Miao Liu
Boston College — Carroll School of Management

AI Applications in Business:
Insights from Corporate Data

Undergraduate & MBA · Instructor: Miao Liu

Carroll School of Management
Undergraduate & MBA
2025 – present
1

Machine Learning Unit

Introduces the core supervised learning framework — prediction, overfitting, regularization, decision trees, ensemble methods, neural networks and deep learning. Students apply these tools to real business datasets, building intuition for when and why ML outperforms traditional statistical approaches in accounting and finance contexts.

2

Large Language Models Unit

Covers the transformer architecture, attention mechanisms, and the emergence of large language models. Students learn to apply LLMs to corporate text data — earnings calls, analyst reports, and social media — exploring both the capabilities and limitations of AI-generated language in business and financial contexts.

Business Case Studies

Case studies coming soon.

3

Valuation Unit

Grounds students in the financial accounting and valuation foundations using LLMs as a co-pilot.

Vibe Coding Unit

An emerging unit on AI-assisted programming — using large language models as coding collaborators to build, prototype, and analyze business applications without traditional software engineering expertise.

Materials coming soon.