundry program normalizes AI-mediated mentorship as a product, not a gimmick. If you sell expertise — accelerators, coaching, training — assume your customers will soon expect 24/7 AI access to your “best people,” and design the boundary between avatar and actual human time now.
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