SEM 420
Strategic Decision Making with Management Analytics
Fall 2026
Topics
- Decision Making: The Rational Choice Perspective & Constructing Data
- Decision Making: The Rational Choice Perspective & Analyzing Structured Data
- Data Analysis: Leveraging Algorithms to Build and Assess Unstructured Data
- Wrangling & Description - Mini-Lab 2
- Decision Making: The Psychological Perspective (Understanding Biases) - and Visuals
- Platforms, Virtual, AI-Assisted
- Ecosystems
Readings
- (b) Kahneman, D. (2011). Thinking, Fast and Slow. Penguin
- (c) March, J. G. (1994). Primer on Decision Making. Free Press
- (a) Iansiti, M., & Lakhani, K. (2020). Competing in the Age of AI. Harvard Business Review
- (b) Sahay, A. (2018). Business Analytics at a Glance. Harvard Business Publishing
Winter 2026
Topics
- Decision Making: The Rational Choice Perspective - Data Analysis: Constructing Data
- Decision Making: The Rational Choice Perspective - Displaying Structured Data
- Data Analysis: Leveraging Algorithms to Build and Assess Unstructured Data - Perspective (Understanding Biases)
- Decision Making: The Psychological Perspective (Understanding Biases) - and Visuals
- Platforms, Virtual, AI-Assisted
- Background: March. A Primer on Decision Making
Readings
- (b) Kahneman, D. (2011). Thinking, Fast and Slow. Penguin
- (c) March, J. G. (1994). Primer on Decision Making. Free Press
- (a) Iansiti, M., & Lakhani, K. (2020). Competing in the Age of AI. Harvard Business Review
- (b) Sahay, A. (2018). Business Analytics at a Glance. Harvard Business Publishing
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- 2025-Winter-SEM-420-LECTURE-B01 ↗2025
- 2026-Winter-SEM-420-LECTURE-B01 ↗2026
- 2026-Winter-SEM-420-LECTURE-B02 ↗2026
- 2026-Fall-SEM-420-LECTURE-A01 ↗2026
- Additional readings are supplied through the course LMS. Partial automated extraction.
- Partial automated extraction.