MTM Classes & Skills

How you'll practice it — Two studio sprints in which career-aligned teams design, build, and demo working AI prototypes with lean PRDs. Plus a ten-week prompt-crafting notebook, a vetted tool review delivered as a lightning talk, and a forensic post-mortem on a real AI failure of your own. Guests from OpenAI, McKinsey, Procore, Hearst, and Glowforge.

How you'll practice it — A group portfolio project on a real Kaggle dataset, run through the full CRISP-DM cycle across eight milestones from business understanding to deployment and data story. It is built deliberately as a portfolio piece to show employers.

How you'll practice it — A team technology initiative proposing a new venture for an established firm, delivered as an eight-page strategy memo and a ten-minute pitch to simulated senior leadership with live Q&A. Cases include Netflix, Spotify, Lego, Abgenix, and OpenAI.

How you'll practice it — "Turn Your Chairs" — a live executive session where you are called on without warning to diagnose a pressing strategic problem as a member of the leadership team, with no notes, slides, or devices. Guest speakers include the CEO of Etsy and leaders from Asana and Capital Group.

How you'll practice it — A term-long team project building a digital innovation strategy for an industry of your choosing, with a milestone every week, closing with a live innovation simulation and a group reflection on the decisions you made under pressure.

How you'll practice it — An idea-generation exercise and recorded elevator pitch, then a full venture analysis group project. Cases run from used-furniture marketplaces and folding bikes to air taxis, AI-native competitors, and AI business models.

How you'll practice it — You'll write and debrief a team charter, run a change simulation, work through a team transition exercise, and complete validated self-assessments on conflict style, cultural intelligence, and team-player profile — closing with a final team project.

How you'll practice it — Standing pods where every student rotates into the facilitator's seat, recorded impromptu executive speaking, a conflict dojo, an executive decision brief, and a final team pitch answered under live executive questioning.

How you'll practice it — Seven role-play negotiations, a recorded negotiation you review with peer feedback, and an AI challenge building a chatbot that negotiates with customers considering cancellation. Top marks require a real negotiation conducted outside class.

How you'll practice it — A quarter-long capstone building a complete digital marketing plan for a brand you choose, developed through five scaffolded deliverables and presented in the final week to industry judges.

How you'll practice it — A structured listening tour of industry conversations logged across five journal entries, the fall job and internship fair with a written debrief, and a professional headshot taken in week one.