22 alternative that is well presented and looks totally plausible and then being able to critically evaluate if the su ggested alternative is fundamentally flawed or absolutely brill iant i s t hus a mong the mo st impo rtant skills in a m anagement career. With Chat GPT playing the role of that smart consulta nt (who always has an elegan t answer, but oftentimes is wrong) we thus have a pe rfect training ground for developing that skill. Just think back to Answer 3 (the Cranberry process). It was well presented and t he numb ers looked coherent and plau sible – but, it was wrong nevertheless. By letting stu dents use Chat GPT during case discussions, I can thus emulat e the de cision making process a senior ex ecutive would face in the work pl ace. Im plication 5: Let students use Chat GPT , but simultaneously raise the bar for as signme nts The scenario that most K12 teachers are concerned about is that a student who in the past would go to the library a nd s pen d four hours on a homework assignment contrasting the views of Albert Camus and J ean-P aul S artre on exi stentialism is now “getting a wa y” w ith a five minute interaction with C hat GPT . As a result of this “ sho rtcut” th e student learns less than before. If I wo uld be a K12 teacher, I would be concerned about my stud ents taking such shortcuts as well. B ut, I am not a K12 teacher. I have the privilege of teaching highly motivat ed s tudents, most of whom are making a substantial personal and financial sacr ifice to b e i n my cla ssroom. With or without Chat GPT , I can get a certain amount of time from them each week (say f our ho urs). It i s now up to me to come up with assignments that are challenging enough so tha t t hey warrant that time investment. To t he extent that we believe that C hat G PT gi ves the students a head start on their homework, it is my j ob to ho ld them acco untable to a higher standard. In many ways, this is similar to how we have been using group assignments for many years. Just as we would expect a bett er del iverable for an assignment that was given to a group of five students, we should expect mo re f rom a stu dent that we encourage to colla bo rate with a technology such as Cha t GPT . Im plication 6 : A sk students to imagine the new ra ther th an tw eaking th e old In his book “Zero to One”, Peter Thiel challenged entrepreneurs to move beyond the existing paths of innovation. Thiel distinguishes between “going from 0 to 1”, which corresponds to creating something fundamentally new (Bill Gates coming up with a PC operating system) and im proving upo n what exists by going from “1 to n” (moving from Windo ws 10 to Windows 11).