Transform Your Organization Through Partnership and Innovation

The Roux Institute partners with organizations to solve pressing business challenges through custom learning, embedded talent, innovation programs, and AI solutions. Whether you’re looking to build workforce capabilities, increase operational efficiency, or drive strategic transformation, we bring Northeastern University’s expertise directly to your team.

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Northeastern University’s Roux Institute delivers experiential learning and innovation partnerships that drive measurable business results.

Our approach combines:

  1. Custom Learning Programs that build critical skills in AI, data analytics, and innovation
  2. Working Lab Projects that pair graduate student teams with your challenges
  3. Intrapreneurship Programs that unlock innovation from within your organization
  4. AI Solutions Hub that develops cutting-edge AI and data solutions

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How We Can Help:

Custom Learning: Train your staff in generative AI, SQL, automation, and prompt engineering to transform daily productivity.

Working Lab: Graduate student teams build dashboards, automate reporting pipelines, or prototype AI assistants to streamline routine processes.

Intrapreneurship: Guide employees to identify inefficiencies and design process innovations using lean tools and design thinking frameworks.

AI Solutions Hub: Deliver automation and digital transformation projects including workflow acceleration and summarization tools.

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How We Can Help:

Custom Learning: Comprehensive catalog of courses tailored to all skill levels:

  • For All Employees: Cultivating Data-Driven Decision Making, Maximizing Productivity with Generative AI
  • For Analysts & Technical Staff: Building Predictive & Prescriptive AI Models, Maximizing Productivity with GitHub Copilot
  • For Leaders: Setting Your AI Strategy (4 hrs), Establishing Responsible AI Governance
  • For Communicators: Communicating with Data Visualizations, storytelling across audiences

Intrapreneurship: Train leaders in discovery, prototyping, and innovation frameworks that foster applied AI use throughout the organization.

AI Solutions Hub: Pair delivery projects with experiential AI upskilling so teams gain new capabilities as solutions are deployed.

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How We Can Help:

Custom Learning: Strategy-focused courses for leadership:

Working Lab: Student teams develop dashboards, forecasting models, and decision-support tools that surface real-time insights for strategic planning.

Intrapreneurship: Train rising leaders in business model design, value propositions, prototyping, and testing innovative solutions using lean canvases.

AI Solutions Hub: Build sophisticated analytical capabilities:

  • Forecasting models for financials, supply chain, demand, or workforce planning
  • Recommendation engines that guide optimal choices based on data
  • Responsible AI roadmaps embedding ethical and governance considerations
  • Decision dashboards for leadership visibility

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How We Can Help:

Custom Learning: Train staff on customer-centric analytics:

  • Communicating Effectively with Data: Use analytics to personalize customer engagement
  • Maximizing Productivity with GitHub Copilot: For technical staff building customer-facing solutions efficiently

Working Lab: Student teams develop customer-facing prototypes and analyze customer feedback to improve service delivery.

Intrapreneurship: Encourage employees to design new solutions that directly improve customer journeys and service quality through structured innovation programs.

AI Solutions Hub: Apply advanced AI to scale and personalize customer interactions:

  • Recommendation engines for personalization, upsell/cross-sell, or service matching
  • Generative AI chatbots and customer-facing assistants
  • Natural Language Processing for customer feedback analysis and sentiment detection
  • Predictive guidance tools (like those developed for credit unions)

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Role-Based Upskilling That Pays Off

Upskilling on its own can help, but without a clear map you risk scattershot spend, uneven adoption, and slow results. LEAP pinpoints the highest-leverage skills by role and turns training into targeted, in-the-flow learning with measurable outcomes.

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Our Partnership Approach

We don’t believe in one-size-fits-all solutions. Every partnership begins with understanding your specific goals, challenges, and context. Learn more about how we can create solutions that drive you and your company forward!

Custom Learning

Customized talent development programs in AI, data analytics, and project management. From bite-sized workshops to graduate-level courses.

Develop Your Talent
Working Lab

Flexible, project-based consulting with interdisciplinary graduate student teams supervised by faculty experts. Strategic, cost-effective way to leverage top talent.

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Intrapreneurship Programs

Formal programs that equip employees to ideate, prototype, and pitch innovative solutions. Build internal innovation capabilities.

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AI Solutions Hub

Team of professional data scientists, engineers, and product managers delivering AI and data solutions at the pace of innovation.

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