Chelsea Donahue
Assistant Director of Rethinc. Labs
Chelsea oversees and manages all aspects of the day-to-day operations of Rethinc. Labs, helping to develop programming and curriculum to support Rethinc’s research initiatives in emerging technologies. She is excited about the opportunity to help foster relationships and partnerships with firms and industry professionals at the intersection of business and technology.
She brings perspective from both higher ed, where she’s worked in Admissions at both Fordham and UNC, and the corporate sector, where she worked in Financial Product Sales at Bloomberg.
Chelsea received her MBA from Fordham University and graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Kenan-Flagler Business School with a bachelor of science in business administration and a minor in Spanish.
Recent Publications
March 16, 2022
Although artificial intelligence (AI) has become a crucial component of digital transformation efforts tied to organizational strategy, many firms struggle to articulate the strategic value of emerging AI systems. In this article we argue that the power of AI as a strategic resource lies in its self-learning capabilities. Such learning capabilities are only realized in partnership with humans through mutual learning. By building on a learning-centered framework, we elaborate on how AI can contribute to organizational learning to create a competitive advantage. We formulate the concept of artificial capital and the ways artificial and human capital can together drive routinization and strategic learning processes that connect internal and external environments of the organization. Finally, we use this conception to formulate practical recommendations for managing and developing AI to meet strategic business goals.
