Karan Girotra is a professor of operations, technology, and information management at Cornell Tech and Cornell University. He collaborates with companies building new business models in the areas of urban living, smart transportation, and e-commerce, helping them design rigorous, research-based solutions. Professor Girotra’s research team has been recognized by many awards, including the prestigious Wickham Skinner Early Career Research Award and multiple best paper awards. He has also won awards for his teaching on entrepreneurship and new business models, and was featured in the Poets & Quants Best 40 Under 40 business professors list. In addition to his academic work, Professor Girotra is one of the founders of TerraPass Inc., which the New York Times identified as one of the most noteworthy ideas of 2005. Since then, TerraPass has helped businesses and individuals reduce over 100 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions. Professor Girotra holds Ph.D. and A.M. degrees from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and a Bachelor’s degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.
AI and Business Transformation Cornell Certificate Program
Overview
Recent breakthroughs in “artificial intelligence” have enabled machines to develop new forms of cognition—classifying, manipulating, and generating linguistic and visual artifacts. The underlying technologies have the potential to go further and automate tasks commonly associated with the highest levels of human intelligence.
In this live online program, Professor Giotra, will drive you to critically evaluate the most effective ways to adopt AI technologies.
Meeting live online on Mondays and Wednesdays twice a week from 5pm – 7pm ET for 5 weeks you will have the opportunity to explore how advances in AI have enabled new, automated, highly scalable, low-cost ways of doing cognitive work. Like other general-purpose technologies— AI has the potential to radically increase individual productivity, transform organizational processes, enable new business models, and shift economic and political power.
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Key Course Takeaways
- Examine the history of AI and assess current capabilities
- Asses the future of AI and what additional capabilities will or will not be unlocked soon
- Identify ways to collaborate with AI co-pilots and become a 10x-leader by unlocking your personal productivity
- Identify ways to deploy AI to reinvent how your organization functions i.e. increasing efficiency, connectivity, flexibility, scalability, and developing groundbreaking new products and services
- Identify new pricing, production, employment, and sourcing models enabled by AI for your industry
- Develop the right competitive and strategic positioning for your organization in the AI age
- Assess the legal and ethical concerns with deploying AI
- Get started with an AI venture: Validate, experiment with, prototype, and derisk an AI venture
What You'll Earn
- AI and Business Transformation Certificate from Cornell Tech
- 45 Professional Development Hours (4.5 CEUs)
Who Should Enroll
- Organizational leaders, entrepreneurs, and individual contributors who want to best leverage AI and transform themselves, their organizations, and entire industries
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