Dr. Sahar Hashmi Conducts AI Workshop on ‘How AI Transforms Businesses’ at Harvard Business School
Dr. Sahar Hashmi was invited to conduct a workshop on AI in Business at Harvard Business School. She designed and created this workshop based on her experience with her consulting firm so far. The Workshop was on generative AI applications, strategies, and implementation challenges.

Key discussion points:
✓ The IBM Watson and MD Anderson partnership complications – exploring reasons.
✓ The entry of chatbots into the market – examples include Microsoft’s Tay and Microsoft’s backed OpenAI’s ChatGPT, discussing their reasons for failures and successes.
✓ Open-source vs. proprietary large language models (LLMs) – comparisons and selection criteria.
✓ The emergence of Hybrid LLM models with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and vector databases.
✓ Use cases of generative AI in business.
✓ Strategies for transforming businesses using generative AI.
✓ Challenges in implementing generative AI in businesses.
✓ Factors to consider when selecting a generative AI model for your business-from Dr. Sahar Hashmi’s personal consulting experience.

✓ As an art aficionado, she concluded the session with an AI-generated Coca Cola ad using the arts of famous artists.
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