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Special Topics Managing AI in Business
Fall Semester

Course Calendar

A continuous chronological map of the semester. Classes meet Mondays and Wednesdays.

Sun
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Sat
August
Aug 1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
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20
21
22
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Class
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Class
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Week 01
Orientation & AI Workshop

Orientation, expectations, and the classroom economy. Wednesday: AI Workshop, Google Gemini setup, prompt fundamentals.

September
30
31
Class
Sep 1
2
Class
3
4
5
Week 02
Macro-Econ & Pitch Round

Macro-econ and competitive landscape. Wednesday: Business plan pitch to financiers.

6
7
Labor Day
8
9
Class
10
11
12
Week 03
The Team

Agentic workforce design, HR, specialization, and managing context windows.

13
14
Class
15
16
Class
17
18
19
Week 04
The Rules

Legal environment, compliance, entity formalization, ToS assessment, governance layer.

20
21
Class
22
23
Class
24
25
26
Week 05
The Hustle

Marketing fundamentals, promotional strategy, referral-revenue prisoner's dilemma.

October
27
28
Class
29
30
Class
Oct 1
2
3
Week 06
The Machine

Operations, supply chain, scaling output. QC promotion and process optimization.

4
5
Class
6
7
Class
8
9
10
Week 07
The Director's Chair

Managing managers, delegation, context drift, centralization vs. decentralization.

11
12
Class
13
14
Midterm
15
16
17
Week 08
The War Game (Midterm)

Final contingency planning. Wednesday: The War Game simulation with cascading inbox events.

18
19
Class
20
21
Class
22
23
24
Week 09
Reorg & Strategy Reset

Post-simulation performance reviews. Strategy reset based on War Game performance.

25
26
Class
27
28
Class
29
30
31
Week 10
Audit & GAAP

Accounting fundamentals, producing clean ledgers, regulatory filings, audit prep.

November
Nov 1
2
Class
3
4
Class
5
6
7
Week 11
International & Cross-Border

Foreign exchange, cross-border capital flows, trade dynamics, tariffs.

8
9
Class
10
11
Class
12
13
14
Week 12
Governance & Exit Strategy

The fiduciary lens, ESG reporting. Wednesday: M&A, IPOs, SEC disclosure, exit mechanics.

15
16
Class
17
18
Class
19
20
21
Week 13
Investor Relations & Sales

Delivering a business presentation, narrative strategy, the art of the pitch.

22
23
Holiday
24
25
Holiday
26
27
28
Thanksgiving Break
Campus Closed

No classes all week. Enjoy the break.

December
29
30
Class
Dec 1
2
Class
3
4
5
Week 14
The Override Journal

Evaluating AI output vs human judgment. Analyzing override logs.

6
7
Class
8
9
Class
10
11
12
Week 15
Summit Prep & Close-out

Review and close-out of the semester. Finalizing presentations.

13
14
Class
15
16
Capstone
17
18
19
Week 16
Davos: The Economic Summit

Final capstone presentations. Map reviews and sector grading.

20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31