Lectures and war stories from management consultants experienced in applying decision analysis. Student teams critique decisions from news articles, case studies, and interviews with leaders of local organizations.
Topics include: roles people play, normative versus descriptive processes, avoiding traps and failure modes, advocacy and inquiry, decision quality measures, organizational leadership, decision process, creativity, decision psychology, biases and expert judgment, structuring decision models, new venture investing, and movie studio portfolios.
2 units, Aut (Robinson, Holtzman)
