School News | Professor J.P. Eggers and Director for Venture Acceleration Sarah Ryan co-authored research feature on the collaboration between Microsoft and the Andre Koo Technology & Entrepreneurship MBA: “What Happened When Researchers Co-Founded a Startup with AI.”

Professor J.P. Eggers and Director for Venture Acceleration Sarah Ryan co-authored research feature on the collaboration between Microsoft and the Andre Koo Technology & Entrepreneurship MBA: “What Happened When Researchers Co-Founded a Startup with AI.”

— 9/8/2025

Excerpt from Harvard Business Review — “What if your startup’s first hire wasn’t a person—but an AI agent? This provocative question was at the heart of a semester-long collaboration between Microsoft and NYU Stern’s Tech MBA program. Thirty students, divided into six startup-style teams, were given access to Microsoft 365 Copilot with the latest agent capabilities and asked to reimagine how work gets done when AI is embedded from day one.”

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Professor J.P. Eggers and Director for Venture Acceleration Sarah Ryan co-authored research feature on the collaboration between Microsoft and the Andre Koo Technology & Entrepreneurship MBA: “What Happened When Researchers Co-Founded a Startup with AI.”