Wharton's Mollick: AI Expands Executive Span of Control in Big Firms

Wharton scholar Ethan Mollick argues that AI is expanding executives' span of control by letting them monitor entire companies directly, with frontier models ready for such tasks once connected to corporate data. He adds that thinking of AI as mere dashboards is too limited, as models can actively research and surface what matters.

2026-10-25 ~ 2026-10-25 · 4 related posts

• Ethan Mollick: AI is expanding senior management's span of control at large firms — emollick · 2026-10-25
• Mollick: frontier models handle executive monitoring out of the box with company data — emollick · 2026-10-25
• Ethan Mollick: AI 'dashboards' undersell it — models now research, prioritize and act — emollick · 2026-10-25

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