Rice Business · Fall 2026
MGMT 803
Gen AI for Business
led by Kerry Back
SeptemberSeptember 24–27
| When | Topics | Slides |
|---|
| 1 | Thursday morning | How LLMs work · models · computer use · how agents work · doing work with AI · prompting | |
| 2 | Thursday afternoon | AGENTS.md, SKILL.md · connectors and plugins · harnesses | Slides |
| 3 | Friday morning | Working with data | Slides |
| 4 | Saturday morning | Creating docs · creating apps | Slides |
| 5 | Saturday afternoon | Retrieval augmented generation · open source models | Slides |
| 6 | Sunday morning | Creating agents · managing security risks | Slides |
ReferenceAs time allows
| Reference deck | How a language model works | Slides |