The Haub School of Business at St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia is running a pilot AI program called ChatSDG. Last week at the world's largest business education conference, professors, deans, and administrators from other business schools all “swarmed” to put it to the test. Bloomberg reported.
ChatSDG assesses how academic papers and journals align with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, which include everything from eradicating poverty to ensuring sustainable consumption. This adjustment is necessary for business schools to receive accreditation from AACSB, an international organization founded in 1916. According to Indeed, AACSB accreditation is one of the most rigorous and prestigious accreditation in higher education.
When a school submits research to ChatSDG, an AI chatbot acts as a reviewer and creates a custom report that answers the question, “What is the social impact of a journal article?” Each journal or article is given a score from 0 to 5, with 5 being the most consistent with the United Nations goals.
If the paper hasn't been published yet, the bot includes ways for researchers to improve it. For articles that have already been published, ChatSDG will suggest how the research can be used by people in the real world.
“It will cause a revolution [business school] “This will revolutionize the way faculty conduct research, and it will revolutionize the way schools provide metrics for the accreditation process,” Haub Dean Joseph DiAngelo told Bloomberg about ChatSDG. Ta.
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ChatSDG has the potential to reduce the time business schools must spend to obtain and maintain AACSB accreditation. AACSB accreditation has so far been awarded to one-third of business schools in the United States and only 6% worldwide. According to Bloomberg, certification can take six years and currently requires countless hours of human evaluation and reporting.
ChatSDG “meets AACSB's accreditation requirements to demonstrate evidence of social impact,” AACSB confirmed.
By using ChatSDG to evaluate articles, business schools can be on a faster track to accreditation and potentially reduce the time it would take a human reviewer to perform the same task.
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The Haub School worked with Cabells Scholarly Analytics to create an AI chatbot that has been piloted at 10 AACSB-accredited business schools over the past 18 months, according to Bloomberg.
AI is increasingly being framed as a business tool, with an October Harvard Business School study finding that consultants who use AI for specific tasks complete their work faster and produce higher-quality deliverables. It turns out.
The majority of U.S. business schools have already incorporated AI into their curriculum, including the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
