COTRUGLI · More than a business school
AI for Business Leaders
and Entrepreneurs
Understand AI. Put it to work. Lead the change.
Explore business applications, AI agents and learning pathways that connect technology with leadership.
What business leaders need to understand about AI
Find a useful business application
Identify work where AI could help: preparing research, analysing information, supporting customers or developing a product prototype. Define the problem and the result you want before choosing a tool.
Work with AI agents
AI agents can combine models with tools to carry out tasks. Leaders need to understand the instructions, information and access an agent needs, and where human review belongs in the workflow.
Evaluate business value
Compare a small pilot with the way the work is done today. Assess output quality, time, cost and the effort required to check and correct results. A convincing demonstration is a starting point for evaluation.
Lead the change
Clarify who owns the process, who reviews the output and what decisions remain with people. Give teams a shared way to learn, report problems and improve how they work with AI.
Vanguard Leadership: leadership in the NEO era
Vanguard Leadership invites you to examine these tensions, question your assumptions and take responsibility for the choices you make.
Explore a leadership dilemma with TRU, drawing on Vanguard Leadership work and showing the sources behind its response.
Chasing Jarvis: from understanding AI to working with agents
Dr. Tali Režun’s Chasing Jarvis series and related writing explore language models, coding agents and context engineering: the work of giving AI the information and instructions it needs for a task.
Our chronological reading guide follows these ideas from understanding the technology to building with agents. It includes the author’s experience, a research case study on non-programmers developing software, and links to the original works.
Read the Chasing Jarvis guide and original sources →
Original works by Dr. Tali Režun, Vice Dean for Frontier Technologies at COTRUGLI. The guide distinguishes the named series from related reading.
Connect AI learning with your leadership development
Your programme choice depends on your experience, goals and preferred way of studying. Explore the full curriculum and discuss your AI learning priorities with the programme team.
Executive MBA
Explore leadership, strategic management, finance, entrepreneurship and digital transformation in COTRUGLI’s Executive MBA. The programme combines study with professional work through a hybrid format and weekend modules.
Vanguard MBA
Visit the Vanguard MBA website to explore its curriculum, programme format and application process. Contact the Vanguard team to discuss how the programme fits your goals.
Bring a real business question
For example, an entrepreneur exploring a new service might use AI to organise existing customer feedback and prepare a prototype. A manager might test whether AI helps a team produce more consistent first drafts of routine reports.
These are starting points for a pilot. Write down:
- The business problem and the people who experience it.
- The information the AI will need and what it may access.
- The result you will compare with your current process.
- The person responsible for reviewing the output and deciding the next step.
Questions about AI and business education
Do I need to be a programmer to start learning about AI?
You can begin with business applications, model capabilities and evaluating outputs without writing code. Technical support and specialist expertise become important as a project grows in complexity. Check the prerequisites of any specific programme with its admissions team.
Where should I start reading about AI agents?
Start with the introductory language-model reading in the Chasing Jarvis guide, then follow the sequence into coding agents and context engineering. Each entry links to the author’s original work.
How do I choose a programme?
Use the programme comparison to review the available routes. Then consult the programme page for curriculum, delivery, admissions requirements and the appropriate application process.