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Managing with AI

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Leverage AI for real-world decision-making and performance.

Now Enrolling for Fall 2026

Managing with AI is a hands-on, non-credit program that teaches working professionals how to use AI as a practical tool for decision-making, productivity and team leadership. Instead of focusing on technical skills, the program shows how AI can be applied directly to everyday managerial work across functions.

Program Features
  • Starting Oct. 19, 2026
  • Four two-week modules
  • Eight hours of self-paced learning per module
  • Optional two hours of live online review sessions per module
  • Flexible format for working professionals

Who is a Good Fit for this Program?

If you are a working professional who would like to use AI as a practical tool to improve how you analyze, execute and lead without needing technical expertise, the Managing with AI program is for you. 

This program is a strong fit for:

  • Mid-level managers and functional leaders
    You lead teams, manage functions or own key processes and want to use AI to improve decision-making, productivity and performance.
  • Team leaders and project managers
    You coordinate people, timelines and deliverables and are looking for better ways to analyze information and move work forward faster.
  • Managers across business functions
     Whether you work in strategy, operations, marketing, finance, HR or supply chains, you want to understand how AI can enhance your day-to-day decisions and outcomes.
  • Professionals driving execution and improvement
     You are responsible for implementing initiatives, improving workflows and delivering results, and want to identify where AI can create real value.
  • Managers seeking practical AI fluency
    You’re not looking to become a data scientist, but you want to confidently use AI tools to support your work and lead effectively in an AI-enabled environment.

Modules and Capstone

Move from personal productivity to organizational impact. Discover how AI fits into modern workflows, data systems and team collaboration. You’ll learn how to improve information quality, redesign processes and manage work in digitally enabled environments where AI plays a central role.

Your key takeaways:

  • A clear understanding of how AI integrates into team workflows and systems
  • Tools to improve data use and decision quality
  • A framework for redesigning work processes with AI in mind
  • Practical approaches for managing AI-enabled teams and coordination

Navigate complexity across the supply chain with greater clarity and precision. Explore how AI can support sourcing, logistics, inventory and coordination decisions. You’ll learn to analyze tradeoffs, model scenarios and improve responsiveness in increasingly dynamic supply networks.

Your key takeaways:

  • A structured approach to supply chain decision-making using AI
  • Tools to analyze tradeoffs across sourcing, inventory and logistics
  • The ability to model disruptions and evaluate alternative actions
  • Clear ways to communicate supply chain insights and recommendations

Lead people effectively in an AI-enabled workplace. Gain insights into how AI is reshaping hiring, talent development and team performance. You’ll learn how to use AI responsibly in people-related decisions while balancing efficiency with judgment, fairness and human insight.

Your key takeaways:

  • Practical ways to use AI in hiring, performance and development
  • A framework for responsible and fair use of AI in people decisions
  • Tools to improve team support, learning and productivity
  • Greater confidence in managing people in an AI-enabled environment

Think more strategically with AI as your analytical edge. Acquire the skills to help you evaluate industries and opportunities using AI-powered tools. You’ll learn how to identify where AI creates real value and how to apply strategic thinking in rapidly evolving business environments.

Your key takeaways:

  • A framework for analyzing industries and competitors with AI
  • The ability to identify high-value AI opportunities strategically
  • Tools to support faster, more informed strategic thinking
  • Stronger judgment in interpreting and applying AI-generated insights
  • You will create an integrative project bringing content together with a two-page written deliverable due within two weeks of program completion.

Applied Management Project

Conclude with an applied management project to apply the concepts, frameworks and AI tools learned throughout the program to a managerial challenge from your organization. Serving as the program’s culminating assignment, you'll integrate what you've learned across the four modules into a practical managerial recommendation accompanied with an implementation plan.

Program Outcomes

By the end of this program, you'll be able to: 

  • Use AI as a practical managerial tool to analyze information, generate insights and support everyday decisions
  • Make better, faster decisions by combining AI outputs with strong managerial judgment
  • Identify high-impact opportunities for AI within your role, team or business unit
  • Improve productivity and execution across core workflows and day-to-day operations
  • Redesign processes and ways of working to take advantage of AI-enabled tools
  • Lead with confidence in AI-enabled environments, without needing technical expertise

Cost

A high-impact, career-ready investment in practical AI for today’s managers.

$2,000
Full program cost for all four modules.

For UB department-funded discount pricing or corporate volume discounts, contact mgt-epe@buffalo.edu.