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## Segment 6 — agentic

## Article 87 — a087

# Bharat N. Anand

**Profile.** Co-author of *The Gen AI Playbook for Organizations*. **Richard R. West Dean** and a professor of business administration at [[entity-org-nyu-stern|New York University's Stern School of Business]]. A strategy scholar whose work centers on how firms capture value from technology.

**Role in the source.** One of the two authoritative voices of the article (with [[entity-andy-wu|Andy Wu]]); every framework, claim, and quote in this vault is jointly attributed to the pair. The article won the 2025 HBR Prize for best article.

**Attributed contributions in this vault (jointly with Andy Wu):**
- The core [[framework-gen-ai-deployment|Gen AI deployment framework]] and its four zones
- The [[concept-paradox-of-access|Paradox of Access]] argument
- Claims: [[claim-waiting-is-dangerous]], [[claim-speed-does-not-win]], [[claim-disintermediation-risk]], [[claim-it-bottlenecks-cede-ground]], [[claim-data-centralization-moat]]
- Signature quotes: [[quote-benchmark-not-perfection]], [[quote-lasting-advantage-different-application]], [[quote-uncollected-data-seed]], [[quote-replacement-vs-complementarity]]