In this issue of the HBR Executive Agenda, Ross School of Business professor Felipe A. Csaszar argues that AI can overcome the limits that human strategists face. His research even found that investors rated AI-generated business plans more favorably than those written by entrepreneurs. Csaszar recommends using AI to widen the option set, replace static frameworks, institutionalize structured challenge, and free human strategists to focus on judgment rather than baseline analysis.

For decades, the limits of time and brain capacity meant that teams could consider only so many strategic options before making decisions. Strategy tools—SWOT analyses, portfolio…

In this issue of the HBR Executive Agenda, Ross School of Business professor Felipe A. Csaszar argues that AI can overcome the limits that human strategists face. His research…