School News | Professor J.P. Eggers and Director for Venture Acceleration Sarah Ryan co-authored article on setting teams up for success with AI based on insights from a NYC MBA student hackathon with Miro: “AI Makes Building Easy. Choosing What to Build Is Harder.”

Professor J.P. Eggers and Director for Venture Acceleration Sarah Ryan co-authored article on setting teams up for success with AI based on insights from a NYC MBA student hackathon with Miro: “AI Makes Building Easy. Choosing What to Build Is Harder.”

— August 12, 2026

Excerpt from HBR — “If the fundamental unit of work is shifting from ‘team’ to ‘individuals with AI,’ that means substantial changes for how we organize, how we hire, and what makes someone valuable at work. This is a question that goes far beyond discussions of productivity alone.

“We explored this question through a recent buildathon with NYU Stern students. We gave mixed-skill teams access to shared AI tools and asked them to solve complex, real-world problems in a single day. We wanted to investigate how they incorporated AI as they diverged on brainstorming and converged to make decisions, and which parts of the innovation cycle still benefited from collaboration.”