Generative AI, Entrepreneurship, and Human Capital
Jiayi Bao, Brian Wu, Stephen Michael Impink, Rembrand Michael Koning, Léonard Boussioux · Academy of Management Proceedings · 2025
The recent development of generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies has driven rapid adoption of generative AI tools by individuals and firms worldwide. Consequently, generative AI is projected to create significant economic impacts. While several studies have shown sizable worker productivity gains from leveraging generative AI tools across a wide range of use cases, less known is how these gains may be reaped by entrepreneurs who often face significant human capital challenges when launching nascent ventures: current work on AI and entrepreneurship has been largely theoretical and has not emphasized the uniqueness of generative AI (vs. traditional AI). This symposium aims to fill these gaps in the literature by focusing specifically on generative AI technologies and by providing empirical evidence on how the access to/use of generative AI tools can impact entrepreneurship through various human capital channels. Generative AI and Entrepreneurial Entry Author: Jiayi Bao; Author: Bowen Lou; University of Southern California Author: Hongshen Sun; Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Role of ChatBots in Entrepreneurial Growth Author: Stephen Michael Impink; HEC Paris Author: Manav Raj; Global Evidence on Gender Gaps and Generative AI Author: Nick Otis; Author: Solene Delecourt; Author: Katelyn Cranney; Stanford University Author: Rembrand Michael Koning; Harvard Business School A Field Experiment on Generative AI-Augmented Evaluations of Early-Stage Innovations Author: Leonard Boussioux; University of Washington Author: Ying Hao Chen; University of Washington Author: Camila Lin; University of Washington Author: Rebecca Spens; - Author: Pooja Wagh; - Author: Pei-Hsin Wang; University of Washington