<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/about/newsroom/business-today-artificial-intelligence-comparative-advantage-by-mikhail-pevzner.cfm" dsn="blogs"><featured/><pubDate>07/16/2026</pubDate><title>The New Economics of AI: Faculty Join Forces for a Competitive Advantage</title><description>"How AI Can Reduce Barriers to Cross-Functional Collaboration" by Dr. Mikhail Pevzner</description><author>Business Today</author><image><img src="https://www.ubalt.edu/about/newsroom/assets/images/2000x1500-mikhail_pevzner-01143.jpg" alt="Mikhail Pevzner on the University of Baltimore campus"/></image><image-cap>Mikhail Pevzner, Professor of Accounting</image-cap><quote>AI may be remembered less for replacing human labor than for making specialized knowledge easier to combine.</quote><quote-name>Dr. Mikhail Pevzner</quote-name><quote-info>Professor of Accounting</quote-info><tags><tag>Artificial Intelligence (AI)</tag><tag>Faculty: Mikhail Pevzner</tag><tag>Merrick School of Business</tag></tags></item>