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Home > Degree Programs > Teaching & Courses > 2009-2010 Course Listing > Judgment and Decision Making
MLD-304: Judgment and Decision Making
Faculty: Iris Bohnet
Schedule
| Day | Time | Location | |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Day | 9/2 | ||
| Meet Day | M/W | 2:40 PM - 4:00 PM | L230 |
| Review | F | 10:10 AM - 11:30 PM | 124MA/160 |
Description
Decision science focuses on understanding and improving the judgment and decision making of individuals, groups, and organizations. This course — an introduction to decision science — draws primarily on economics and psychology, examining the interplay between how people “should” make decisions and how people actually do. Through a combination of interactive exercises, quantitative analysis, and case studies, students will learn to analyze the ways decisions are made and to improve their own judgments and decisions. Students will also learn ways to ground public policies and leadership plans in realistic assumptions about human nature. Some of the lessons will be applied to questions in organizational behavior, environmental management, poverty alleviation, law, health and politics. This course is intended to be a core course for MPA2 students. It is open to other students by permission of the instructor only.