Advanced Cases in Advisory Services

Advisory services increasingly focus on delivering measurable business value through innovative, technology-enabled solutions. As regulatory requirements grow more complex and data volumes expand, firms must identify ways to improve decision-making, reduce costs, and scale processes without compromising quality or integrity.
This course examines how emerging technologies—particularly automation, generative AI, and data analytics—can be deployed to meet these challenges. These tools are reshaping professional practice, offering new ways to design, test, and deliver solutions that would have been unthinkable a decade ago.
Students will adopt an innovation mindset, grounded in the realities of business constraints, and develop practical skills by designing, analyzing, and deploying intelligent automation tools. Whether building bots, evaluating AI-assisted workflows, or analyzing the feasibility of new technologies, students will gain experience with the kinds of problems—and possibilities—that define the next generation of advisory work.
I look forward to exploring these ideas with you, and to seeing what kinds of solutions you’ll create.
— Asher

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