Building the Future of Finance with Claude — Columbia Executive Education


Date
Mar 17, 2026
Event
Executive Education Program at Columbia Business School
Location
Columbia Business School

Overview

Invited guest lecture for The Business of AI: Shaping the Future of Business with Generative AI, Columbia’s top-ranked executive education program led by Prof. Moran Cerf. The audience is senior executives (VPs, CEOs, board members) attending a week-long intensive on AI strategy and implementation.

Topics Covered

  • Claude in Excel & PowerPoint — live demos of financial modeling and pitch deck creation
  • Claude Code — how the #1 developer tool is reshaping engineering workflows and org design
  • Claude Cowork — ambient AI that integrates across desktop applications
  • Anthropic Economic Index — data-driven measurement of AI’s real economic impact
  • From RAG to Context Engineering — why retrieval-augmented generation is outdated, and what agentic memory means for enterprise AI
  • System-Level Thinking — AI-native leaders’ differentiator in principle-driven AI design