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FOR STUDENTS, DEANS & PROGRAMME DIRECTORS

Every student learns at a different speed.

Now a programme can too.

Business, finance and innovation, taught for the era of AI.

Serious simulations, decision games and applied modules where students run a venture under real pressure and the theory arrives at the moment they need it. Undergraduate, graduate and executive cohorts.

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WHAT INSTITUTIONS ASK FOR

Three problems, and they are all the same problem.

The field moves faster than the syllabus. Everything below follows from that.

Curriculum that stays current

Material that reflects how the work is actually done this year — not how it was done when the module was written.

Learning that adapts to the student

Mixed cohorts are the norm. The programme should meet a student with no numbers background and one with a decade of it, in the same room.

Assessment that still means something

When a model can produce the answer, the assessment has to test understanding rather than output.

DEMONSTRATION

Some things have to be shown, not explained.

A physics lecturer drops a ball and a feather rather than describing gravity. This is the same move, for business. Set the ticket price for a small arts festival and watch the year play out.

ARTS FESTIVAL — YEAR ONE · SIMPLIFIED CLASSROOM MODEL

Set the ticket price. Keep it solvent.

Opening grant SAR 300,000 · fixed costs SAR 620,000 per year · SAR 22 cost per attendee · attendance falls as price rises.

ZERO CASH JAN DEC
80SAR
Attendance
Ticket revenue
Year-end cash
Lowest point
VERDICT

The lesson is the shape of the curve, not the number. Priced too low, the festival sells out and still fails, because every additional attendee carries a cost. Priced too high, attendance collapses. Between the two, where the year closes profitable, the curve still falls below the line around month seven — a solvent organisation without the cash to reach its own season. Working capital becomes something the student has run into, rather than something they have been told.

EXAMPLE MODULE — CORPORATE FINANCE

Fourteen weeks, eight learning outcomes, one model.

Each team builds a single financial model from week one and defends it in week fourteen. Every week adds a layer; nothing is discarded.

STRUCTURE

The module map

The full fourteen-week structure, with every week mapped to the learning outcomes it serves. Nothing is taught that isn't carrying an outcome.

CLASSROOM MECHANIC

The Relay

Accounting hands raw transactions to analysis. Analysis hands an interpretation to the board. The board makes one decision — then the decision is checked against the original data to find where meaning was lost in the handoff.

ASSESSMENT DESIGN

A defence, not an exam

Week fourteen is an oral defence to a mock investment committee. A model can be produced with AI. It cannot be defended in a room that asks follow-up questions.

MIXED COHORTS

Built for uneven starting points

Designed so a student with no numbers background and one with a decade of it both leave having built something they can explain.

ENGAGEMENTS

Where I fit in your programme.

01

Deliver a module

Business, finance or innovation, taught to cohorts without a technical background.

  • Undergraduate, graduate and executive
  • Semester or intensive
  • In person or hybrid
02

Design the curriculum

You hold the outcomes and the credits. I build the sequence, the materials and the assessment against them — and hand it over so someone else can run it.

  • Mapped week by week to your outcomes
  • Built for clarity, engagement and fairness
  • Train-the-trainer handover
03

Run a simulation

A single high-pressure session where teams run a venture under shocks. Drops into an existing module without rebuilding it.

  • Half-day or full-day
  • Works on a spreadsheet and a whiteboard
  • Structured debrief included
04

Rebuild assessment

Rework how a programme measures understanding now that output can be generated. Defences, live builds, and work that has to be explained.

  • Assessment audit
  • Replacement instruments
  • Marking criteria and rubrics
BACKGROUND
PHD — INNOVATION MANAGEMENT EXECUTIVE MBA — ESSEC PARIS PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS GRADUATE & EXECUTIVE TEACHING
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