MGMT 803
Rice Business  ·  Fall 2026

MGMT 803

Gen AI for Business
led by Kerry Back
Part 1
Intro to models and agents
How LLMs work · models and performance · how agents work · computer useSlidesHTMLPDF
Part 2
Working with AI
Doing work with AI · prompting tips · permissionsSlidesHTMLPDF
Part 3
Standing instructions and connectors
CLAUDE.md · how it remembers you · SKILL.md · MCP connectors · pluginsSlidesHTMLPDF
Part 4
Building agents
How software works · API calls · build a chatbot · build an agentSlidesHTMLPDF
Part 5
Deploying agents
Academic Studio · running apps and agents locally · Git and GitHub · deploying apps and agentsSlidesHTMLPDF
Part 6
Documents and local models
Retrieval augmented generation · Gemini Notebook · running models locallySlidesHTMLPDF
Part 7
Agent security
Multi-agent architectures · security risks · mitigating risksSlidesHTMLPDF
Part 8
Neural networks
Inside a neural network · training · fine-tuning and LoRASlidesHTMLPDF

Part 2 data: northwind.zip · workover.md

Part 6 data: orders.csv · order_details.csv

Part 8 notebook: fine-tuning-gemma.ipynb