At The Money: Preparing for a Career During in Age of Artificial Intelligence

Barry Ritholtz interviews Nitin Nohria, former dean of Harvard Business School and executive chairman of Thrive Capital, about how students should prepare for the job market in an age of artificial intelligence. Nohria describes asking students to share what an AI tool told them about a case, then to say what they agreed with, disagreed with and what further questions they asked. The conversation also covers whether the choice of major still matters, the value of generalists versus deep expertise, and whether the first job should be treated as an experiment or a commitment.

1. Nohria says students should use AI to inform themselves and then interrogate it, learning to think alongside the tool.
2. He argues each person can develop a distinctive way of using AI, which becomes their edge.
3. He says a major still matters and that both deep expertise and generalist paths can be valuable.
4. He distinguishes students who know their mission early and should commit from those who need to experiment before locking in.