Generative AI and AI agents are changing how work happens.
BCG and Waseda experts discuss the implications.
The focus is on what people should learn next.
What happened
Boston Consulting Group senior partner Yoichiro Hirai and Waseda Business School professor Hiroaki Sugita discuss how generative AI and AI agents will change work, offering views from the field and from management studies.
Why it matters
As AI takes on analysis and proposal tasks, the discussion asks what people should learn and which skills to sharpen, with MBA insights informing the future of learning.
What to watch
The conversation explores how professionals can adapt their learning approaches as AI increasingly handles strategic thinking work.
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As AI agents become more capable, the boundary between human strategic work and machine assistance blurs. The discussion between BCG and Waseda experts addresses a practical question: what remains worth learning. Their exchange grounds the abstract debate in real consulting experience and management theory, without prescribing a single answer. MBA perspectives are used as a lens, not a conclusion.
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