Managerial Decision Making: Course Outline

Intro to Decision Making

• Making Management Decisions-The Content and Context of Management Decisions
• Introduction to Rational models- Mathematical and Statistical models

Rational Models (contd.)

• NOVOED 

Rational Models (contd.)

• Limitations 

Psychology of Mind

• Thinking 

Mintzberg approach to Decision Making

Preference Reversals - Inconsistency within the Decision-Maker

Learning and Decision Making - The role of experience

Motivation and Decision Making

Fairness, Ethics, and Rationality

Bounded Awareness and Ethicality

Improving Decisions

Decision Making in Finance

Chapter 1 Relativity of Financial Preferences: How Choice 

• Options Influence Investment Decision Making  Ivo Vlaev and Nick Chater

Chapter 10 The Conflict between Money and Self-Esteem in Investment Liqing Zhang

Systems Thinking

Critiques and New Directions I

Critiques and New Directions II

Conclusion