Ethan Mollick
Associate Professor of Management, The Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania)
- AI in Work
- Education
- Author
Editorial bio
Ethan Mollick is one of the few academic voices on AI who writes for everyday operators rather than other academics. BA magna cum laude from Harvard (Science, Technology and Policy, 1997), MBA and PhD from MIT Sloan. He co-founded eMeta Corporation (early paywall technology) before moving into academia. Today he is Associate Professor of Management at the Wharton School, Ralph J. Roberts Distinguished Faculty Scholar, and Co-Director of Generative AI Labs at Wharton (with his wife, Lilach Mollick).
His research runs on AI's impact on work, entrepreneurship, education, crowdfunding and innovation – including large field experiments on AI in knowledge work. The output lands outside the academy: Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI (2024), a New York Times bestseller, and the One Useful Thing newsletter, organised around the operator's question: how does an individual knowledge worker actually use these tools well, this week? Named to TIME's Most Influential People in AI (2024) and MBA Professor of the Year by Poets & Quants.
Worth following if you want evidence-based, operator-ready advice on using AI in actual work.
Key facts
- based in
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- current
- Associate Professor of Management, Wharton (University of Pennsylvania) · Ralph J. Roberts Distinguished Faculty Scholar · Co-Director, Generative AI Labs at Wharton
- prior
- Co-Founder, eMeta Corporation (early paywall tech)
- education
- BA (magna cum laude), Harvard · MBA & PhD, MIT Sloan
- author
- Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI (2024, NYT bestseller) · earlier books on startups and video games
- recognition
- TIME Most Influential People in AI (2024) · MBA Professor of the Year (Poets & Quants)
- focus
- AI in work · AI in education · productivity · entrepreneurship · crowdfunding
Featured work
Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI (2024, NYT bestseller)
Practical guide to collaborating with LLMs.
One Useful Thing newsletter
The leading practitioner-focused AI newsletter from inside academia.
Generative AI Labs at Wharton (Co-Director)
With Lilach Mollick; research and teaching on applied AI.
Field experiments on AI in knowledge work
Including large-scale studies on consulting, students and entrepreneurs.