Drawing on its deep expertise at the intersection of technology, analytics, and business, the Tepper School will apply Collaborative AI — an integrated simulation of complex human and system behavior — to transform business education and research. 

TRANSFORMING BUSINESS EDUCATION

• Using Collaborative AI, we will harness collaborative AI to reshape business education away from the traditional case study model and toward true-to-life simulation and personalized learning.
   
• By integrating collaborative AI across the curriculum — with holistic projects spanning areas from accounting and finance to marketing and organizational behavior — our faculty will provide students with a strong foundation on which to build the tools of tomorrow and gain a competitive advantage.
   
• We will help emerging and experienced leaders to understand how to recast the role of the manager in an AI age, by harnessing AI to amplify, not replace, human connections and ideas. 

TRANSFORMING RESEARCH

• Our researchers will dive into the most difficult, complex problems facing businesses today by leveraging Collaborative AI to generate and test new solutions and drive methodological advances across all business disciplines.
   
• We will collaborate with world-class experts from across Carnegie Mellon University working alongside industry partners to grapple with the economic, societal, and ethical implications of generative AI.
   
• We will cultivate new hubs of innovation, such as the Center for Intelligent Business to enable better decision-making, optimization, and innovation across all areas of business through applications of collaborative AI.

At the Tepper School, we lead with data. With the launch of Building the Intelligent Future, it is crucial to monitor and track the progress in implementing our initiatives using key metrics. These metrics will be defined dynamically as this strategic plan is a living document. They will allow us to monitor our strategic advancement, hold us accountable to our goals, and maintain a culture of continuous improvement within the school.

We commit to communicating our progress to our stakeholders on an annual basis.

THIS IS THE MOMENT.

Accelerated technological advancement, greater emphasis on ethics and social responsibility, and an intensified demand for innovation characterize a few dynamic elements of our current business landscape.

Now is the time to plan for the future to respond to these pivotal shifts. The Tepper School must adapt and use our strategic plan to lead the charge for an evolved business education.

THIS IS THE PLACE.

The Tepper School brings world-class faculty, researchers, students, and staff together in a physical and virtual hub of innovation and entrepreneurship. We are part of an academic ecosystem at Carnegie Mellon University that is at the forefront of technological developments, in particular, artificial intelligence.

With its legacy as the birthplace of management science that uses analytics to power decision making, the Tepper School is well-versed in applying data and analytics to improve human judgment — a skill more critical than ever with technological innovations rapidly advancing all aspects of modern life.

THIS IS OUR STRATEGY.

Our strategic plan identifies three broad themes with associated signature initiatives to build on in the coming years. Within our strategic framework, we welcome creative thinking about additional signature initiatives that achieve our vision and align with our themes.

• AI for Business: Pioneering the exploration of the next generation of business applications of AI through research and education to drive ethical, value-creating business decision-making.
   
• Economic Prosperity: Advancing economic growth for our local, national, and global communities through research, teaching, and partnerships.
   
• Entrepreneurial Pursuit: Promoting entrepreneurship and innovation through curriculum, teaching, research, and faculty and staff development.

We launched our strategic planning process in July 2023. Led by Dean Isabelle Bajeux-Besnainou, our diverse community collaborated to develop our School’s strategy for the next six years. Over 300 individuals from our faculty, staff, and student communities, and the Alumni Board and Business Board of Advisors contributed to the plan’s creation through traditional, tested strategic planning methods including retreats, focus groups, interviews, and a survey.

Additionally, we used innovative practices, including a Pitch Day, where we invited the community to “pitch” big ideas, and the Unanimous AI process, which utilized artificial intelligence to solicit and synthesize ideas from faculty, staff, students, and alumni. The Carnegie Mellon University President and Provost, as well as select members of the University Board of Trustees, also provided their insights and feedback throughout the process. A Strategic Planning Task Force, along with the School’s Executive Committee, worked to incorporate the ideas and input from our various communities into our strategic plan.

Members of these groups also formed and facilitated a series of thematic workshops where our faculty, staff, and students honed the strategic themes and initiatives identified through previous community engagement. Together, these efforts have enabled us to define the strategic priorities that will set us on an exciting path forward.

OUR MISSION.

To provide intellectual leadership that advances the science and practice of management, and to develop ethical leaders to be value creators and pioneers of change for business and society.

OUR VISION.

We are leading the Intelligent Future of Business — an inclusive, innovative, and interdisciplinary future — leveraging analytics, emerging technology, AI, and business fundamentals for data-informed and human-driven decisions.

OUR COMMITMENTS.

The Tepper School is dedicated to advancing its core values and three commitments.

• Inclusive Excellence: We will cultivate a diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture and community of learners, educators, and administrators centered around excellence. This environment will provide a genuine sense of belonging to all, regardless of their backgrounds or identities. Furthermore, academic excellence will flourish as diverse perspectives fuel innovation, collaboration, and outstanding results across all areas at the Tepper School.
   
• Data Informed/Human Driven: We will use human intelligence — analytical, creative, emotional — to unleash data’s insights and reach smarter decisions to confront the uncertainty of a dynamic business environment. If led and managed by the right people, analytics and data-informed decision making have the power to enrich business and society while bettering the lives of all.
   
• Collaboration: We will grow and transform our University’s established network of partnerships and pursue new meaningful relationships in education, research, and service across our Carnegie Mellon University campuses and beyond.