The Global MBA AI & Innovation track
Take the reins in an era of accelerating digital transformation
The EDHEC Global MBA’s AI & Innovation track combes hands-on AI skills, ethical leadership, and global industry immersion to lead digital transformation across sectors. A forward-looking, immersive specialisation designed to prepare future business leaders for the challenges and opportunities of an AI-driven world. Led by Associate Professor Michelle Sisto, this track integrates technical competencies, strategic insight, and ethical leadership into a holistic learning journey.
Best practices for navigating digital strategy and innovation
Managing Innovation and Digital Transformation
Learn how to maintain business relevance, competitiveness, and productivity in an age defined by accelerating technologies, data evolution, and shifting consumer expectations. This course develops your ability to lead innovation and manage digital transformation with agility and strategic foresight. You'll gain tools for anticipating market disruptions, understanding the impact of AI, and aligning your company’s innovation roadmap with long-term business goals.
Design Thinking, AI, Business Transformation and Use Cases
This module offers hands-on exploration of how AI is transforming business strategy. You'll be introduced to Design Thinking practices from experts at IBM, and apply them during an immersive workshop. Together with experts, you’ll focus on creating AI-powered assistants and gain real-world exposure to business automation, programming with Python, and the ethical dimensions of AI. This module bridges the technical and strategic, giving you the mindset and tools to lead responsible AI integration.
GMBA Specialisation: AI & Innovation track
Any AI transformation requires effective change management and people management skills... we want students to get their hands dirty and understand what it takes to create a minimal viable product for AI integration.
Michelle Sisto
Associate Dean, EDHEC AI Centre
A track optimised for future leaders in innovation and digital transformation
Over one intensive month, participants master the art of managing change and complexity through a curriculum rooted in AI thinking. This includes developing digital literacy, critical and creative thinking, algorithmic reasoning, strategic foresight, and ethical sensitivity.
You’ll get hands-on experience, building an AI solution via modules like:
- Design thinking—creating solutions that matter
- Building AI assistants/agents
- Ethical questions in AI
These modules prepare you to turn digital and AI challenges into strategic opportunities with purpose and impact.
The AI & Innovation track complements the EDHEC Global MBA’s core curriculum, electives, and ESG focus—offering a uniquely immersive, future-ready experience.
During the EDHEC MBA track in AI & Innovation, you will:
- Apply Design Thinking to create AI-powered business solutions
- Explore innovations in AI, robotics, business automation, and ethical AI
- Engage in a real-life business case focused on AI strategy
- Develop a digital innovation mindset.
- Explore digital disruption and how big data is used to achieve innovation.
- Draw inspiration from the way major players have adapted to the digital era.
The AI & Innovation track within the Global MBA programme
Download the brochure for more information on the AI & Innovation track and the complete Global MBA programme.
A learning expedition with the world’s disruptors and disrupted
Participate in a one-week international learning expedition to a major innovation hub. You’ll explore the future of digital disruption from both disruptors and incumbents. Meet with digital leaders including Salesforce, Artefact, , Amazon, , and others as they share how they’ve transformed operations, marketing, and consumer engagement using big data and AI. Gain insights into how industries from retail and luxury to fintech and public health are adapting their business models in a fast-evolving landscape.
These immersive visits help you understand how organisations redesign internal structures, adopt breakthrough technologies, and remain competitive in a rapidly shifting environment.
The track was very industry-focused. EDHEC didn’t make it too theoretical or academic, it was very much a hands-on approach. They took us to the real core of innovation in Paris. This meant that when I started working, I’d already seen and gained an understanding of what was happening in the market.
Pranjali Apurva
EDHEC Global MBA 2019, Senior Business Process Manager, Zalando, Berlin
Collaborations for accelerating your future in digital strategy and innovation
EDHEC’s tight collaboration with tech leaders stems from a long-standing relationship between the academic and business worlds and opens up exciting prospects for Global MBA participants.
EDHEC’s innovation ecosystem also includes access to the EDHEC Entrepreneurs incubator and partnerships with Station F, the world’s largest startup campus, hosting over 1,000 startups and 150 venture capital funds. These collaborations reinforce your exposure to both corporate and entrepreneurial approaches to innovation and digital strategy.
FAQ
Digital innovation is the adoption and implementation of modern digital technologies for solving business problems. It is used to streamline processes, deliver new business models, and optimise customer experiences. Focusing on digital innovation during an MBA programme enables you to master digital innovation management and develop strategies for transforming challenges into strategic opportunities. The Digital Innovation track of the Global MBA at EDHEC Business School has been co-created with the multinational tech giant, IBM. It teaches participants how to maintain business relevance, competitiveness, and productivity in an age defined by evolving technology and data.
Digital transformation is the reimagining or modification of business processes in the digital age. Adopting a digital transformation mindset as a manager allows for business models, company culture, and customer experience to meet changing market and business requirements. Focusing on digital transformation and digital innovation during an MBA programme helps participants develop strategies for transforming challenges into strategic and innovative opportunities. The Digital Innovation track of the Global MBA at EDHEC Business School teaches change-management techniques that are essential to the success of digital transformation initiatives so that managers can ensure agility and reactivity to already identified changes in markets and demands. The programme has been co-created with the multinational tech giant, IBM.
Well-implemented digital innovation strategies result in increased productivity and profits, streamlined data collection, improved customer experience, agility, and competitiveness. Digital innovation is important for delivering efficient solutions to market demands and changes, and should always be accompanied by effective change management. Examples of digital innovation are supply chain digital twins, and processes for optimizing remote work and virtual collaboration.
The AI & Innovation track of the Global MBA at EDHEC Business School delves into the impacts of digital innovation and teaches participants how to maintain business relevance, competitiveness, and productivity in an age defined by evolving technology and data. The programme has been co-created with the multinational tech giant, IBM.
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