AI and Organizations Lab

What We Do

In their own words, hear from the leaders of the AI and Organizations Lab. Learn about the research agenda, its importance to scholarship and practice, and the role industry collaborators can play to bring it to life.

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Engage With Our Research

We envision a future where organizations are intentionally designed to harness AI in ways that elevate collective human potential. By bridging scholarly research with the lived realities of the workplace, we aim to guide the transformation of jobs, teams, and organizational structures toward a more productive and human-centered future.

Learn With Our Courses

We translate cutting-edge research on AI and organizations into educational experiences that help students and leaders develop the toolkits for leading human-centered organizational transformation.

Produce Research With Us

We are on a mission to redefine how human potential and artificial intelligence co-evolve to build more resilient, purposeful, and high-aspiration organizations.

We are looking for researchers at all levels—from undergraduates to PhDs and post-docs—across all disciplines and universities. If you are driven by the challenge of transforming how AI and organizations work, we want your perspective.

Leadership

Melissa Valentine

Director, Associate Professor of Management Science and Engineering, Stanford

Beth Bechky

Co-Director, Professor, Graduate School of Management, UC Davis

Affiliate Faculty

Amir Goldberg

Amman Mineral Professor of Organizational Behavior, Graduate School of Business, Professor of Sociology (by courtesy), School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University

Woody Powell

Jacks Family Professor and Professor, by courtesy, of Communication, of Sociology and of Organizational Behavior at the Graduate School of Business

Sara Singer

Professor of Health Policy, of Medicine, and, (by courtesy, of Organizational Behavior at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University

Diyi Yang

Amman Mineral Professor of Organizational Behavior, Graduate School of Business, Professor of Sociology (by courtesy), School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University

James Zou

Associate Professor of Biomedical Data Science and, by courtesy, of Computer Science and of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University

Students

Adrienne Baer

PhD Student

Rhea Bergman

PhD Student

Ruishi Chen

PhD Student

Chris Dylewski

PhD Student

Cuehyon Kim

PhD Student

Liem M. Nguyen

PhD Student

Daniel Politzer

PhD Student

Amanda Pratt

PhD Student

Pragnya Ramjee

PhD Student

Josh Rosenthal

PhD Student

Yankai Wang

PhD Student

"The first modern organizations took inspiration from the most advanced technology at the time: mechanical gears. What might modern organizations look likeif they were inspired by the capacity of today's technologies, not a century ago?"