Ethan Mollick
Ethan Mollick is a Wharton associate professor of management and co-director of its Generative AI Labs. His research studies AI, innovation, entrepreneurship, and education. He also writes One Useful Thing and books for readers who want to understand how AI affects work and learning. With Lilach Mollick, he proposed classroom approaches for language models, with oversight and critical assessment included. Their later team paper described PitchQuest, an AI-based simulation for practicing a venture-capital pitch, and called for rigorous testing. Mollick’s Co-Intelligence was published in April 2024. His newsletter announces Co-Existence for 20 October, which remains forthcoming as of 10 October 2026. His public experiments and advice sit alongside collaborative research.
- Now at
- University of Pennsylvania and The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
- Works
- 88
- Citations
- 9,539
- h-index
- 29
Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.
Timeline
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Earlier career
Education and entrepreneurship
Mollick studies at Harvard and MIT and co-founds a startup before academia.
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Public writing
One Useful Thing
His newsletter connects research with practical questions about AI use.
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2023
Classroom roles for AI
Ethan and Lilach Mollick propose teaching approaches with attention to oversight and risk.
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2024
Book and simulation research
Co-Intelligence is published; a team paper describes the PitchQuest teaching prototype.
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October 2026
Research and forthcoming writing
Mollick continues at Wharton; his newsletter announces the next book for later in October.
Sources and credits
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