Teaching
"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
Learning is how individuals thrive and how societies flourish. I've been fortunate in my own education, and I'm privileged to now teach at Boston University's Questrom School of Business. My courses cover AI, strategy, and transformation, but each one is really a course in critical thinking and problem solving, disguised as a business class
MS717 Business Context & StrategyAn introduction to the best and latest in strategic thinking - from Porter’s 5 Forces, to Disruptive Innovation, to Non-Market Strategy.
- Analyze industry value chains to identify and evaluate strategic opportunities for competitive advantage.
- Assess a firm's competitive positioning within its industry using appropriate frameworks and tools.
- Articulate how to effectively operationalize a firm’s strategy in its organizational and operating models.
- Formulate and recommend strategic choices that drive growth and foster innovation within organizations.
- Recognize and leverage non-market factors, such as regulatory, social, and political forces, including how competitive advantage can be reshaped by platforms and ecosystems to advance strategic objectives.
MS751 Digital TransformationTechnological change has been the driving force of economic and organizational evolution over the past century generally, and more specifically since the advent of the Internet. We look at the strategic and organizational questions that technological innovation raises, and how different firms in different firms have adapted (or failed).
- Understand context, drivers and barriers to digital transformation
- Adopt a digital and customer centric mindset
- Recognize and participate in the primary customer-centric digital transformation types
- Utilize human-centric transformation enablers
- Harness data and platform transformation enablers
MS777 AI for Business StrategistsI love this course because it’s new each year. AI moves fast, and this course keeps pace. In 7 weeks we go from how LLM’s work, to creating strategic moats, to implications for organizations and society, to vibecoding real AI-powered business ideas.
- Learn the fundamentals of Generative AI, its capabilities and limitations, and how to generate strategic advantage
- Explore Generative AI’s potential to transform work and organizations
- Understand Generative AI’s potential to disrupt / evolve industries and value chains
- Think critically about the societal implications of AI-driven change, and the role of governance, ethics and regulators
- Gain hands-on applied experience building AI-powered tools and applications