P&Q’s Must Reads: At Fuqua, 3 Professors Rewire The MBA For The AI Era

Hello everyone  — Welcome back to Poets&Quants’ Must Reads, a quick, digestible recap of the top business school news, sponsored by P&Q’s virtual admission events. 

I’m your host, Kristy Bleizeffer, and I’ll be highlighting the most important P&Q stories you might have missed. So, let’s get to it.  

No. 1: At Fuqua, 3 Professors Rewire The MBA For The AI Era 

Three professors at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business are remaking what an MBA classroom looks like, each from a different angle.  

One is pulling AI out of the technology stack and into the realm of society, ecology, and strategy. Another is pushing students to interrogate where AI helps and where it quietly fails them. The third is using AI to recover something business schools have been losing for years: the texture of real human interaction. 

Find out who the professors are, and read about their innovative approach to AI in MBA classrooms in this story, up now on our homepage.  

No. 2: ESCP Dean Léon Laulusa To Step Down This Summer 

The dean who helped usher in a new era of transformation at ESCP Business School in France, will step down this summer to pursue a new professional opportunity. 

The announcement comes less than a year after ESCP unveiled its Bold & United strategic plan, a sweeping reorganization that will transform the school into what it calls the European University of Management. Poets&Quants named ESCP our 2025 Business School of the Year partly for this vision. 

Read more about Leon’s career and departure in this story, which you can find in our news tab.  

No. 3: Kogod’s David Marchick To Become American University’s Interim President 

David Marchick built American University’s Kogod School of Business into what Bloomberg Businessweek once called the country’s first AI-first business school.  

We at Poets&Quants named it the best AI program in the nation and described the effort as “the most consequential AI transformation in business education.” 

Now Marchick is taking that same disposition to the president’s office. American University announced this week that Marchick will become interim president on July 1.  

Read more about the move and Marchick’s trailblaizing career from our homepage.  

No. 4: Our Weekly Round Up of News You Can Use 

No matter where you are in your B-school journey, we bring several helpful stories for you this week. 

First up: 2026-2027 MBA Admissions Events: A School-By-School List: This list collects the information and meetup events at all the major business schools, just in time to prepare for admission season. Find it on our homepage.  

Next: One-Third Of This MBA Admissions Firm’s Clients Got Into Harvard, Stanford Or Wharton In 2026: Get the name of the firm and their valuable admission advice by clicking on our admissions hub. 

Finally, The MBA Applicant’s Guide To AI In 2026: AI is now part of every MBA applicant’s world. Candidates are using it to brainstorm, to draft, and increasingly to submit work that lands directly on admissions committees’ desks. This guide will tell you what’s allowed, what’s risky, and what you should avoid. You’ll find in on our homepage. 

And, that’s it for this week’s Must Reads recap.  

I also want to alert school seekers to our events tab from our main menu. There, you’ll find all the upcoming admissions events for a range of degrees and programs including full-time and online MBAs, specialized masters, entrepreneurship and more. Registration is free. 

 Again, I’m Kristy Bleizeffer, and you can join me next week, right here, for a recap of what’s important in the world of business education. Thanks for listening. 

 

 

 

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