Prof.’s Podcast Looks at AI and Business

By athena vinch Heights Staff

After six years of collaborating to investigate the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into business strategy, Sam Ransbotham and Shervin Khodabandeh realized they wanted to share their insights beyond the scope of a research report—so they turned to podcasting.

“We were good at doing a lot of interviews, and they were interest- ing, but they didn’t always fit perfectly with what we were writing about for that year’s report, and it just crushed us to leave interesting things that people were saying,” Ransbotham said. and second straight contest to the No. 4 Terriers (19–6, 13–4) in a 3–1 decision. Despite the loss, the Eagles outshot BU 41–25. After dropping the first of the two-game series in BU’s Agganis Arena just 24 hours prior, BC fans filled Conte Forum in a sold-out student section.

Ransbotham is a professor at Boston College’s Carroll School of Management (CSOM) and Khodabandeh is a senior partner and managing director at Boston Consulting Group (BCG).

“Yeah, I mean, BC-BU is one of the best rivalries in all sports,” BC defenseman Marshall Warren said. “The fans are great. I think everyone loves to play in those games. The atmosphere is great, the competition’s always there.”

The game’s intensity—and bigger meaning—was apparent within the first five minutes of play. Officials called Cam Burke for boarding, resulting in the first of many scuffles between the two teams.

“It’s something we’re gonna have to address again,” BU head coach Jay Pandolfo said. “I thought we’ve been better with our discipline. It got the best of us, certainly tonight. It’s something we’ll talk about, so hopefully we can address that and move on.”

“It’s been a labor of love,” McGillycuddy said. “It’s probably one of the things I’ve done in my life I’m most proud of, because we started with absolutely nothing. We went from [nothing] to where we are today, and it’s something I am immensely proud of.”

Current CWBC vice chairs Patricia Bonan, BC ’79, and Elizabeth Vanderslice, BC ’86, will become CWBC co-chairs effective this spring.

“[The transition] was really natural,” Vanderslice said. “We’ve been working so intimately together, and Kathleen is so diligent, so it was just all the runtime that we had working together, it just seemed like a very natural, orderly succession.”

As CWBC’s incoming co-chair, Vanderslice said the organization will seek to place an emphasis on diversity when recruiting new members as part of its new strategic planning initiative.

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