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A year and a half ago, Hannah Hoffmaster was using AI to look up high-protein snacks. Today she’s running multi-agent systems she built herself, with no prior coding background. Bridging the gap between those two points was the Foster School of Business’s Masters of Science in Information Systems, or MSIS program, and few specific classes.
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Nathan Fitzgerald spent his 20s as a lobbyist, then pivoted into marketing. In mid-2024, budget cuts ended that job. He looked at the market and made a bet: AI was about to become table stakes, and he needed hard technical skills to stay relevant. That bet brought him to Foster’s MSIS program — and to a way of working with AI that’s worth stealing regardless of your backgroun...
Archit Gupta went from never having written a line of code to building AI tools that grade hundreds of student cases and a Socratic AI tutor for a graduate class — in one year.
Archit is graduated from Foster’s MSBA (Master of Science in Business Analytics) in Ju...
First-year Foster MBA (Class of ’27) Tejash Bagri explains how he turned a stalled application into an interview by building a go-to-market prototype before reaching out — and what that says about standing out when every candidate has the same AI tools. A practi...
Ahmad Ghabboun built a Demo Day–winning AI product during his MSIS program — after arriving with no plans to work in AI at all. He breaks down how his mindset shifted, how his design background made him a stronger prompter, and how to build AI fluency that actually holds up in...