I left consulting to begin teaching at Dartmouth right before the release of ChatGPT. Disruption is always messy—and there's always a twist

Scott D. Anthony is a clinical professor of strategy at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth (Credit: courtesy of Dartmouth)

In July 2022, I made a career pivot from consulting to teaching. Beyond being intrinsically interesting and rewarding, I thought teaching would provide a respite after almost two decades of daily hand-to-hand combat with problems, clients, and, occasionally, colleagues. Then, in November 2022, OpenAI introduced the first version of ChatGPT. It quickly became clear that artificial intelligence (AI) could radically reshape my new industry, my old one, and many others. 

Over the last three years, I have been actively experimenting with AI through a course I created called “AI and Consultative Decision Making.” In parallel, I wrote the book Epic Disruptions, which involved conducting deep historical research into case studies of world-changing innovations ranging from gunpowder to Pampers disposable diapers.