The July 2026 update of A Framework for Artificial Intelligence in Business Education widens its lens from 48 to 84 business schools across five continents. Among them, Centrum PUCP is documented moving from adopting AI tools to building AI capability across its MBA, its faculty development and its applied research.
Six months after Centrum PUCP was highlighted for the impact of its AI-based teaching innovations, the July 2026 edition of A Framework for Artificial Intelligence in Business Education: Exemplars and Critical Themes for Successful Integration documents a new stage in the school’s evolution.
The report, written by Tawnya Means and published by Inspire Higher Ed with the support of AACSB, GMAC and the Graduate Business Curriculum Roundtable, expands the community it analyses from 48 to 84 business schools. That 75% growth brings in 17 institutions based outside the United States, from roughly a dozen countries across five continents. The report is a voluntary sample of institutional practice, not a ranking.
Why the wider sample matters
Much of the published evidence on AI in business education has so far come from well-resourced North American institutions. The July update changes the composition of that evidence base. Questions the field treats as universal — how to govern AI infrastructure, what AI literacy actually means, where ethics sits institutionally — are now being documented in schools operating under very different budget, regulatory and labour-market conditions.
Centrum PUCP’s inclusion adds a Latin American reading of those questions, from a country where the challenge is not only to adopt the technology but to widen who gets access to it.
A new stage in AI integration
The update does not simply restate the mention published in January. Comparing the schools that took part in both editions, the report describes Centrum PUCP’s main progress as a deepening of its research and of the integration of artificial intelligence across its academic programmes.
The new edition notes that artificial intelligence has been incorporated into the MBA as an expected learning outcome. It also reports that the certificate developed with EADA is now oriented towards AI-driven strategic decision-making, and that Centrum PUCP has expanded its faculty research in the field.
Taken together, these developments mark a transition from the use of specific tools towards the cross-cutting development of the capacity to understand, evaluate and apply artificial intelligence in business and decision-making contexts.
Faculty development as the condition for sustainable change
In the theme devoted to faculty development, the report places Centrum PUCP among the international models of teaching capacity building, highlighting in particular the AI fundamentals workshops delivered during 2024 and 2025.
That experience speaks to one of the study’s central conclusions: educational transformation is not a procurement exercise. It also requires sustained, hands-on training, room to experiment, and the institutional conditions that allow faculty to innovate responsibly.
Business simulation and applied learning
The July edition also incorporates Centrum PUCP’s use of chatbots and voicebots to simulate real business situations, together with the integration of artificial intelligence into its Applied Research Methodology course.
The report links this integration to a 16.5% increase in average grades. That result was first communicated in the January edition and is revisited here as evidence of pedagogical continuity rather than as a new July finding. The emphasis of the update falls on simulation, deliberate practice and preparing students to operate in business scenarios supported by artificial intelligence.
Four shifts the field is making
Internationally, the update identifies four movements: from building infrastructure to governing it; from requiring AI literacy to defining what it actually means; from acquiring tools to sustaining partnerships; and from treating ethics as curriculum content to embedding it as institutional structure.
Centrum PUCP’s documented trajectory maps onto that transformation. Its experience connects faculty development, teaching innovation, applied research and leadership capability building — a contribution from Peru to the international debate on the future of business education.
Read the full update: https://inspirehighered.com/report
Fecha: 14/08/2026 
