BUS 143 — AI-Powered Go-to-Market Strategies for Business Growth
Quarter: Spring
Instructor(s): Holly Roland
Date(s): Apr 6—Jun 1
Class Recording Available: No
Class Meeting Day: Mondays
Grade Restriction: No letter grade
Class Meeting Time: 6:30—8:00 pm (PT)
Please Note: No class on May 25
Tuition: $570
Refund Deadline: Apr 8
Unit(s): 1
Enrollment Limit: 45
Status: Registration opens Feb 23, 8:30 am (PT)
Quarter: Spring
Day: Mondays
Duration: 8 weeks
Time: 6:30—8:00 pm (PT)
Date(s): Apr 6—Jun 1
Unit(s): 1
Tuition: $570
Refund Deadline: Apr 8
Instructor(s): Holly Roland
Grade Restriction: No letter grade
Enrollment Limit: 45
Recording Available: No
Status: Registration opens Feb 23, 8:30 am (PT)
Please Note: No class on May 25
Artificial intelligence is reshaping how organizations understand customers, position offerings, and execute go-to-market (GTM) activities across product development, marketing, sales, and customer engagement. But turning AI capabilities into practical business value requires more than new tools. It requires clear frameworks, realistic use cases, and hands-on experience.
In this course, students learn how to use AI tools to support real GTM work such as defining ideal customers, analyzing competitors, refining messaging, extracting customer insights, and evaluating digital presence for AI-driven search and discovery.
Through guided demonstrations and browser-based exercises, students will work with large language models, custom GPTs, AI agents, and no-code analytics tools to create practical artifacts they can use in their current role or showcase to employers. Designed for business professionals in marketing, sales, product, operations, and early-career roles, this course requires no prior AI or coding experience. By the end, students will have a clear playbook for applying AI in go-to-market contexts across industries, along with tangible examples of their work.
This course relies on the use of an external, third-party tool that is not managed or supported by Stanford. Students must purchase their own tool subscriptions and can expect to spend $25-$100 per month. Please see the course syllabus for more details.
HOLLY ROLAND
Founder and CEO, RebelGTM
Holly Roland is a go-to-market strategist and AI marketing expert with more than 20 years of experience at SAP, Oracle, and high-growth SaaS firms. She’s driven over one billion dollars in revenue by bridging technical innovation with business impact. She advises AI and SaaS companies on scaling revenue and optimizing demand generation with AI analytics. Roland is also an advisor to private equity-backed companies and an advocate for women in leadership and STEM mentorship programs.
Textbooks for this course:
There are no required textbooks; however, some fee-based online readings may be assigned.