How Can CEOs Motivate Employees to Participate in AI Innovation?
If you want employees to help build and improve AI tools, give them a reason to have a stake in their success.
Harvard Business School Associate Professor Zoe Cullen explains that AI innovation can stall when employees are asked to share their expertise without clear incentives—especially when they fear the resulting technology could reduce headcount. Leaders can rethink that dynamic by considering how career incentives, ownership, and intellectual property might allow employees to benefit from the technology they help create.
In this episode of Harvard Business School’s Cold Call podcast, Cullen and host Brian Kenny explore who captures the value when human expertise becomes data—and what that means for companies adopting AI.
Watch the full episode wherever you get your podcasts, or here: https://s.hbr.org/4hiV5bx
Harvard Business School Associate Professor Zoe Cullen explains that AI innovation can stall when employees are asked to share their expertise without clear incentives—especially when they fear the resulting technology could reduce headcount. Leaders can rethink that dynamic by considering how career incentives, ownership, and intellectual property might allow employees to benefit from the technology they help create.
In this episode of Harvard Business School’s Cold Call podcast, Cullen and host Brian Kenny explore who captures the value when human expertise becomes data—and what that means for companies adopting AI.
Watch the full episode wherever you get your podcasts, or here: https://s.hbr.org/4hiV5bx
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