Decision Making

Topics

	Rational Decision Making
	Other Decision Making Models
	Common decision making problems
	Group decision making
	Forecasting
	Cost-Benefit analysis

Readings

	Starling pp. 206 - 245; 249 - 288; 532 - 568;
	Palumbo & Maynard-Moody "Chapter 6" (RES #4)
	Handouts - Problem Solving and Policy Analysis
	Challenger - 20 year recap (MSNBC 1/06)
	Challenger - 7 myths (MSNBC (1/06)
	Challenger - Look to the future (MSNBC 1/06)
	Challenger - Can History Repeat (MSNBC 1/06)

Lecture Notes

	Lecture Notes: Decision Making
	Lecture Notes: Policy Analysis and Problem Solving

Video Picks

There are several good movies that depict decision making in large organizations. A recent one is:

Thirteen Days (2001) staring Kevin Costner. Movie tells the story of the Cuban missile crisis that brought the U.S. and Soviet Union to the brink of war. The movie does an excellent job of illustrating the decision making process used to resolve the crisis. (True Story).

There are also several good movies that illustrate problem solving in large organizations. A personal favorite that I would highly recommend is:

Apollo 13 (1995) staring Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon: Movie tells the story of the ill-fated mission to land on the moon and how the crew and NASA overcome a series of problems to return the crew safely (True Story).

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