Jen Stave

Jen Stave is a Partner at Keystone, Practice Leader for the AI Navigator, and the Inaugural Director of the Harvard Business School AI Institute.   Dr. Stave’s work sits at the intersection of data, AI, change management, workforce transformation, and organizational effectiveness and her perspectives on the future of digital labor are featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Economist. She has served on the steering committee for the United Nations’ AI for Good program and is a frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review.

An innovator with deep roots in industry, Dr. Stave previously served as a Senior Vice President in the financial services sector, where she led the industrialization of AI strategy and data science competencies across multiple global lines of business. She is a prolific builder and technologist, holding multiple U.S. patents for machine learning applications in risk management and customer communication analytics.

At Harvard, Dr. Stave has been instrumental in translating academic research into publicly consumable and impactful advice and content for executives.  She is a Board Advisor to The AI Lab and earned her Ph.D. in Quantitative Social Sciences from American University, where she was a Boren Fellow. Her academic research utilizes advanced quantitative methodologies and complex systems modeling to solve challenges in organizational performance and institutional resilience.

Recent articles in the Harvard Business Review:
The last mile problem slowing AI transformation
A guide to building change resilience in the age of AI
Agentic AI is already changing the workforce