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Harnessing AI for Breakthrough
Innovation and Strategic Impact

Program Dates and Application Deadline: See website for details
Program tuition includes private accommodations, all meals, and course materials.
OVERVIEW
Artificial Intelligence is transforming almost every dimension of business, government, and society.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Are you up to speed? Do you understand the risks and rewards? Is there a strategic case for making it
part of your business? Harnessing AI for Breakthrough Innovation and Strategic Impact will give you • Senior-level executives, policymakers,
the technology lay of the land — from generative AI and full autonomy to whatever comes next. You’ll and nonprofit leaders who recognize the
discover best practices and lessons learned from industry leaders who are actually using AI. And, you’ll importance of AI and want to responsibly
explore opportunities and consequences to help you decide if — and where — investing in AI makes harness it
sense for your organization. • Decision makers — from any size organization,
any industry, and any country — who work
Faculty from Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial
with internal or external technology teams
Intelligence (HAI), School of Engineering, Law School, Medical School, and School of Humanities and
Sciences will join forces to demystify AI in a non-technical way, and provide strategies and frameworks to • Investors who want to learn about
help your organization innovate and take the lead. It’s a powerful combination of technological expertise AI trends and gain insights on its effect on
and business innovation you’ll find only at Stanford, in the heart of Silicon Valley. companies
• Ideal for those with little or no technical
KEY BENEFITS expertise in artificial intelligence
• Gain a better understanding of cutting-edge AI technologies and its current uses and misuses.
• Strategize on how to thoughtfully harness AI tools to improve efficiencies, cut costs, provide customer
insights, and generate new product ideas.
• Anticipate potential downstream consequences, weighing the ethical, legal, workforce, and social
implications of AI.
• Learn how to communicate with your technology team to align AI initiatives with your organization’s
strategic goals.
• Collaborate with peers to think through potential AI applications for your organization.
CURRICULUM
Explore the power, potential, and risks of AI technologies and how to leverage it in your organization
to gain a competitive edge. Harnessing AI for Breakthrough Innovation and Strategic Impact delivers a
curriculum unlike any other — created and taught by world-renowned faculty from across the Stanford
campus. You’ll gain multiple perspectives and insights from the leading minds in AI, strategy, innovation,
technology, ethics, and more. It’s a uniquely Stanford experience on a topic that’s essential for today’s
business leaders.
The curriculum has been thoughtfully designed to marry technology, practical applications, and
potential consequences with business objectives and opportunities. Learn how to communicate
with technology teams and make the case for the most effective investments in AI. Take part in an
interdisciplinary and interactive learning experience with faculty lectures and discussions, guest
speakers, an AI lab visit, and group projects with peers.
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PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
EXPERIENCE THE
STANFORD DIFFERENCE CRUCIAL QUESTIONS FOR SUCCESS OF AI APPLICATIONS
In theory, AI algorithms can be applied to a wide set of problems of importance to humanity. In practice,
Stanford Graduate School of Business however, technology itself is only a small portion of the overall success of an application. In this session,
Executive Education programs offer we’ll discuss the crucial issues that must be addressed in most successful applications of AI, which
executives from around the globe an include quality, robustness, usability, optimal mix of humans and automation, trust, evolution, and
extraordinary opportunity to immerse economics.
themselves in an intensive, collaborative
learning environment where the focus THE FUTURE OF THE WORKPLACE
is continually on the future. Taught by
The only thing predictable about the future of work is that there will be lots of change. One day you read
Stanford’s world-renowned faculty
that there is a looming labor shortage as the population ages, the next you read that mass unemployment
and supplemented by guest speakers,
is right around the corner due to the advent of robots and other AI. In this session, we’ll look at trends in
participants acquire the knowledge, vision,
the labor market and the future of work and consider how demographic changes present business and
and skill to bring innovative leadership to
labor market opportunities, as well as challenges. Will the robots really come and, if so, what are the
their organizations while advancing their
implications for today’s employers? We’ll discuss how the answers to these and related questions vary
personal and professional growth.
by labor market and by what expertise in AI your company needs. We’ll also consider how the nature
of future working relationships will be different due to the disruptions caused by COVID, even when the
pandemic is long gone.
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In these sessions, we will discuss a high-level overview of machine learning and its applications to AI. We’ll
For more information, email cover recent advances and how they relate to classic techniques in learning, discussing limitations and
[email protected], risks. We will also review recent applications of AI, focusing on the challenges and pitfalls that arise when
or to apply to the program, visit guiding and managing AI implementation and attempting to apply the technology “out of the box.”
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FACULTY DIRECTORS
This program is taught by a team of tenured, cross-disciplinary faculty who are experts in their fields. In
collaboration with lecturers and guest speakers, they bring cutting-edge research, thought leadership,
and experiential learning to the program experience.
Paul Oyer, the Mary and Rankine Van Anda Entrepreneurial Professor and Professor of
Economics, focuses his research on the economics of organizations and human resource
practices. He is also a Research Associate with the National Bureau of Economics and the
Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Labor Economics. His recent research includes how firms
identify and recruit workers in high-skill and competitive labor markets, with a focus on the
markets for newly minted lawyers and MBAs.
Mykel J. Kochenderfer is Assistant Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and
Assistant Professor, by courtesy, of Computer Science at Stanford University. He is the
director of the Stanford Intelligent Systems Laboratory (SISL), conducting research on
advanced algorithms and analytical methods for the design of robust decision making
systems. Of particular interest are systems for air traffic control, unmanned aircraft, and
automated driving where decisions must be made in uncertain, dynamic environments
while maintaining safety and efficiency.
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