Harvard Business School Launches $699 Foundry Bootcamp With HeyGen AI Clones of Its Professors

Harvard Business School unveiled HBS Foundry, an eight-week, $699 online entrepreneurship bootcamp whose defining feature is HeyGen-built AI avatars of real faculty — including Flybridge co-founder Jeff Bussgang — that give feedback on students' practice pitches and mock board meetings between live weekly sessions. Program director Katharina Rings said she initially prototyped a chatbot before student trials pushed her toward the avatar format. Bussgang conceded his digital twin feels 'creepy' but said students appreciate the on-demand coaching.