B8553-001: Managerial Decision Making
T - A Term, 09:00AM to 12:15PM
Credit hours: 1.5
Location: URI 141
Instructor: Joel Brockner; Steve Harty
The course is designed to improve how you go about making managerial and personal decisions. The basic premise of the course is that a variety of factors can interfere with good decision-making. Some of these obstacles are at the level of the individual, some at the level of the group, and others at the level of the organization. The course emphasizes how to work through and around these various obstacles, and thereby bring about high quality decisions. The course integrates theory and practice; it will be team-taught by a faculty member in the Management Division and by an Executive-in-Residence at Columbia Business School.
Joel Brockner
Phillip Hettleman Professor of Business
Within the broader field of organizational behavior, Professor Brockner is well known for his work in several areas, including the effects of organizational downsizing on the productivity and morale of the "survivors," the management of organizational change, organizational justice, self processes in organizations and managerial judgment and decision making. He teaches the MBA elective course Managerial Decision Making, the Ph.D. course...
Stephen Harty
Executive in Residence
Stephen Harty has 23 years of C-level experience in two very different industries. He's now focused on assisting both private sector and non-profit organizations with strategic and communications issues and his role as an Adjunct professor of management at CBS. Most recently Steve was CEO and Vice Chairman of National Flood Services in Kalispell MT. On his watch, the firm acquired...