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Executive AI Education
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Stanford Online: AI for Executives
https://online.stanford.edu/courses/xgal0002-ai-driven-leadership-strategies-future stanford.edu July 2025
Description: Outlines a hybrid course on AI strategy, tailored for U.S.-based leaders, focusing on practical applications.
MIT Sloan: AI for Executives Course
https://executive.mit.edu/course/artificial-intelligence/a056g00000URaa3AAD.html mit.edu July 2025
Description: Describes a 6-week online program for executives, covering AI strategy, machine learning, and ethics.
Deloitte: A Guide to AI for CEO’s
https://www.deloitte.com/us/en/services/consulting/articles/generative-ai-for-ceos.html deloitte.com June 2025
Description: This article highlights that 79% of CEOs prioritize generative AI for accelerating innovation, emphasizing their critical role in leading AI-driven transformations to enhance workforce dynamics, operational efficiency, and business models. It provides perspectives on how CEOs can strategically invest, communicate a vision, and build trust to evolve their organizations into intelligent and autonomous enterprises.
Deloitte: AI and Workforce Strategy
https://www.deloitte.com/us/en/services/consulting/articles/generative-ai-for-ceos.html June 2025
Description: This article emphasizes that 79% of CEOs see generative AI as a key driver for accelerating innovation, highlighting the critical role of CEOs in leading AI-driven transformations. It outlines how CEOs can leverage their experience as dealmakers and visionaries to strategically invest in generative AI, fostering trust and evolving organizations into intelligent and autonomous enterprises.
Coursera: AI for Everyone
https://www.coursera.org/learn/ai-for-everyone coursera.org May 2025
Description: Offers an accessible course on AI concepts for non-technical North American executives, covering workflows and societal impacts.
Growthspace: AI Enhances Employee Experience with Empathy
https://www.growthspace.com/post/ai-reshaping-employee-experience growthspace.com May 2025
Description: This webinar recap explores AI’s role in personalizing employee journeys, improving workforce planning, and connecting data systems, while emphasizing empathy and human relationships. Panelists from UCSF, Sutter Health, and Monarch Advisors highlight the need for responsible AI governance, cross-functional oversight, and starting small with measurable pilots to build trust and drive adoption.
PwC: AI-driven Strategy: Intelligence Meets Agility
https://www.pwc.com/us/en/library/webcasts/replay/ai-strategy.html pwc.com May 2025
Description: This webcast explores how AI can transform business strategies by enabling data-driven decision-making, enhancing operational efficiency, and fostering competitive agility across the value chain. Featuring insights from PwC specialists and Lamar Advertising’s SVP of Technology, it highlights practical approaches to scaling AI responsibly and adapting to AI-native disruptors in a rapidly evolving digital economy.
Forrester: AI and Customer Experience 2025
https://www.forrester.com/report/verizon-drives-growth-through-an-ai-enhanced-personalized-customer-experience/RES182401 forrester.com May 2025
Description: This case study details how Verizon Business leveraged an AI-backed guided selling and real-time marketing ecosystem to optimize sales and marketing processes, enhancing productivity and agility. This innovative use of AI and automation helped Verizon gain a competitive advantage by delivering personalized customer experiences and driving organizational growth.
BCG: AI-Powered Decision Making
https://www.bcg.com/x/product-library/fabriq-marketing-personalization-platform bcg.com March 2025
Description: This article introduces Fabriq, a modular, AI-driven marketing personalization platform that integrates with existing tech stacks to enhance customer experiences, achieving outcomes like $1 billion in incremental sales for a B2B food service distributor and an 83% increase in new accounts for a health plan. Recognized with the 2024 SIIA CODiE Award for Best Marketing Solution, Fabriq empowers marketers with real-time personalization, media optimization, and seamless campaign management, driving 2-3x customer engagement and 6-10% sales lift
Harvard Business School: AI in Supply Chains
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=67197 hbs.com March 2025
Description: Details how AI cut supply chain costs by 18% at Procter & Gamble, providing executives with a practical case study for strategic AI adoption.
McKinsey & Company: The AI Leadership Gap 2025
https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/mckinsey-digital/our-insights/ai-in-action February 2025
Description: This article explores the transformative potential of AI in the workplace, highlighting that while employees are ready to adopt AI, leadership barriers hinder scaling, with only 1% of companies believing they are at AI maturity. Through four interactive learning modules, it addresses AI sentiments, responsible deployment, and the critical role of leaders in fostering trust and driving adoption.
INSEAD: Leading AI Program
https://digital.insead.edu/post/global-ai-development-governance-a-view-from-china/ insead.edu June 2024
Description: Details a 5-day intensive, focusing on AI governance and implementation for executives.
MIT Sloan: AI in Manufacturing 2025
https://sloanreview.mit.edu/audio/driving-manufacturing-efficiency-with-ai-pirellis-daniele-petecchi/ mit.edu March 2024
Description: Shows AI reduced downtime by 22%, offering executives practical use cases for AI in manufacturing operations.
Harvard Business Review: Why Leaders Must Master AI
https://hbr.org/2023/08/ai-wont-replace-humans-but-humans-with-ai-will-replace-humans-without-ai August 2023
Description: Highlights that executives engaging with AI tools are better positioned to drive innovation, with North American case studies emphasizing the need for AI literacy in leadership.
World Economic Forum: AI Leadership 2023
https://www.weforum.org/publications/the-future-of-jobs-report-2023/ weforum.org April 2023
Description: Explores AI’s impact on leadership roles and the need for North American executive education to adapt.
Korn Ferry: The Brain Behind Linkedin
https://www.kornferry.com/insights/briefings-magazine/issue-5/60-the-brain-behind-linkedin kornferry.com January 2011
Description: This article chronicles Reid Hoffman’s journey from Stanford to founding LinkedIn, highlighting his focus on creating a professional networking platform that empowers individuals to manage their online identities and career opportunities in a networked society. It details how LinkedIn’s simple, scalable design and privacy-conscious approach have transformed professional connections, achieving over 73 million users by 2011 while avoiding the privacy issues plaguing other social media platforms.