Expert on the effects of AI on work, entrepreneurship, and education.
Ranked in 2025.
Thinkers50 Digital Thinking Award, 2025.
“Most Influential People in AI” – TIME Magazine, 2024.
Ethan studies the effects of AI on work, entrepreneurship, and innovation. In Co-Intelligence, he urges us to engage with AI as co-worker, co-teacher, and coach, and challenges us to utilise AI’s enormous power without losing our identity. As the academic director and co-founder of Wharton Interactive, Ethan works to transform entrepreneurship education using games and simulations. He has built numerous teaching games, used by tens of thousands of students around the world.
Professor of management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Ethan is co-director of Wharton Generative AI Labs, which builds prototypes to develop innovative solutions for teaching and learning. Named as one of TIME Magazine’s Most Influential People in AI, Ethan has also been awarded MBA Professor of the Year by Poets & Quants. Prior to his time in academia, Ethan co-founded a startup company.
Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI (Penguin Random House, 2024); The Unicorn’s Shadow: Combating the Dangerous Myths That Hold Back Startups, Founders, and Investors (Wharton School Press, 2020); Communities of Innovation: How Video Game Makers Capture Millions of Dollars of Innovation from User Communities and You Can, Too! (with David Edery, FT Press, 2009); One Useful Thing (newsletter).
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