Data study ·
Three routes to creating shareholder value with AI
- Publication
- Harvard Business Review (United States) · subscribers only
- Authors
- Adam Job, Ulrich Pidun, Matthew Kropp, Tania Wang, Matthew Molloy
- Published on
- 26 October 2026 · read in the page structured data
Summary
A study of more than 600 US public companies shows that about three quarters of them have invested in AI and moved beyond the pilot stage, without obtaining a shareholder return premium over their industry competitors. The companies that manage to stand out follow three distinct routes to value creation: making existing work more efficient, improving current products, or creating new offerings. According to the article, to move past this adoption plateau, leaders must match their strategy with suitable organisational capabilities, rather than simply adding more tools and expanding deployment.
Summary based on the article's title and standfirst, as the text is not accessible.
Read the article on Harvard Business Review →Figures cited
-
75 %
Share of the US public companies studied that have invested in AI and moved beyond the pilot stage
More than 600 US public companies
« A study of more than 600 U.S. public companies found that roughly three-quarters have invested in AI and moved beyond pilots but have yet to earn a shareholder-return premium over industry peers. »
Classification
- Country
- United States
- Company size
- All sizes
- Industries
- All industries, or industry not specified
- Keywords
- return on investment, shareholder value, AI strategy, productivity, organisational transformation
Entry written by Marsanne Studio from the cited article, with the help of an AI model (claude-sonnet-5). The rights to the article and its illustrations belong to Harvard Business Review and its authors. Entry translated from French by Claude Sonnet 5.5.