MIT Sloan School of Management
Navigating AI: Driving Business Impact and Developing Human Capability
Unlock the strategic opportunities of AI for your business and effectively lead your people through the transformation
Start date
12 November 2025
Course duration
5 months
Excluding orientation
Language
English
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Effort
6–8 hours per week
Self-paced learning online
Program overview
Cultivate both a deep understanding of AI technologies and the advanced leadership skills required to lead an organization through digital disruption
Workshop ideas, gain insights, and foster connections with the minds shaping the future of AI
The MIT Sloan Navigating AI: Driving Business Impact and Developing Human Capability course is designed to help you meet the escalating demand for strategic AI- and machine learning-informed leadership and gain a strategic advantage for your organization in an AI-driven world. This program integrates AI and machine learning technology, business strategy, and human-centric change management — preparing you not just for technological adoption, but also for the significant organizational transformation that accompanies digital disruption.
The course takes a collaborative, hands-on approach to developing AI-informed leadership skills for real-world application, featuring practical capstone projects focused on creating a plan to leverage AI, turning technological capabilities into a clear strategic advantage for an organization. Live sessions will give you the opportunity to network with a cohort of likeminded business leaders and engage directly with MIT Faculty, allowing you to workshop your ideas in real time with the minds shaping the future of AI.
Is this MIT AI and machine learning course for you?
This program is ideal for executives and business professionals seeking a comprehensive understanding of AI and machine learning, their impact at the level of the individual, team, and organization, and how they can be strategically applied to organization-specific use cases. Business leaders across all industries stand to benefit from this expert-led MIT AI and machine learning leadership course.
This program comprises three individual courses that can be taken separately to focus on specific AI areas.
- Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Business Strategy focuses on the business impact of AI and teaches strategic decision making in 6 weeks.
- Machine Learning in Business helps leaders incorporate machine learning into their business strategy and teaches the skills needed to implement effective strategies – without the need for coding – in 6 weeks.
- Managing the Human Side of Digital Disruption provides the tools needed to approach digital transformation from a human perspective, teaching the skills needed to successfully lead organizations through digital change in 6 weeks.
Program overview
MIT AI and ML course overview
The MIT Sloan Navigating AI: Driving Business Impact and Developing Human Capability course is designed to help you meet the escalating demand for strategic AI- and machine learning-informed leadership and gain a strategic advantage for your organization in an AI-driven world. This program integrates AI and machine learning technology, business strategy, and human-centric change management — preparing you not just for technological adoption, but also for the significant organizational transformation that accompanies digital disruption.
The course takes a collaborative, hands-on approach to developing AI-informed leadership skills for real-world application, featuring practical capstone projects focused on creating a plan to leverage AI, turning technological capabilities into a clear strategic advantage for an organization. Live sessions will give you the opportunity to network with a cohort of likeminded business leaders and engage directly with MIT Faculty, allowing you to workshop your ideas in real time with the minds shaping the future of AI.
Is this MIT AI and machine learning course for you?
This program is ideal for executives and business professionals seeking a comprehensive understanding of AI and machine learning, their impact at the level of the individual, team, and organization, and how they can be strategically applied to organization-specific use cases. Business leaders across all industries stand to benefit from this expert-led MIT AI and machine learning leadership course.
This program comprises three individual courses that can be taken separately to focus on specific AI areas.
- Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Business Strategy focuses on the business impact of AI and teaches strategic decision making in 6 weeks.
- Machine Learning in Business helps leaders incorporate machine learning into their business strategy and teaches the skills needed to implement effective strategies – without the need for coding – in 6 weeks.
- Managing the Human Side of Digital Disruption provides the tools needed to approach digital transformation from a human perspective, teaching the skills needed to successfully lead organizations through digital change in 6 weeks.
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Leading organisations recognise the value of this course and invest in it to enhance their employees' skills and expertise.
What will set you apart
The ability to evaluate the appropriateness of a business application for machine learning, generative AI, and robotics technologies.
A tailored roadmap for your organization to gain a strategic advantage through the application of artificial intelligence.
The capability to relate the Transition-Curve Framework to different challenges presented in digital transformations.
The skills to analyze the interplay between the three dimensions of transformation, and the confidence to recommend approaches for proactively managing digital transformation.Course curriculum
Orientation module
Welcome to your Online Campus
Section 1: AI Implications for Business Strategy
- Module 1: An Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
- Module 2: Machine Learning in Business
- Module 3: Generative AI in Business
- Module 4: Robotics in Business
- Module 5: Artificial Intelligence in Business and Society
- Module 6: The Future of Artificial Intelligence
Section 2: Machine Learning in Business
- Module 1: Introduction to Machine Learning
- Module 2: Implementing Machine Learning in Business
- Module 3: Sensing the Physical World
- Module 4: Helping Machines to Learn Language
- Module 5: Finding Patterns in Human Transactions
- Module 6: Machine Learning Challenges and Future
Section 3: Introduction to Handling the Human Side of Digital Transformation
- Module 1: Navigating Transformational Change from the Human Perspective
- Module 2: Transitioning to New Roles
- Module 3: Leading People through Capability Shifts
- Module 4: Navigating Emotions
- Module 5: Roles, Capabilities, and Emotions: A Complex Mix to Manage
- Module 6: Mapping the Transition Journey
Course faculty directors
Thomas Malone
Patrick J. McGovern (1959) Professor of Management, MIT Sloan School of Management; Director, MIT Center for Collective Intelligence
Daniela Rus
Andrew (1956) and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
Hal Gregersen
Senior Lecturer, Work and Organization Studies at MIT Sloan School of Management; Innosight fellow; cofounder of Innovator’s DNA consulting group
Roger Lehman
Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management; Program Director, INSEAD Coaching and Consulting for Change Program
About the certificate
Learn how to lead effectively in the era of AI and earn an official certificate of completion from MIT.
Assessment is continuous and based on a series of practical assignments completed online. In order to be issued with your digital certificate, you’ll need to meet the requirements outlined in the course program handbook. The handbook will be made available to you as soon as you begin the course.
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