# 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.”

1 School News September 8, 2025 ![HBR](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/2023-01/HBR%20website.png?itok=XAeLg-d6)>

Excerpt from [Harvard Business Review](https://hbr.org/2025/09/what-happened-when-researchers-co-founded-a-startup-with-ai?ab=HP-hero-latest-1) — “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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