Courses

Like the MBA course of the same name, this course, brings together psychological concepts and insights from theater practice to allow students to examine their relationship with power and gives them a framework to understand and manage the way they show up in interpersonal situations.

This course provides tools that can help you successfully lead individuals, groups, and organizations. The material serves as a practical guide to managing workplace behavior—your own and that of your coworkers. To explain key concepts, we draw on robust social science research, which highlights several leadership challenges: making sound decisions ...

Policymakers often need to make decisions when the implications of those decisions are not known with certainty. In many cases they rely in part on statistical evidence to guide these decisions. This requires statistical methods for estimating causal effects, that is the impact of these interventions. In this course, we ...

As society faces major challenges, democracies and “free-market” capitalism appear to be in crisis. This interdisciplinary course will explore the complex interactions between corporations, governments, and individuals, drawing on insights from the social sciences, business, and law to understand how institutions and collective actions translate to a set of rules ...

This course will begin by examining strategy in established companies. What is strategy? What are the components of good strategies? How is internal and external strategic consistency achieved? Who sets strategy, and how? With answers to these questions in hand, we will turn to how strategy is different in start-ups ...

Human thinking is geared toward understanding and mastering social interactions. GSBUG115 explores cognitive, affective, behavioral, social and organizational processes that shape how we manage strategic interactions. The course builds on concepts and research findings from decision theory, behavioral game theory, negotiation research, and other relevant streams of investigation in the ...

This course introduces the fundamental principles of financial and managerial accounting, cost accounting, managerial decision-making, interpreting financial statements and ratios, cost data, budget information. The course will conclude by introducing select topics in corporate governance and managerial economics that are relevant for decision-making. Highlights include learning: Learning Outcomes: The definition ...

Unlock the language of corporate social responsibility with our course “Metrics and Their Meaning: Interpreting Corporate Environmental and Social Impact Disclosures.” Have you wondered what corporations reveal about their environmental and social policies and performance? Do you want the skills to interpret their disclosures, to understand how companies manage their ...

What does the AI revolution mean for the future of work, careers and organizations? The course will start with an overview of leading theories of organizations, all of which were effectively modeled on the 20th century firm. We will then turn to understanding recent developments in machine learning and AI ...

In its exploration of the future of money and payments, this course focuses on technology, market competition, and public policy. Money and payments have long been dominated by physical cash and by transfers between deposit accounts of correspondent banks, including central banks. After a grounding in conventional payment systems, the ...

This course introduces and operationalizes the Triple Bottom Line framework for measuring and managing sustainable value creation. The framework highlights the balance that needs to be achieved by an organization across three dimensions of sustainability-related performance - environmental stewardship, social impact, and value creation - and provides a powerful lens ...