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Four teams. One research layer.

Executive educationBuild executive programs and client workshops.↗Coaching networksPrepare coaches from a shared business research base.↗Boutique advisoryBuild consulting decks and thought leadership.↗Enterprise L&DBuild leadership programs and manager workshops.↗EnterpriseBuild strategy briefs, board materials, and operating decisions.↗

PathMBA adds a curated business library to Claude or ChatGPT.

Prepare decisions, memos and workshops with answers that name the books, interviews and cases they draw on, so you can check them.

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Who picks what goes in.

The library holds more than 77,000 articles and cases from business-school publishers, and thousands of books and interviews. Former business-school professors and experienced operators select each book, interview and case. When you ask a question, the answer tells you which ones it drew on.

Books
High Output ManagementGood to GreatThe Hard Thing About Hard ThingsThinking, Fast and SlowZero to OneThe Innovator's DilemmaMeasure What MattersLeaders Eat LastThe Lean StartupCrossing the ChasmBlue Ocean StrategyThe Effective ExecutiveInfluenceBuilt to LastStart with WhyOnly the Paranoid Survive
Interviews
Lenny's PodcastAcquiredMasters of ScaleThe Twenty Minute VCHow I Built Thisa16zFirst Round ReviewY CombinatorThe Knowledge ProjectInvest Like the BestThe Tim Ferriss ShowFoundersThe Diary of a CEOAll-InMy First Million

The same question, answered twice.

How would you teach leaders to distinguish a strategy problem from an execution problem?

Claude on its own

Strategy problem: We’re not sure what to do, or the thing we chose to do is wrong.

Execution problem: We know what to do, but we’re not doing it well, consistently, or at all.

Claude with PathMBA

A CEO who tells her manufacturing EVP to “win on fit and finish” hasn’t specified a strategy tight enough to execute without further choices; the EVP still has to decide which levers matter most and in what order [2]. …

[2] CEOs Should Stop Thinking That Execution Is Somebody Else’s Job; It Is Theirs (Roger L. Martin)

For each decision, ask: was this choice specified clearly, or was it left implicit and made downstream without guidance? …

Most organizations skip the perfect-execution test entirely; they re-strategize mid-execution, contaminate the signal, and then argue in the postmortem about which layer failed. …

Sources named in the answer
  1. Leading with StrategyTimothy Tiryaki · Book
  2. CEOs Should Stop Thinking That Execution Is Somebody Else’s Job; It Is TheirsRoger L. Martin · Article
  3. How to Move from Strategy to ExecutionTomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Darko Lovric · Article
  4. Meta’s Head of Product (and 29th employee) on working with Mark ZuckerbergLenny Rachitsky · Podcast
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Before you write.

Does PathMBA store what we ask?

No. It does not store your prompts or the answers, and it does not monitor your team’s work.

What is in the library?

More than 77,000 articles and cases from business-school publishers, plus thousands of business books and interviews with leaders, investors and operators. New material is added every week.

Who selects the sources?

Former business-school professors and experienced operators. Every answer names the book, interview, article or case it draws on.

How does it reach our Claude or ChatGPT?

You connect it once through MCP, the standard way AI tools connect to outside knowledge. After that, the library is there in the conversations your team already has.

Does it write the work for us?

No. PathMBA brings the evidence. Your AI and your team do the thinking, and you own what you make.

Can it fit how our team works?

Yes. We can build skills and templates around the work your team repeats, such as board memos, workshops or client briefs.

Which languages does it work in?

Any language your Claude or ChatGPT supports, with the same sources.

What happens to the question I send here?

We read it, run it through PathMBA and reply with the answer and its sources. We use it for nothing else.

Teams use PathMBA by invitation.

To ask for one, write to us with a question you are working on. We will reply with PathMBA’s answer and its sources.

Or start from one leaders bring

Where should we send the answer?

A person reads every question before we reply. Or write to h@astraed.co.

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