At UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, a former AI-focused MBA student is stepping into a teaching role designed to bridge the gap between AI engineering and business management. Pepe Alonso, vice president of education for the AI Club at Haas and an intern at Google, is slated to teach in Haas’s Fundamentals of AI course and lead an elective, while co-instructing an EECS course section. The approach reflects growing demand that business schools help students understand AI capabilities while also equipping them to manage product and organizational decisions. Alonso’s path—from recognizing his startup role being eroded by the same AI technology being celebrated, to pursuing an AI master’s program alongside an MBA—frames the curriculum shift as practical, not theoretical. He also described that Haas application postings began requiring machine learning experience rather than broad AI fluency. The announcement signals how AI is changing academic workforce preparation, pushing business schools to revise course content and assessment expectations so graduates can work with AI systems responsibly and effectively.