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AI-native business education designed to sharpen how you think, decide, and lead.
Develop the range to lead beyond your function and influence the decisions that matter most. From strategy and growth to talent and capital, strengthen the capabilities that earn leaders greater trust and scope.
Embed AI into how you think, decide, and operate every day. You'll leave running your data, your reporting, and your operations on agents and automations you built yourself, taught by the people building the AI.
Meet executives averaging 14+ years of experience, from 25+ industries and 30+ countries. Get introduced to your next co-founder, hire, or board member.
Personalized AI-tutor shapes the curriculum, feedback, and pace around where you are now and where you want to lead next.
Mike McGregor
AI Content Manager
I've learned more in 25 minutes than a year at University. This programme is wild haha. If Masterclass Executive existed 20 years ago, as an alternative to college, I can only imagine how successful I'd be today. The Masterclass Executive programme is truly transformative. I'd recommend it to everyone, especially those who feel that the education they have received to date, just hasn't resonated - Masterclass Executive stays in your mind, and it is 100% usable, enabling you to find that new dream job, or shine in your current one.
Bruna Talarico
Narrative & Content Strategist
Over 29,000 people applied and 705 were accepted. Participants average sixteen years of professional experience across 55 countries and 495 organizations. In late September, just days after my birthday, we will meet at the Chicago Booth campus to celebrate our learning journey. Couldn't have thought of a better birthday present to myself!
Carmen Love
Executive Director
I’ve spent 25 years working across industries, continents, and sectors. Marine operations. Rail. Government. Health care. Indigenous housing. Post-secondary. Capital infrastructure. AI consulting. I have seen a lot. And I can say with full conviction: this is the most excited I have ever been about anything in my professional life.
Summer Martin
Founder & Producer
I started the Strategy & Operations course as well. I am just under halfway through this one. I love you're engaged with the AI bot, I also find this helpful. My approach for this learning is to take one course at a time, experiment and soak it up. I'm feeling buyer's remorse for my graduate business degree.
Ivo Cooper
Founder
MasterClass Executive isn't theoretical — it's the first program where I applied the same frameworks to two completely different businesses in the same week. STP segmentation and competitive landscape mapping reshaped how I'm building out group dining partnerships at M Grill, while the exact same positioning discovery process sharpened my outreach strategy at Cooper Private Cellars. Having Booth and OpenAI behind the curriculum means it's rigorous enough to actually change decisions, not just generate slides.
Teodora Szasz
Senior Data Scientist
I've spent a decade in computational and clinical science, building AI models for social sciences, healthcare, archeology. What I've never been formally taught is the business side. That's exactly the gap I'm here to close, alongside 704 people who go as deep on their craft as I go on mine.
Brandon Marsh
Senior Manager
The cohort spans industries, functions, countries, and career stages. Despite all that variation, I keep noticing the same thing: people are approaching the program with real earnestness and authenticity. I feel fortunate to be learning among them.
Karishma Chadha
Customer Success Manager
I'm currently enrolled in an MBA program. And I just found out I got into the founding cohort of MasterClass Executive. I'm genuinely excited about both, for different reasons. But I'll be honest about what made me apply: the AI labs. The program is built around 10 hands-on AI labs; you ship real work, dissecting work other people did a decade ago.
Samantha Frida
Strategic Account Manager
It's amazing to be in a room full of such diverse executives. What's grabbing me most is that the conversations are real. No performance, no posturing. It feels like everyone's actually there to learn and know their own blind spots. So far it feels like a genuinely safe space to think out loud, disagree, and be wrong in front of other people.
Subramanian Kalpathi
Global Lead, Leadership Development
Week 2 of MasterClass Executive: Done! One thing that's becoming increasingly clear is that this program isn't just teaching frameworks, but challenging the assumptions behind them.
Learn From The Companies Shaping AI
Learn a five-step workflow for trustworthy AI-driven business insights (explore, frame, analyze, verify, visualize) then apply it end to end.
You’ll generate the visuals, add a voiceover, score it with music, and leave with a ready-to-share asset.
You’ll create golden examples, turn them into an evaluation rubric, and iterate on a real agent.
Turn plan, actual, and forecast data into a governed finance workflow.
We're continuously updating AI Labs to keep pace with the evolving AI landscape. AI Lab topics and instructors may change.
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Entrepreneur and investor building companies across tech, media, and healthcare
CEO and Co-Founder, Gamma
Former CEO of PepsiCo and Fortune 50 global business leader
Co-Founder, ElevenLabs
Founder of Bridgewater Associates and author of Principles
Nobel Prize–winning economist and longtime New York Times columnist
Chairman of VaynerX and CEO of VaynerMedia
Stanford management science professor and author of The No Asshole Rule
Former President, Cloud Applications, Google. Former GM, Ads, Google
Entrepreneur and performance strategist to Fortune 500 leaders
Former Global CEO of Chanel and board director at global consumer brands
Oxford economist and author
Nobel Prize–winning economist and UChicago Booth professor; pioneer of modern finance
Nobel Prize–winning economist and UChicago Booth professor; pioneer of modern banking theory
Former CEO of TikTok and architect of Disney+
Global economist, board director, bestselling author, and Member, House of Lords
Dean of UChicago Booth and chief global strategist at UChicago; accounting scholar
Emmy-nominated creator of Insecure and founder of HOORAE
UCLA marketing professor and researcher on long-term decision-making
UChicago Booth professor of entrepreneurship and finance; leading scholar in private equity
UChicago Booth professor and global authority on banking and monetary policy; advisor to the Fed and Bank of England
Stanford GSB professor and expert in negotiation and influence
UChicago Booth professor and author of Get It Done; expert on human motivation and behavior
UChicago Booth professor, author of A Little More Social and Mindwise, and social psychologist studying human insight
Founder of Box of Crayons and author of The Coaching Habit
Turing Award–winning mathematician in high-performance computing
UChicago Booth professor and researcher in pricing, consumer behavior, and marketing strategy
UChicago Booth professor pioneering AI and machine learning in consumer and business analytics
UChicago Booth professor of behavioral science, economics, and applied AI; coauthored a book with Nobel Prize–winning economist Richard Thaler
Curriculum and cohort offerings are subject to change. While it will be materially similar to those described, we reserve the right to modify content, structure, format, features, and delivery prior to launch.
Average Experience
14+ Years
Industries Represented
25+
Countries Represented
30+
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Log InAdvance your career with a business program 1 designed for the AI era.
Traditional Programs
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Fixed curriculum
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MasterClass Executive
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12 weeks self-paced
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Modernized skillset
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1 The MasterClass Executive Program does not confer academic credit, a degree, or professional licensure, and is not an accredited academic program. Participants who complete the program will receive a certificate of completion.
2 Payable in installments
Traditional Programs
Higher tuition
Extended commitment
Full-time
Fixed curriculum
One-size-fits-all
MasterClass Executive
Advance your career with a business program 1 designed for the AI era.
Tuition shown at checkout 2
12 weeks self-paced
On-demand
Modernized skillset
Personalized experience
1 The MasterClass Executive Program does not confer academic credit, a degree, or professional licensure, and is not an accredited academic program. Participants who complete the program will receive a certificate of completion.
2 Payable in installments
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The final application deadline for the second cohort is October 1, 2026 at 11:59 PM Pacific Time. We encourage candidates to apply early, as admissions decisions are made in waves and seats are limited. Cohort start dates and application deadlines are subject to change, but any changes will be reflected on this page.
