COTRUGLI · MORE THAN A BUSINESS SCHOOL
MBA education.
Leadership for the AI era.
Explore MBA programs for experienced professionals, a bespoke path for senior executives, and ideas at the intersection of AI and leadership. Find the next step that fits your ambitions.
A community of 3,000 MBA alumni.
AMBA-accredited Executive MBA and Chief Executive MBA programs.
Find the MBA that fits your next step
Executive MBA
An MBA designed for working professionals, managers and entrepreneurs. Develop your leadership and business skills while continuing your career.
Explore Executive MBA →Chief Executive MBA
A bespoke MBA for founders and senior executives. Shape your curriculum with senior faculty and study at your own pace over 1–3 years.
Explore your bespoke MBA →Vanguard MBA
Explore leadership, AI and frontier technology. Discover the program and its dedicated application process on the Vanguard website.
Explore Vanguard MBA →Looking for a doctoral program? Explore the Doctorate of Business Administration (DBA).
FOR ORGANISATIONS
Develop your organisation for the AI era
Prepare your leaders to work with AI, navigate ambiguity and turn decisions into action. Explore tailored corporate education informed by our AI research and Vanguard Leadership work.
Ideas from the COTRUGLI community
Articles & Insights
Explore our latest perspectives on business, AI and leadership.
Chasing Jarvis: A Chronological Guide to AI Agents
Explore eight works by Dr. Tali Režun on AI agents and context engineering, ordered by original publication date, with links to the Chasing Jarvis series and related reading.
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Trust as a virtue in NEO era
It is hard to explain — not only to dummies — why I believe trust will be one of the most important virtues in the NEO era. Because…
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Saturday Meditation on Wellbeing
Imagine you reached the top of Maslow's pyramid. Now imagine you kept climbing. Not in a straight line. The path included reversals, losses, reinventions, some bruises to the…
Read article →A community of 3,000 MBA alumni
People who know your business context.
Explore the experiences of managers, founders and executives across industries. Start with a field you recognise, then discover the people and decisions behind their MBA journeys.
Pharma & healthcare
Meet alumni whose work connects business leadership with healthcare, pharmaceutical organisations and their teams.
Explore pharma & healthcare stories →IT & telecommunications
Explore how people from technology and telecommunications describe their development as business leaders.
Explore technology stories →Find your own perspective
Search interviews by industry, person, company or role. Read the original conversations and find what resonates with your next step.
Find people from your industry →The COTRUGLI experience
Stay connected. Keep moving forward.
Discover our community gatherings, current learning and what comes next.
Past event
5–7 December 2025
COTRUGLI DayZ
The Vanguard Leaders Forum brought together alumni perspectives, leadership learning and community. Explore the original programme of the 2025 edition.
View the 2025 programmeIn progress
Fall 2026 · Professor Dan Ye
AI Investing Lab
Explore emerging technologies, research with AI and test your judgment through a simulated investment portfolio. Discover the Lab and its learning resources.
Explore AI Investing LabOpen enrolment
27–29 November 2026 · Zagreb–Buzin
Chasing Jarvis
Take your interest in AI agents into the next stage of learning. Join the Chasing Jarvis module in Zagreb–Buzin and enquire about participation.
Explore the moduleExplore the reading guideVanguard Leadership × AI
What would you decide?
Three situations. No easy answer. Explore a leadership dilemma, submit your decision and compare it with a recorded TRU perspective. Five submissions daily per participant.
ARENA-D03 · Leadership dilemma
The Two A.M. Prompt
You are chief of staff to the CEO of a software company, 400 people.
ARENA-D04 · Leadership dilemma
Approvals on Autopilot
You are the COO of a construction-services group, 1,800 people.
ARENA-D09 · Leadership dilemma
The Founder Who Is Still the System
You founded a professional-services firm twenty years ago; it has 300 people.
Your next decision
Find a learning path that fits your priorities.
What would you like to work on next? Explore a starting point, read relevant alumni experiences and discuss the fit with our team.
People behind the learning
Bring your business questions into the classroom.
Meet our faculty, team and laboratories, and explore the perspectives they bring to business, AI and leadership. Connect what you learn with the decisions, teams and organisations you work with.
AI · leadership · research
Ideas for the decisions ahead.
AI for business leaders
Start with the business questions: where AI can help, what it changes and what leaders need to understand.
Explore AI and leadership →Chasing Jarvis
Follow a chronological guide to AI agents and the ideas behind their development.
Follow the series →Vanguard Leadership
Read the opening chapters and explore leadership dilemmas in an era of ambiguity and change.
Read and explore →
MBA · LEADERSHIP · AI · RESEARCH
More than a business school
COTRUGLI connects business education with leadership research, applied artificial intelligence and technology. Our Executive MBA and Chief Executive MBA programs are AMBA-accredited. Vanguard MBA brings together leadership, AI and frontier technology.
Explore our wider ecosystem: Vanguard MBA, COTRUGLI Tech, HashNET, COTRUGLI FOND, COTRUGLI.si, COlab, the International Leadership Journal and PoslovniPuls. HashNET also connects this ecosystem to AI and Gaming EDIH as a project partner.
Social innovation. Connecting knowledge, people and partnerships to address societal challenges. Explore our social innovation work.
International Leadership Journal. Explore leadership research and perspectives that connect academic inquiry with the practice of leading. Read the journal.
The ideas behind our name. Explore Benedetto Cotrugli’s The Art of Trade, read selected books and support social entrepreneurship through COTRUGLI FOND. Explore The Art of Trade.
Discover how our ecosystem connects