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AI is changing how work gets done, how decisions are made and how organizations compete. WashU Olin helps professionals and businesses move from exploring what AI can do to determining where it can create meaningful value.

Whether you want to build AI capabilities across your workforce, prepare leaders to guide AI transformation, or apply new technology to a specific business challenge, Olin brings together faculty expertise, talent development, and real-world problem-solving to help you move forward.

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Build the AI Capabilities Your Business Needs

There is no single starting point for AI. Some professionals need the confidence to use it effectively in their day-to-day work. HR and L&D leaders are thinking about workforce readiness and talent. Functional leaders are looking for high-value applications within their teams. Senior executives need to make strategic decisions about investment, adoption, and change.

Olin Executive Education provides learning experiences designed for each stage — from foundational AI fluency to advanced applications, workforce strategy and enterprise transformation. Programs can help individuals and organizations identify opportunities, prioritize use cases, and develop practical roadmaps for responsible adoption.

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Executive Education is one way to engage with Olin’s AI expertise. Organizations can also tap into the faculty research, industry experience, and applied expertise behind that learning to explore broader business challenges and opportunities.

Learn From the AI Experts Shaping Its Future

Research expertise. Business perspective. Real-world application.

WashU Olin faculty aren't just studying how AI is changing business; they're helping shape how organizations use it — and they can help yours, too.

Faculty expertise and consulting span the areas where AI is having significant business impact — from operations and supply chain to finance, accounting, organizational behavior and analytics. Faculty like Dennis Zhang bring experience spanning academic research and industry collaboration, including work designing algorithms for companies such as Amazon and Alibaba.

These experts and others are working with organizations globally to apply their expertise in today’s business environments.

Operations, Supply Chain & Marketplace Analytics

Forecast demand, optimize pricing and supply chains with AI. Contact Dennis Zhang or Jacob Feldman.

Finance

Learn to apply AI to algorithmic trading, risk assessment, market forecasting, and predictive modeling. For more information, contact Guofu Zhou or Asaf Manela.

Accounting

Take advantage of AI as both an accounting research tool and subject of study, using it to analyze data faster. Contact Jeremy Bertomeu or Xiumin Martin.

Strategy, Organizational Behavior & the Future of Work

Explore how AI is reshaping strategy, job design, and talent development. Contact Lamar Pierce or Oren Reshef.

Business Analytics & Applied AI

Integrate AI with advanced analytics to help you transform complex data into smarter decisions. For more information, contact Salih Tutun or Liberty Capito.

Bring Olin Your Business Challenge

Sometimes the next step isn't another course. It's solving a problem.

Organizations can work with Olin faculty, research centers, and students in a consulting-style engagement to explore how AI, analytics, and emerging technologies can address real business challenges. Every project is custom designed to meet each client’s needs and can range from applied research and faculty collaboration to student consulting projects that allow organizations to pressure-test ideas and explore new approaches.

Olin's specialized research centers connect organizations with faculty expertise and applied research, while the Center for Experiential Learning engages students in hundreds of real-world business challenges each year.

See AI Solutions in Action

From Emerging Technology to Better Business Decisions

See how Olin works alongside organizations to explore new technologies, analyze complex challenges, and turn insight into action.

As Bayer Crop Science set out to implement AI supply chain management software, Olin’s Boeing Center for Supply Chain Innovation identified practices that would optimize that implementation. The project demonstrates that technology alone doesn't create value — the work also involves governance, process ownership, reliable data, aligned workflows, and adoption.

Read the Bayer Crop Science Case Study

In our group, we have a lot of AI projects running, but how do we step back and think more strategically about it? I think that’s what Olin brought to the table.

— Julie LaBonte, Global Data Strategy Commercial Lead, Bayer Crop Science
WashU Olin EMBA, 2002