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BUSN 5020: Strategic Management in the Age of AI: Aligning, Adapting, and Advancing
Credits: 2.0
Level: GR
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not just a technological revolutionâit is a strategic inflection point. This course equips senior leaders and decision-makers with the strategic tools, frameworks, and insights needed to navigate the evolving AI landscape. Through a case-based curriculum rooted in real-world business challenges and opportunities, participants will explore how AI transforms industry structures, redefines value chains, reshapes organizational capabilities, and enables new forms of strategic agility.
BUSN 5030: Strategic Execution in the Age of AI
Credits: 2.0
Level: GR
This course is meant to enable senior executives to lead various strategic initiatives that might be required for AI integration Comcast. Participants will learn how to conduct strategy alignment and organizational readiness diagnostics, realign structure and culture, redesign roles and workflows, and lead execution under uncertainty using advanced AI tools.
BUSN 5040: Applied AI & Machine Learning for Business
Credits: 2.0
Level: GR
This introductory course provides a broad exploration of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), focusing on fundamental concepts, real-world applications, and emerging trends. Students will learn about the history of AI, problem-solving strategies, search algorithms, adversarial agents, classification and clustering techniques, neural networks and deep learning, reinforcement learning, generative AI, and large language models. Ethical considerations, societal impacts, and the future of AI will also be discussed. No prior programming experience is required.
BUSN 5060: Adaptive Leadership in AI-Driven Environments
Credits: 2.0
Level: GR
This course explores innovative leadership in the generative AI era, examining how leaders can augment strategic decision-making processes and transform team management. We will draw on and develop frameworks for using generative AI to enhance strategic thinking while learning to manage AI as an effective “fifth team member.” This course emphasizes both leveraging AI for innovative leadership and developing the skills to direct, assess, and integrate AI to solve strategic and organizational challenges. Participants will engage with real problem-solving from multiple perspectives while developing evaluation criteria for AI-enhanced management. Participants will explore how to develop leadership heuristics for integrating generative AI into decision-making and team coordination.
BUSN 6001: Economic Competitive Advantage in the Age of AI
Credits: 1.0
Level: GR
This residency focuses on building and understanding your capabilities to assess the economic fundamentals of an organization and the industry in which it operates and how AI influences some of those fundamentals. Participants will use those fundamentals to discuss and analyze how it leads to more informed business decision-making.
BUSN 6021: Leading in Ambiguity
Credits: 1.0
Level: GR
The future of leadership demands more than experience â it requires self-awareness, strategic agility, and the ability to lead alongside intelligent systems. This course challenges students to sharpen their leadership effectiveness by exploring how personality, values, and decision-making impact organizational outcomes. Through immersive experiences, leaders will deepen their capacity for reflection, strengthen their influence, and develop actionable strategies for navigating complexity. Participants take a future-focused view of leadership, examining how executives shape culture, build resilient networks, and drive performance in dynamic, technology-enabled environments. With hands-on engagement using AI tools and simulations, students will explore what it means to collaborate with AI teammates.
BUSN 6040: Negotiations for Executive Leaders
Credits: 2.0
Level: GR
Negotiation is a life-long skill for leaders that is important in a variety of business relationships. Every day leaders negotiate with coworkers, colleagues, partners, suppliers, distributors, customers, the government, etc. Determining what price we as leaders will pay, the amount of our salary and compensation, who will do what assignment, the terms of a contract â all of these are negotiations. Why do we sometimes get our way, while at other times walk away frustrated by our inability to achieve the agreement and resolution we want? Negotiation is the art and science of securing agreements and resolving disputes between two or more interdependent parties. Leaders not only need analytical skills to discover optimal solutions to problems (the science), but also good negotiation skills.
BUSN 5010: Foundations of AI-Powered Business Analytics
Credits: 2.0
Level: GR
Business Analytics is an interactive process of analyzing and exploring enterprise data, in order to understand the past, make predictions about the future, and guide decision-making. In this course, students will learn how to use analytics in their decision-making, including AI tools. Analytics through the methodology of problem framing, model building, analysis, and communicating insights are explored.
BUSN 6050: Responsible Leadership for AI Design & Governance
Credits: 1.0
Level: GR
This course reframes AI from a back-office tool to a strategic collaborator shaping decisions, workflows, and organizational futures. Participants will explore how HumanâAI Governance ensures that AI adoption aligns with business strategy, ethical principles, and cultural values, while gaining practical frameworks for implementation in their organizations.