Shaping the Market for Technology: Policy, Product, Purpose, and Profit

2 credits · GSB

Today, the boldest ventures and most transformative technologies are built in politically charged sectors where innovation and regulation collide-like AI, crypto, health tech, space, defense, and energy. Public policy is no longer a risk to manage; it's a terrain to master. Combining research and practice, this course offers a blueprint for investing in, building, and leading organizations that align public policy goals with your own. Through in-class simulations, recent research, and off-the-record conversations with prominent lawmakers, tech insiders and venture capitalists, students will learn how to think politically, act strategically, and lead organizations fit for the frontline of 2025's shifting tectonics. This is the course your competitors hope you don't take.