Emily DeJeu
Assistant Teaching Professor of Business Communication
- Pittsburgh PA UNITED STATES
Emily DeJeu's work explores AI, learning and curriculum design, and workplace communication.
Biography
In addition to her teaching and research, Emily serves as Faculty Media Content Coordinator for Tepperspectives, Tepper’s thought leadership platform, and is a faculty lead for the Tepper School’s Executive Education courses in AI and professional communication. She teaches undergraduate, graduate, and executive education courses on business communication, presentations, and data storytelling. She is a recognized expert on the implications of generative AI for communication and learning and has provided commentary for outlets including CNN, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Bloomberg, and AP News. Emily received her MA and PhD in Rhetoric from Carnegie Mellon University.
Areas of Expertise
Media Appearances
As AI tools reshape education, schools struggle with how to draw the line on cheating
Borneo Bulletin online
2025-09-12
Emily DeJeu, who teaches communication courses at Carnegie Mellon’s business school, has eliminated writing assignments as homework and replaced them with in-class quizzes done on laptops in “a lockdown browser” that blocks students from leaving the quiz screen.
AI Wellness Influencers Are The Latest Social Media Scam You Need To Watch Out For. Here’s What To Know.
HuffPost online
2026-07-27
Emily DeJeu, an assistant teaching professor of business communications at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and expert in AI for business communication, said there’s one test she likes to use when considering any kind of health solution — “this economics principle that people learn in high school; there’s no such thing as a free lunch, which captures that idea. If it sounds too good to be true, then it’s definitely not true.”
For women, being creative at work comes with a hidden cost
Fast Company online
2026-07-15
“Women possess just as much capacity for innovation as men,” says Emily DeJeu, an assistant teaching professor of business management communication at Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business. “But the social costs and risks are higher to express that because you’re not guaranteed that it’s going to be well received.”
Welcome to the age of AI sprawl
Business Insider online
2026-06-21
"On an individual level we do that all the time," says Emily DeJeu, professor in Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business. "The purpose of organizations is to bring together all of these people who satisfice and to try and get them to coordinate and work towards shared goals in ways that are, at scale, productive."
No one can agree on whether AI is the next big thing or all hype. Here’s why
CNN online
2026-02-19
Still, the free version of AI apps doesn’t paint the full picture of what the technology is capable of, according to Emily DeJeu, a professor who teaches courses about the use of AI in business at Carnegie Mellon University. She said it would be “misguided” to make assumptions about AI’s capabilities based solely on free AI services.
What 'Mad Men' can teach us about our AI-dominated future
Yahoo! Tech online
2026-03-11
Work where people have to hold multiple ideas in their heads, synthesize, connect them, and produce work is "cognitively very taxing," says Emily DeJeu, a professor in Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business. "It takes time. It also just takes a lot of space and bandwidth, and the idea that AI can assist with that, I think, is a bit fallacious."
The Do’s and Don’ts of Using AI to Write Performance Reviews
The Wall Street Journal online
2026-02-24
Managers should also watch out for the tone the AI uses. It might make an employee’s behavior sound overly positive, or more negative than intended, for example. Or the review may just sound generic, which could harm the employee’s morale and relationship with the boss. “Employees have a radar for that,” says Emily DeJeu, assistant teaching professor of business-management communication at Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business.
AI-Enabled Networking Equips Schools with Connectivity to Support Modern Technology
EdTech Magazine online
2026-01-20
At a high level, AI-enabled networking promises to advance digital equity, says Emily DeJeu, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business whose work focuses on uses of AI in communication and education.
Would you pay extra to talk to a human when travel plans go wrong?
USA Today online
2026-01-19
Is there a way around pay-to-play? Possibly, said Emily DeJeu, who teaches business communication at Carnegie Mellon University. You can become a smarter user of technology, finding ways to circumvent a chatbot.
Survey says Pennsylvanians see the artificial intelligence revolution as a ‘significant threat to humanity’
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette online
2025-12-17
What Pennsylvanians are feeling is nothing new, but it is deeply personal, said Emily DeJeu, a professor of business communication at Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business.
The rise of 'vibe working'
Business Insider online
2025-10-19
"I imagine to this particular demographic of people, that's very appealing: work being about vibing more than it's about analyzing or synthesizing or reporting, which I don't think sounds particularly artistic or creative or collaborative or beautiful," says Emily DeJeu, a professor in Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business. But the term "hides the extent to which it is work," DeJeu says.
Media
Social
Education
Carnegie Mellon University
Ph.D.
Rhetoric
2022
Carnegie Mellon University
M.A.
Rhetoric
Grove City College
B.A.
English and Communication