AI for MBAs: The Essential Guide for Leaders Building AI-Driven Enterprise  serves as a foundational textbook for understanding how artificial intelligence can be successfully integrated within the realm of business. A tectonic shift has begun across the global economy. AI is restructuring how companies think, act, and win, and the leaders who understand this shift today will dominate the markets of tomorrow. Building upon hundreds of interviews with CEOs and founders at the forefront of the AI economy, this textbook offers a practice-oriented roadmap for the next generation of business leaders. It shows how to move beyond legacy strategy tools into the world of intelligent systems, agentic workflows, and AI-native business models. Across its 12 chapters, this book traces how AI is redefining operations, competition, and organizational design. It explains the new mechanics of work, the rise of autonomous decision loops, and the emerging playbooks that modern leaders use to scale faster and act with greater clarity. Looking ahead to the MBA classroom of 2050, it introduces the archetypes of the AI-enabled professional, namely the Centaurs, Cyborgs, and Artisans, and describes how human intelligence and machine intelligence will work together in the decades to come. This book is written for ambitious and forward-thinking MBA students and those who have graduated long ago and want more than theory. It is for readers who want to understand the tools, the models, and the mindset that will define leadership in an AI-driven world, and who intend to shape that world rather than be shaped by it.