Babson · AI brief · May 2026
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Benchmarking with peer business schools

Since January 2024, fifteen peer institutions have publicly committed to one of the three frontier AI providers — most recently Columbia, in May 2026. Click on the schools below to see press releases.

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Fifteen verified peer-institution AI partnerships, January 2024 through May 2026. In nearly every case, the business school is included by default.

Where the peer business schools stand

The columns below show institutional commitments to the three frontier AI providers.

OpenAIChatGPT

  • Harvard Business School
  • Wharton (UPenn)
  • Tuck (Dartmouth)
  • Oxford (Saïd)
  • UCLA (Anderson)
  • CSU system
  • Arizona State (W. P. Carey)
  • Duke (Fuqua)
  • Vanderbilt (Owen)

AnthropicClaude

  • Harvard Business School
  • Northeastern (D’Amore-McKim)
  • Tuck (Dartmouth)
  • LSE (Management)
  • Champlain
  • Columbia (incl. CBS)
  • Harvard FAS

GoogleGemini

  • Harvard Business School (via Sandbox)
  • Vanderbilt (Owen)
  • Rice (Jones)
  • Houston (Bauer)

Each entry is a publicly-disclosed institutional commitment to that provider. HBS isn’t on the timeline above because its multi-tool model isn’t a single-provider commitment.

Harvard Business School is the one school here with direct commitments to both Anthropic and OpenAI, plus multi-model access through .

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