Posts by Rachel Zhang
Beyond ROI: Are We Using the Wrong Metric in Measuring AI Success?
A Response to MIT’s “95% AI Failure” Study MIT’s recent report claiming that 95% of generative AI projects fail to deliver measurable return on investment has sent shockwaves through the business community. The study, “The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025,” found that despite $30-40 billion in enterprise investment, 95% of organizations studied…
Read MoreThe Missing Bridge: Why AI Leadership Skills Matter More Than Ever
Vinod Khosla’s recent insights about the future of work and AI’s transformative impact resonate deeply with what we’re seeing across industries today. His advice to Gen Z—to “optimize your career for flexibility, not a single profession” and cultivate “the ability to learn”—captures a fundamental truth about our rapidly evolving workplace. However, there’s a critical gap…
Read MoreBerkeley Engineering Launches AI Program for Execs
Berkeley, CA, Aug 27, 2024 — On November 11-12, 2024, Berkeley Engineering’s Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology (SCET) will launch the AI for the C-Suite program, a premier executive education course designed to equip senior leaders with strategic insights into leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) within their organizations. This in-person AI strategy workshop, held on…
Read More“AI is the New Electricity”: Insights from Dr. Andrew Ng
AI luminary Andrew Ng recently shared his insights on the future of AI at a Berkeley event titled “How AI Will Change the World (for Good)” hosted by The House Fund with support from the Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology (SCET). Ng, one of the world’s most respected AI experts, emphasized the transformative potential…
Read MoreBerkeley and SCET Leaders Comment on Artificial Intelligence during Biden Bay Area Visit
President Joe Biden recently visited the Bay Area to surface a discussion on the evolving nature of AI and its impacts on technology, business, society and national policy. UC Berkeley community members were active in contributing their views to the public discussion. Shomit Ghose, an industry fellow at the UC Berkeley Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship…
Read MoreSCET Faculty Shuo Chen on Corporate Social Justice & the Future of Data Privacy
SCET faculty, commission member in California’s Mental Health Commission and industry fellow, Shuo Chen, was recently interviewed on The Robots Are Coming podcast where she talked about how future business models can be created without selling data, how Web3 can help with data privacy by allowing users to own their data, how data privacy can…
Read MoreIkhlaq Sidhu Gives His Thoughts On the Key to Successful Data Analytics Projects in Foreword for New Book
Recently, SCET Founding Director, Ikhlaq Sidhu, wrote the foreword for the new book Data Analytics Initiatives: Managing Analytics For Success authored by some of SCET’s long-time collaborators at the Prague University of Economics and Business, including Ota Novotný, Martin Potančok, Ondřej Bothe, Ondřej Kubera and David Bednář. The new book aims to support a wide…
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