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The topic of the class is information economics. The purpose is to give an introduction to some of the main subjects in this field: risk sharing, moral hazard, adverse selection (signaling, screening), mechanism design, decision making under uncertainty. These subjects (and others) will be treated in more depth in the advanced theory course
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- economics
- information
- economics
- microeconomic theory
- money
- risk sharing
- moral hazard
- adverse selection
- signaling
- screening
- mechanism design
- decision making
- uncertainty
- decision-making
- information economics
- incentive theory
- contract theory
- choice
- choices
- microeconomic analysis
- risk
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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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Topics include productivity effects of health, private and social returns to education, education quality, education policy and market equilibrium, gender discrimination, public finance, decision making within families, firms and contracts, technology, labor and migration, land, and the markets for credit and savings.
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- economics
- productivity
- health
- education
- market equilibrium
- gender discrimination
- public finance
- decision making
- families
- firms
- contracts
- technology
- labor
- migration
- land
- credit
- savings
- poverty
- inequality
- nutrition
- school choice
- school vouchers
- subsidies
- taxes
- employment
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This course covers the basic models and solution techniques for problems of sequential decision making under uncertainty (stochastic control). We will consider optimal control of a dynamical system over both a finite and an infinite number of stages (finite and infinite horizon). We will also discuss some approximation methods for problems
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- electrical engineering and computer science
- dynamic programming
- stochastic control
- decision making
- uncertainty
- sequential decision making
- finite horizon
- infinite horizon
- approximation methods
- state space
- large state space
- optimal control
- dynamical system
- dynamic programming and optimal control
- deterministic systems
- shortest path
- state information
- rollout
- stochastic s
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This course explores perspectives in the policy process - agenda setting, problem definition, framing the terms of debate, formulation and analysis of options, implementation and evaluation of policy outcomes using frameworks including economics and markets, law, and business and management. Methods include cost/benefit analysis, probabilis
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- engineering systems division
- politics
- decision making
- negotiation
- planning
- wedge game
- climate change
- global warming
- nrc
- nuclear power
- nuclear energy
- nuclear proliferation
- government
- public policy
- globalization
- science
- epa
- nsf
- transportation
- urban planning
- standards
- risk
- risk assessment
- engineering
- energy
- internet
- network neutrality
- regulation
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This course introduces the theory and the practice of engineering ethics using a multi-disciplinary and cross-cultural approach. Theory includes ethics and philosophy of engineering. Historical cases are taken primarily from the scholarly literatures on engineering ethics, and hypothetical cases are written by students. Each student will wr
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- engineering systems division
- philosophy
- myth
- kant
- john stuart mill
- kierkegaard
- augustine
- joseph campbell
- risk
- disaster
- honesty
- whisteblower
- social responsibility
- pugwash
- environment
- bioethics
- lawsuit
- praxistics
- decision making
- management
- accident
- choice
- morals
- complexity
- judgement
- consequence
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"The Art of the Probable" addresses the history of scientific ideas, in particular the emergence and development of mathematical probability. But it is neither meant to be a history of the exact sciences per se nor an annex to, say, the Course 6 curriculum in probability and statistics. Rather, our objective is to focus on the formal, thema
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- literature
- philosophy
- scientific thought
- scientific method
- mathematics
- chance
- risk
- statistics
- history of science
- quantitative measurement
- chaos
- uncertainty
- induction
- deduction
- inference
- luck
- gambling
- cause and effect
- games of chance
- fate
- prediction
- rationality
- decision making
- religion
- randomness
- knowledge
- fact
- human nature
- m
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This course begins with a comparative review of conventional and advanced multiple attribute decision making (MADM) models in engineering practice. Next, a new application of particular MADM models in reliable material selection of sensitive structural components as well as a multi-criteria Taguchi optimization method is discussed. Other sp
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- mechanical engineering
- materials selection
- tradeoff
- optimization
- taguchi
- multiple attribute
- decision making
- multiple attribute decision making
- performance index
- rank stability analysis
- decision matrix
- multi-criteria decision making
- multiobjective optimization
- pareto
- topsis
- electre
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This course explores the social relevance of neuroscience, considering how emerging areas of brain research at once reflect and reshape social attitudes and agendas. Topics include brain imaging and popular media; neuroscience of empathy, trust, and moral reasoning; new fields of neuroeconomics and neuromarketing; ethical implications of ne
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- science technology and society
- cognitive science
- evolutionary psychology
- neurobiology
- brain imaging
- mri
- ct scan
- fmri
- brain
- mind
- morality
- moral reasoning
- decision making
- intelligence
- empathy
- trust
- religion
- love
- emotion
- gender differences
- sexuality
- stress
- prejudice
- attention
- psychopharmaceuticals
- antidepressant
- neuroeconomics
- neuromarketing
- neuro
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We will explore the changing political choices and ethical dilemmas of American scientists from the atomic scientists of World War II to biologists in the present wrestling with the questions raised by cloning and other biotechnologies. As well as asking how we would behave if confronted with the same choices, we will try to understand the
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- science technology and society
- risk
- science
- society
- ethics
- politics
- technology
- history
- controversy
- atomic
- whistleblowing
- gmo
- genetic engineering
- nuclear
- space exploration
- energy
- policy
- debate
- museum
- archeology
- war
- terrorism
- tradeoff
- decision making
- medicine
- health care policy
- biotechnology
- climate change
- global warming
- human subjects
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One objective of 15.066J is to introduce modeling, optimization and simulation, as it applies to the study and analysis of manufacturing systems for decision support. The introduction of optimization models and algorithms provide a framework to think about a wide range of issues that arise in manufacturing systems. The second objective is t
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- management
- modeling
- optimization
- simulation
- manufacturing systems
- decision making
- decision support
- probabilistic simulation
- designing manufacturing systems
- operations management
- linear programming
- sensitivity analysis
- network flow problems
- non-linear programming
- lagrange multipliers
- integer programming
- discrete-event simulation
- heurist
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This course is centered on twelve negotiation exercises that simulate competitive business situations. Specific topics covered include distributive bargaining (split the pie!), mixed motive bargaining (several issues at stake) with two and with more than two parties, auctions and fair division. Ethical dilemmas in negotiation are discussed
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- management
- negotiation
- distributive bargaining
- ethics
- dispute resolution
- decision making
- fair division
- bidding
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Our subject is the ethics of leadership, an examination of the principles appealed to by executive authority when questions arise about its sources and its legitimacy. Most treatments of this subject resort to case-studies in order to illustrate the application of ethical principles to business situations, but our primary emphasis will be upon classic works of imaginative literature, which convey more directly than case-studies the ethical pressures of decision-making. Readings will include works by Shakespeare, Sophocles, Shaw, E.M. Forster, Joseph Conrad, George Orwell, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and Henrik Ibsen, among others. Topics to be discussed include the sources of authority, the management of consensus, the ideal of vocation, the ethics of deception, the morality of expediency, the requirements of hierarchy, the virtues and vices of loyalty, the relevance of ethical principles in extreme situations.
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We function in our personal and professional lives based on knowledge and intuitions. Our intuition that we know a lot is very powerful. But sometimes intuitions are accurate and sometimes they are not; without research, it is hard to tell.
This course combines a few different goals: develop a critical eye for making inferences from data; b
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- management
- psychology
- group dynamics
- motivation
- reward system
- incentive
- norms
- creativity
- decision making
- leadership
- career development
- organization
- mentor
- communication
- management
- business
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Surveys social psychology and organization theory interpreted in the context of the managerial environment. Shares lectures with 15.301, with a separate recitation required. 15.301 is intended primarily for non-Sloan students, both graduate and undergraduate. Deals with a number of diverse subjects, including motivation and reward systems f
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- management
- psychology
- group dynamics
- motivation
- reward system incentive
- incentive
- norms
- creativity
- decision making
- leadership
- career development
- organization
- mentor
- communication
- management
- business
- business
- career development
- communication
- creativity
- decision making
- group dynamics
- incentive
- leadership
- management
- mentor
- reward
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Organizational Processes enhances students' ability to take effective action in complex organizational settings by providing the analytic tools needed to analyze, manage, and lead the organizations of the future. Emphasis is placed on the importance of the organizational context in influencing which individual styles and skills are effectiv
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- management
- optimal organization
- corporate structure
- bureaucracy
- organizational behavior
- contingency theory
- organizational change
- power
- politics
- culture
- strategic design
- studying organizations
- team project
- hiring
- decision making
- business ethics
- corporate incentives
- authority
- networks
- negotiation
- bargaining
- leading change
- complex or
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This course is an intensive one-week introduction to leadership, teams, and learning communities. The class meets daily for five days. The class serves as an introduction of concepts and uses a variety of experiential exercises to develop individual and team skills, as well as supportive relationships within the Leaders for Manufacturing cl
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- management
- leadership
- teambuilding
- ladder of inference
- learning communities
- experiences
- management
- teams
- skill set
- facilitation
- motivation
- decision making
- planned change
- universe within
- fifth discipline
- peter senge
- rick ross
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