Business+AI Lab at Stevens is an effort by faculty members at the Stevens School of Business to make the latest knowledge of AI and data governance available to firms.
We offer training and workshops, host events, and publish resources that help firms to upskill their senior executives, managers, and employees to meet the challenges of AI-driven business.
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Email Aleksi Aaltonen, Lab Director
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Training and workshops
Business+AI Lab faculty experts provide training and workshops that help you to understand the opportunities of AI-driven business and to upskill your personnel for seizing them.
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Corporate Data Assets and AI Workshop Series
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- Senior managers and executives
The workshop series focuses on managing and developing corporate data assets for the AI-driven business environment. Aimed at senior managers and executives, the series enables your team understand and plan data governance, work, and innovation in your organization.
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Human-centered Design of AI Workshop/Course
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- Managers and employees
AI is a general-purpose technology that can be applied to a wide range of problems in business and organizations. However, to make a successful application of AI, managers and employees need to be able to analyze practical situations and develop AI-based solutions that are desirable to their intended users. This course trains your team to harness the power of design thinking for AI.
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Applied AI for Finance Workshop
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- Employees
This workshop is a hands-on, no-code introduction to applying Generative AI in everyday finance workflows.
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Events
Oct. 8, 2026
AI Conference 2026 Sold out
Stevens AI Conference 2026: Leveraging AI for Business Value
October 8, 2026 · University Center Complex (UCC) Gallery · Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ
The day features executive fireside chats with leaders from Regeneron, Pfizer, FICO, Alliance Health, and Stevens Institute of Technology.
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Sept. 25, 2026
Hackathon 2026 Past event
Business + AI Hackathon 2026: Leveraging AI for Innovation in Business
Friday, Sept. 25, 2026 · 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. · Tech Flex, University Center Complex · Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ
The Stevens School of Business presents a one-day, student-run hackathon on leveraging AI for innovation in business.
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Forums, faculty lectures and research talks
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Posted Sept. 23, 2026
Forum
Business+AI Forum, September 2026
Our featured speakers include Gene (Gennadiy) Barskiy, Connie Mui-Reilly and Vikram Nair.
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Posted May 14, 2026
Faculty lecture
Delivering Value with AI: Business Model Transformation
This lecture explores how AI is rewriting the rules of competition.
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Posted May 7, 2026
Faculty lecture
Data: The Next Frontier
Aleksi Aaltonen explores what data are (or is), why their importance is going to grow, and what are the emerging trends and issues that organizations will need to tackle in the AI-driven economy.
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Posted April 30, 2026
Faculty lecture
AI Entrepreneurship: Bootstrapping Autonomous Robotaxi Services
Jordan Suchow looks at a key strategic decision that companies in the autonomous navigation space have all wrestled with: how to bootstrap a product when the data needed to train the system requires deploying it.
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Posted April 23, 2026
Faculty lecture
AI in Finance: Rewiring Robo-Advising for the Autonomous Portfolio
Zachary Feinstein explores the transition toward truly autonomous wealth management by bridging artificial intelligence with decentralized market structures.
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Posted April 16, 2026
Faculty lecture
Responsible AI: Foundations of Ethics and Algorithmic Fairness
Violet Chen introduces the AI ethics landscape and examines how principles of fairness, transparency, privacy, and accountability apply in real-world business decisions.
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Posted April 9, 2026
Faculty lecture
Managing AI Technologies: AI-in-the-Loop, AI-on-the-Loop, Human-out-of-the-Loop?
Michael zur Muehlen introduces a framework for understanding three AI deployment postures: AI-in-the-loop, AI-on-the-loop, and human-out-of-the-loop, raising hard questions about the point at which augmentation becomes automation.
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Posted March 31, 2026
Research talk
Miaoze Han: "Generative AI and Firm-Candidate Dynamics in the Labor Market"
The rapid proliferation of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is significantly reshaping the labor market.
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Posted March 13, 2026
Research talk
Dominik Molitor: "Customer Responses and Economic Consequences of Data Breach Announcements
Cybersecurity incidents and data breaches are increasingly common and pose significant financial risks for firms.
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Held March 11, 2026
Forum
Business+AI Forum, March 2026
The first Business+AI Forum on how AI is transforming business strategy, operations, and decision-making took place on March 11, 2026.
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Posted March 6, 2026
Research talk
Jinan Lin: "Delegating Returnless Refund Authority to Sellers: Evidence from an E-Commerce Platform"
Balancing consumer protection with seller welfare is a central challenge in platform governance.
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Posted Feb. 6, 2026
Research talk
Sagit Bar-Gill: "LLMs and Consumer Bias: 'Paying Not to Go to the Gym' with an LLM Advisor?"
Large language model (LLM)–based advisors increasingly interact directly with consumers, raising the question of whether they mitigate or exacerbate well-documented consumer choice biases.
Faculty members
Business+AI Lab faculty experts provide teaching, advising, and consulting in which they combine the latest research with practical relevance.
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Aleksi Aaltonen
Lab Director
Associate Professor of Information Systems, Entrepreneur, and Editor-in-Chief
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Aron Lindberg
IS&A Area Chair
Associate Professor of Information Systems, Chair of the Information Systems & Analytics
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Michael zur Muehlen
Associate Dean and Associate Professor of Information Systems
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Alkiviadis Vazacopoulos
Teaching Professor, former Vice President at FICO
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Katia Meggiorin
Assistant Professor of Information Systems
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Resources
Online launch, April 1, 2026
Research Handbook on Digital Data Online Launch Event
Research Handbook on Digital Data: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Edward Elgar Publishing). The book is co-edited by Aleksi Aaltonen with Marta Stelmaszak and Kalle Lyytinen.