With rapid technological advancement, leaders more than ever need the skills, confidence, and fluency to use emerging tools effectively with technical and non-technical teams.
No matter the chosen field, solving the world’s greatest challenges of tomorrow will require a strong capacity for strategic, people-centered leadership in concert with technical knowledge. Our programs integrate real-world case studies, cutting-edge models, and custom curriculum to help technologists translate technical expertise into strategic impact through leadership growth that will catalyze your impact on your chosen field. Courses span entrepreneurship, impactful communication, product management, organizational innovation, and applied AI.
Summer Sessions
Below are our offered courses for the Summer 2026 term.
This course covers management and innovation for technology firms. It provides an in-depth look at how technology firms decide on which organization model to use in order to reduce silos and leverage the different parts of the firm to create a greater whole. Next, an in-depth look at how well structured firms optimize technology strategy and operations. The workshop then covers how optimally organized firms create innovation programs and corporate incubators.
Over the course of the semester, students will gain exposure to a wide variety of scenarios and decisions faced by an entrepreneur interested in starting a scalable business. Using a variety of cases, this course will explore evaluating opportunities, customer discovery, planning for and launching an entrepreneurial endeavor (especially those that could attract third party financing), fundraising, the Business Model Canvas and exit. Students will be required to employ technical abilities and multidisciplinary analysis while digesting and dissecting case studies. Class discussions will focus on issues raised in case studies, including analysis, brainstorming, diagnosis, and recommendations.
Through carefully selected case studies, you’ll engage with real-world business applications of machine learning, computer vision, and digital twins while developing the leadership skills needed to drive technological innovation. Working with peers and industry experts, you’ll analyze how top firms are cutting costs and boosting efficiency with AI through collaborative exercises and discussions. You’ll tackle concrete challenges like predictive maintenance and automated quality control, gaining practical tools and proven strategies for your organization. Join a cohort of future engineering leaders ready to turn AI’s potential into measurable business results.
This course is designed to empower students to become better communicators. We will explore fundamental lessons, like crafting a core message and understanding your audience. Students will cover the importance of delivery and presence. We will cover foundational lessons from storytelling and students will have the opportunity to craft and present multiple stories and give and receive feedback. Students will learn how to make use of supporting materials, like slides, to enhance their presentations.
This highly interactive course equips emerging tech leaders with the mindset, methods, and practical tools of modern product management. Students will learn how great products are conceived, validated, and delivered – starting from deep customer understanding and moving
through hypothesis-driven problem statements, effective user interviews, business case modeling, roadmap development, iterative scoping, prioritization, and product storytelling. Through hands-on exercises, case examples from global tech companies and startups, and collaborative critiques, students build a “walking-around deck” that demonstrates their ability to translate customer insights into compelling product strategies. The course emphasizes critical thinking, data-informed decision-making, and implicit leadership – skills that enable students to influence stakeholders, rally teams, and bring clarity to complex product decisions regardless of their future role.