Executive Decision Making

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

This course focuses on strategies and frameworks for decision making in today’s world of interconnection and dynamic change. It examines the relationships between strategic thinking, strategic planning, and decision making, recognizing that the complex problems of today often cross disciplinary boundaries and geographic borders. Traditional approaches to decision making such as the analytic model and cost benefit analysis are compared to new approaches such as intuition and systems thinking. The course also examines the information-rich world of executives, and addresses strategies for leveraging the abundance of information rather than being overwhelmed by it. Recent findings in cognitive and neuro-science are discussed and their implications for effective decision making explored.