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Yale SOM Executive Education: Decision Making

Make more effective choices in both business and your personal life with an understanding of the drivers behind decision making.

Make more effective choices in both business and your personal life with an understanding of the drivers behind decision making.

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6 weeks
6–8 hours per week
Starts May 8, 2024
Enroll by May 14, 2024
Instructor-paced
Instructor-led on a course schedule
6 weeks
6–8 hours per week
Starts May 8, 2024
Enroll by May 14, 2024
Instructor-paced
Instructor-led on a course schedule

About this Course

In an increasingly complex world, the decisions we make have a profound impact on our successes, both personally and professionally, and can influence the direction of our lives, careers, organizations, and even societies.

The Decision Making online program from the Yale School of Management Executive Education gives you the knowledge and skills needed to make effective decisions across any context. Guided by expert faculty, you’ll develop an understanding of the psychological and behavioral drivers, biases, rules, and heuristics that form the foundation of how decisions are made. You’ll also explore the core pillars of decision making — context, uncertainty, and time — in order to better analyze your decisions and make more informed choices, no matter your situation.

This program is useful for anyone who wants to master the art of effective decision making. Senior leaders and decision makers who often have to solve problems in the face of uncertainty would benefit from the content, as would professionals across a variety of functions. This includes people in fast-paced industries such as marketing, finance, IT, and business development. Those looking for guidance on how to make better decisions in their everyday life will also find great value in this program.

Course curriculum

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Explore the driving forces behind decision making as you work through the weekly modules of this online program.

Orientation module: Welcome to your Online Campus

Module 1: Principles of decision making

Module 2: Context and choice in decision making

Module 3: Context and decision rules

Module 4: Decision making under risk and uncertainty

Module 5: Time in decision making

Module 6: Integrating context, uncertainty, and time

About the certificate

Get recognized for your expertise when you earn an official certificate of participation from the Yale SOM Executive Education.

Assessment is continuous and based on a series of practical assignments completed online. In order to be issued with your digital certificate, you’ll need to meet the requirements outlined in the program handbook. The handbook will be made available to you as soon as you begin the program.

Your certificate will be issued in your legal name and sent to you digitally upon successful completion of the program, as per the stipulated requirements.

Some facts about the subject

35,000

The average number of decisions a person makes every day.

CBS News (Aug, 2019).

46%

The percentage of companies that go bankrupt due to ineffective decision making by their leaders.

Psychology Today (Aug, 2019).

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