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Reinventing the Organization with AI

Course Length

4 weeks

2–3 hours per week

Featuring faculty from:

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Harvard Online Certificate:

$595

Enroll by Oct 29, 2026

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Harvard Online Certificate:

$595

Enroll by Oct 29, 2026

Enroll Now

Turn AI Ambition Into Organizational Impact

Reinventing the Organization with AI equips leaders to move beyond experimentation and build the organizational conditions required to scale AI safely, strategically, and sustainably. This program focuses on the human and cultural frameworks needed to redesign people strategy, and operating models around AI.

Participants will explore how leading organizations create market advantage through AI while building advocacy, overcoming resistance, and accelerating adoption across the enterprise. With a practical, organization-first approach, the course helps leaders turn AI ambition into measurable impact while ensuring initiatives remain culturally integrated.

Self-Paced Cohorts

Fixed start and end dates • Learn at your own pace

Harvard Online

Certificates:

  • Individual Certificate
  • Certificate Program

Industries:

  • Health Care
  • Government
  • Education
  • Consumer Products
  • Financial Services
  • Technology
  • Learn from real case studies
  • Do it on your own time
  • Earn a certificate, add it to your resume
  • Be part of the Harvard Community
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Course Syllabus

AI transformation is as much a human challenge as a technical one. Through real-world case studies and practical exercises, this course explores how leaders can drive AI adoption by rethinking productivity, building organizational support, evolving talent strategies, and helping people adapt to changing roles.

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Faculty

Industry Experts

Your Instructor

Sharon Zhou, PhD

VP of Engineering and AI, AMD

Sharon Zhou is the Vice President of Engineering and AI at the computer processing and graphics chips company AMD. Before joining AMD, Sharon founded the AI startup Lamini AI, which helped organizations automate and scale their operations.

Your Instructor

Dustin Tingley

Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy with a joint appointment in the Harvard Kennedy School of Public Policy and Harvard Government Department

Dustin Tingley is a data scientist at Harvard University. He is the Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy with a joint appointment in the Harvard Kennedy School of Public Policy and Harvard Government Department. Professor Tingley is Deputy Vice Provost for Advances in Learning and helps to direct Harvard's education focused data science and technology team. He has helped a variety of organizations use the tools of data science and helped to develop machine learning algorithms and accompanying software for the social sciences. He has written on a variety of topics using data science techniques, including education, politics, and economics.

Industry Expert

Iraklis “Kli” Pappas

Vice President and Global Head of AI, Colgate-Palmolive

Iraklis “Kli” Pappas is the Vice President and Global Head of AI at the consumer-products company Colgate-Palmolive. There, he has worked to integrate AI throughout the organization and has helped make strategic choices about where the company should make AI investments.

Industry Expert

Alexander Vollert

Senior Advisor, AXA

Alexander Vollert is a senior advisor of the global insurance company AXA. AXA offers comprehensive insurance, including travel, commercial, and personal protection insurance, to over 65 countries in the world. Before he was a senior advisor, Alexander was the Chief Operating Officer for AXA. During his tenure, he was responsible for the tech, data, AI, and operation strategy of the group and helped lead AXA through its AI transformation.

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Past Participant Discounts

Learners who have enrolled in at least one qualifying Harvard Online program receive a 30% discount on this course. Select Past Participant Discounts are automatically applied to the Program Fee upon time of payment.

Learners who have earned a verified certificate for a HarvardX course hosted on the edX platform are eligible to receive a 30% discount on this course using a discount code. Discounts are not available after you've submitted payment, so if you think you are eligible for a discount on a registration, please check your email for a code or contact us.

Nonprofit, Government, Military, and Education Discounts

Eligibility is determined by a prospective learner’s email address, ending in .org, .gov, .mil, or .edu. Interested learners can apply below for the discount and, if eligible, will receive a promo code to enter when completing payment information to enroll in a Harvard Online program. Apply Now.

FAQs

We offer discounts to past participants of select Harvard Online courses, who can receive 30% off the program fee on their next qualifying Harvard Online course. We also offer discounts on select courses to learners who work in nonprofits, government, military, or education, or are U.S. veterans. Eligibility is typically based on a work email address ending in .org, .gov, .mil, or .edu.

You can find more information about current discounts and eligibility on our course policies and discounts page and in our full Harvard Online FAQs at harvardonline.harvard.edu/faq.

You are expected to complete all coursework in a thoughtful and timely way. This includes completing the modules and fully answering the questions in each module between the course start and end dates so that the cohort can move through the course at a similar pace and benefit from social learning opportunities. ⁠In addition to completing modules and assignments, you are expected to provide feedback on other learners’ reflections and contribute to discussions on the platform.

⁠You can set your own daily or weekly routine and adjust it as needed, but to receive your certificate you must complete all modules and assignments by the stated course end date. Learners who do not complete the course requirements will not receive a certificate and will not be eligible to retake the course. No letter grades are assigned for this course; your participation is evaluated on a complete or incomplete basis.

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There is no application required for this course. You can enroll directly through Harvard Online if you are at least 18 years old, proficient in English, and committed to learning and engaging with fellow participants throughout the program.

Upon successful completion of this program, you will receive a digital Certificate of Completion from Harvard Online. Our team reviews all participant coursework after the final deadline in your course, and, once eligibility is confirmed, your Certified Electronic Credential will be delivered to your email address.

Once you have earned your Certificate of Completion, you may list it on your resume as:

Harvard Online
Certificate in Reinventing the Organization with AI
[Cohort Start Month and Year]

On LinkedIn, add it under “Education” as:
School: Harvard Online
Dates Attended: [The year you participated in the program]
Degree: Other; Certificate in Reinventing the Organization with AI
Field of Study: [Leave blank]
Grade: Complete
Activities and Societies: [Leave blank]

For the program description on LinkedIn, you may use:
“Reinventing the Organization with AI explores how leaders can turn AI ambition into scalable, compliant, and culturally integrated organizational impact.”

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