Business Strategy in an AI-first World

New

4 Weeks

Cohort-based Course

For tech industry professionals who want to navigate how AI is impacting their company and product strategy. Small cohort (capped at 8).

Business Strategy in an AI-first World

New

4 Weeks

Cohort-based Course

For tech industry professionals who want to navigate how AI is impacting their company and product strategy. Small cohort (capped at 8).

Hosted by

Tom Leung

Former Google Health AI PM Director, Harvard MBA, former strategy consultant.

Tom Leung

Former Google Health AI PM Director, Harvard MBA, former strategy consultant.

Previously at

Course overview

Unpack AI business strategy through four recent Harvard Business School cases

In this course, we will as a group, unpack 4 tech strategy HBS case studies with major AI elements (ML, Gen AI, LLM's) and learn about key business frameworks and lenses to solve business problems in general.

In my time at Harvard, we did almost 1,000 case analyses. You will get experience opening a business case, analyzing the business and an industry, analyzing business data and information, assessing the decisions facing the CEO of an AI impacted business, evaluate strategic options and tradeoffs, and analyze and debate these topics with a graduate school level of rigor.

We'll dig into answering questions like:

1. How are the industry specific forces going to change, evolve, or remain constant because of AI?

2. What strategic options are available to the protagonist companies? How should we pick a path forward?

3. What are the key metrics and data driven evidence we can use to inform our decisions and evaluate our AI-aware strategy?

Who is this course for

Product managers, marketers, salespeople who want to broaden their skill set and understand the strategy of AI.

Professionals who work with business and strategy teams and required to successfully harness AI for their planning.

Product Managers who want to be more successful writing up annual planning proposals especially if they will be asked about AI implications.

Product managers, marketers, salespeople who want to broaden their skill set and understand the strategy of AI.

Professionals who work with business and strategy teams and required to successfully harness AI for their planning.

Product Managers who want to be more successful writing up annual planning proposals especially if they will be asked about AI implications.

What you’ll get out of this course

Strategy meets AI

Understand the unique considerations for AI-first product decisions.

Business Strategy Assessment

Get practice understanding and unpacking an industry structure and company's business model and business performance including the impact of AI.

Business Analysis

Dig into the financial and business artifacts to get to the essence of a business problem including unique considerations when building AI capabilities.

Management Discussions

Experience what it's like making business decisions and advocating for them in the face of pushback and debate including when AI is introducing new tradeoffs.

Tech Industry Insights

Cases will be featuring current tech companies facing real challenges and AI opportunities relevant for today.

This course includes

4 interactive live sessions

Lifetime access to course materials

18 in-depth lessons

Direct access to instructor

1 project to apply learnings

Guided feedback & reflection

Private community of peers

Course certificate upon completion

Maven Satisfaction Guarantee

This course is backed by Maven’s guarantee. You can receive a full refund within 14 days after the course ends, provided you meet the completion criteria in our refund policy.

Course syllabus

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Week 1
Jul 7
Week dates are set to instructor's time zone
Events
Jul
7
Session 1
Session 1
Sun, Jul 7, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM UTC
Modules
Icebreaker and intros
Icebreaker and intros
0 Lessons • 0 Projects
Case 1: AI Wars
Case 1: AI Wars
3 Lessons • 1 Project
Get ready for next week's Case!
Get ready for next week's Case!
1 Lesson
Week 2
Jul 8—Jul 14
Week dates are set to instructor's time zone
Events
Jul
14
Session 2
Session 2
Sun, Jul 14, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM UTC
Modules
This week's AI News Update
This week's AI News Update
1 Lesson
Generative AI at Microsoft and GitHub
Generative AI at Microsoft and GitHub
3 Lessons
Get ready for next week's Case!
Get ready for next week's Case!
1 Lesson
Week 3
Jul 15—Jul 21
Week dates are set to instructor's time zone
Events
Jul
21
Session 3
Session 3
Sun, Jul 21, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM UTC
Modules
This week's AI News Update
This week's AI News Update
1 Lesson
Riiid: Scaling AI Education Services Globally
Riiid: Scaling AI Education Services Globally
3 Lessons
Get ready for next week's Case!
Get ready for next week's Case!
1 Lesson
Week 4
Jul 22—Jul 28
Week dates are set to instructor's time zone
Events
Jul
28
Session 4
Session 4
Sun, Jul 28, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM UTC
Modules
This week's AI News Update
This week's AI News Update
1 Lesson
ChatGPT and Generative AI in Accounting
ChatGPT and Generative AI in Accounting
3 Lessons
Course retrospective, reflection, and discussion
Course retrospective, reflection, and discussion
0 Lessons • 0 Projects

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What people are saying

Over three years in Google Health, I saw firsthand Tom's extraordinary skills in breaking through all the complexity and distractions, crisply articulating the situation or state of affairs, understanding the essence of a product, and aligning it to customer needs in a compelling way.

John Moses

VP, ŌURA

Tom is a charismatic technology leader who thinks big and delivers. I witnessed Tom grow a product organization from scratch, motivate hundreds of x-functional team members and facing enormous obstacles, land a mission-critical YouTube product for millions of creators. Tom manages with empathy and passion and always keeps it fun.

Ian Fulton

GPM, Google

I was grateful for Tom's insights, vision, and creativity while I supported the growing team as an execution partner. He provided the right direction and strategy while keeping us informed and motivated. Tom has a great depth and breadth of knowledge – I was able to avoid potential missteps due to his generous sharing of his own experiences...

Brittany Crosby

Director of Innovation, Pfizer

Tom is a superb product leader and entrepreneur. As a leader, he is unusual in being really good at both the strategic and the tactical levels. He leaves no stone unturned in trying to solve a problem -- while keeping all stakeholders abreast with his rationales, methods and progress. I would invest in anything Tom works on.

Phil Mui

SVP, Salesforce AI Research

Every once in awhile I encounter someone who truly impresses and inspires me. Tom is one of those people. Wisdom: Tom has an amazing attitude. He has amazing values. He is pragmatic and embraces reality. He is self-aware and emotionally in-control. He appreciates everything and takes nothing for granted...

Aaron Saarnat

Design, AI2

I use a simple litmus to determine whom I recommend: would I spend my own money on their salary in a startup? With Tom, the answer is a resounding YES. He's great at team building, & has a product vision I have seldom seen. If you're lucky enough to have the opportunity to work with, hire, invest in, brain pick or otherwise cavort with Tom, do so.

Matthew Berk

CEO, Beanbox

Meet your instructor

Tom Leung

Tom was responsible for the PM team that launched Google's first AI-powered healthcare provider tool into multiple hospitals from 2021-2023 as part of Google's Health AI moonshot. Tom has over 20 years of product management leadership experience as well as experience as a 2X co-founder (both businesses were acquired) and took most of his second year MBA classes at Harvard Business School in the strategy department.

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