Courses

Designed from scratch

Courses I built

AI for LeadersUndergraduate · Tepper

Artificial Intelligence for Business Leaders

Where AI creates value in a business, where it does not, and how to explain the difference to the people paying for it.

course page AI MethodsMBA · Tepper

AI Methods for Social and Visual Data

Using AI on text, networks, and images, and knowing when the output is ready for a decision.

course page Tech TalentUndergraduate · Tepper / CMU Qatar

Managing and Assessing Tech Talent and Organizations

How to hire, develop, and evaluate technical people using evidence instead of instinct.

course page Math SkillsMS in Business Analytics · Tepper

MS in Business Analytics Math Skills Workshop

The math incoming MS in Business Analytics students need before the quantitative core begins.

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Taken over and rebuilt

Courses I took over and rebuilt

Data MiningMBA · Tepper

Data Mining

Applied machine learning techniques in Python: finding structure in messy business data, then deciding whether to trust it.

course page Data VizMBA · Tepper

Data Visualization

Charts and dashboards designed to change a decision.

course page Explore & VizMS in Business Analytics · Tepper

Data Exploration and Visualization

We spend half the time hands-on with applied tools and half learning to tell stories with data: chart design, dashboards, and visualization for machine learning.

course page Prob & StatsMS in Business Analytics · Tepper

Introduction to Probability and Statistics

Probability and inference taught twice over, in Excel and in Python, through business decisions.

course page ML in BusinessMS in Business Analytics · Tepper

Machine Learning for Business Applications

Taking a model out of the notebook and into a working business system on AWS.

course page ML FoundationsPublic Policy & Management · Heinz College

Machine Learning Foundations with Python

Machine learning in Python for students headed into policy and management work.

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For organizations

Executive and custom education

From 2012 to 2016 I co-directed executive and continuing education at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar and taught its open-enrollment programs: three-day courses for managers from government ministries, energy, banking, telecom, aviation, and media, with up to 114 people in the room. Participants came from organizations including Qatar Airways, Ooredoo, RasGas, Qatar Central Bank, the Qatar Investment Authority, Al Jazeera, and Vodafone Qatar. I still build programs for a single organization, most recently half-day workshops for Qatar's Civil Service Bureau in 2025. They all follow the same pattern: a live simulation first, then the research that explains what just happened, then a plan people take back to work.

• 114participants in a single three-day program
• 284participants across the three programs with full rosters
• 25organizations sent people, across ten sectors
• 4open-enrollment programs, plus custom workshops

Executive Education (open enrollment)CMU Qatar

Business Negotiation and Conflict Resolution

Three mornings of live negotiation simulations, each followed by a debrief and a short lecture

course page Executive Education (open enrollment)CMU Qatar

Decision Making in Groups and Organizations

Make a group decision under pressure, then find out what your process missed

course page Executive Education (open enrollment)CMU Qatar

Managing Groups and Teams

Team simulations, a global team case, and the research on why groups underperform

course page Executive Education (open enrollment)CMU Qatar

Dynamic Organizational Leadership

How organizations build leaders, and how leaders build teams that speak up

course page Custom executive educationCMU Qatar and Tepper

Custom Workshops and Programs

Workshops built for one organization's audience, from an energy company to a university's senior staff to a government bureau

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Earlier teaching

Organizational behavior at CMU Qatar, 2012 to 2016

My first appointment at Carnegie Mellon was as Assistant Teaching Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Qatar campus, where I also co-directed executive and continuing education. These are the undergraduate courses I taught there, each with its full schedule and slides.

Org BehaviorUndergraduate · CMU Qatar and Pittsburgh

Organizational Behavior

Motivation, teams, decisions, negotiation, leadership, and change, taught through business cases and simulations.

course page NegotiationUndergraduate · CMU Qatar

Negotiation and Conflict Resolution

A negotiation every week, a debrief every week, and a real negotiation of your own at the end.

course page CulturesUndergraduate · CMU Qatar and Pittsburgh

Managing Across Cultures

How culture shapes management, taught through cases from the Gulf, China, India, the Americas, Europe, and Africa.

course page ConsultingUndergraduate · CMU Qatar

Business Technology Consulting

How consultants think, how they interview, and how technology projects get built and managed.

course page Social MediaUndergraduate · CMU Qatar

Digital Marketing and Social Media Strategy

Search, social, and the digital marketing mix, taught through cases and real clients.

course page ResearchUndergraduate · CMU Qatar

Empirical Research Methods

Ask a question about people, design a survey, collect the data, and test it with regression.

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