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Overview
What you will study
In the Behavioral Decision Making course offered by Harvard University , we will use the frameworks of choice architecture to examine the decision-making process. We’ll study the various ways choices are framed—and how this framing can influence decisions. The topics explored will help you become a better decision maker in your professional life and beyond.
Program Benefits
- Explore the fast-growing fields of behavioral economics, behavioral insights, and behavioral decision making––and why they matter
- Learn how to identify cognitive biases and structure your environment to eliminate destructive bias
- Discover the psychological factors that drive economic decisions and how they impact your business and bottom line
- Improve your ability to forecast the outcomes of decisions
- Understand how to leverage the power of “nudges” and behavioral interventions
- Understand how heuristics and biases can affect the decisions you make everyday
Programme Structure
The program focuses on:
- Judgment
- Human biases that affect judgment
- Conscious and unconscious choice-drivers
- The effect of emotion on judgment
- Judgmental errors that plague all organizations
- Ways to “de-bias” judgment
- Decision Making
- Understanding of choice architecture
- Exploration of the origins of behavioral decision making
- Perception of risk, its impact on choices, and how to better communicate it
- Decision making under uncertainty and what an ideal decision looks like
- Choice Architecture in Business
- How businesses and governments are using behavioral economics to design decision making
- The promises and pitfalls of forecasting
- Experimentation and data to optimize performance
- How to become an effective decision architect by redesigning the decision-making context
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 2 days
Start dates & application deadlines
- Starting
- Apply before
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Language
English
Delivered
On Campus
Disciplines
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Academic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
Other requirements
General requirements
- This program is applicable to anyone in general management who wants to improve decision making at their organization and positively affect the bottom line.
Student insurance
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- Additional medical costs (i.e. dental)
- Repatriation, if something happens to you or your family
- Liability
- Home contents and baggage
- Accidents
- Legal aid
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Tuition Fee
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International
2990 USD/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 2990 USD for the full programme during 2 days. -
National
2990 USD/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 2990 USD for the full programme during 2 days.
Living costs for Cambridge
1814 - 3756 USD /month
Living costs
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