Harvard Business School has added AI-generated video avatars of volunteer faculty members to H.B.S. Foundry, an eight-week entrepreneurship bootcamp priced at $699. Created by HeyGen, the avatars simulate practice pitches and board meetings, offering feedback based on instructors’ expertise and teaching styles while experienced founders, investors and Harvard faculty lead weekly live sessions. The hybrid model is designed to scale individualized mentorship without removing human oversight. Foundry helps participants develop companies from idea refinement through investor and customer pitches, combining Harvard content, peer interaction and AI resources, and has been tested with more than 100 universities across 50 states. Project director Katharina Rings said the AI component began as a chatbot concept before students requested a more guided, interactive experience. Participants have generally responded positively despite glitches such as frozen facial expressions. New York Times reporter Sarah Kessler found that an AI-generated copy of Flybridge Capital co-founder Jeff Bussgang, like the real Bussgang, was unimpressed by her "Uber for bananas" idea; Bussgang called the avatar a little "creepy" but said, "My students love it." The experiment highlights both the potential to expand personalized entrepreneurship education and questions about whether AI can match the nuance of experienced human mentors.