46-990 Strategic Application of AI for Business

6 units, Carnegie Mellon University

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as a transformative force across industries, reshaping how businesses operate, innovate, and compete. This course is designed to provide graduate-level students with a foundational yet nuanced understanding of AI's role in the modern business landscape. It emphasizes the interplay between AI technologies and business strategies, offering insights into how AI enables new possibilities, optimizes decision-making, and drives competitive advantage. Students will learn to embrace AI as an agent of transformational and strategic business change/ development and to adopt an AI-first mindset and will learn to articulate their perspectives in ways that drive business outcomes. Additionally, students will become familiar with hurdles to AI adoption and strategies to mitigate those and will embrace these in their articulation of business opportunities. Specifically, students will develop an understanding of the power of AI as a development paradigm, familiarity with the different types of AI and fit for classes of problems, and fluency in ascertaining the value of AI initiatives and addressing operating and governance considerations.

Prerequisites: none listed

Offered: Spring 2027, Spring 2026

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