Fall 2024

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 ...

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 ...