2024/2025

Management Decisions

Type: Minor

Delivered by: Department of Strategic and International Management

Where: Graduate School of Business

When: 2-4 module

Open to: students of all HSE University campuses

Instructors: Nikolay Filinov

Language: English

ECTS credits: 5

Contact hours: 48

Course Syllabus

Abstract

Decision-making processes related to different business functions and different levels of management reveal common patterns. Knowledge of these patterns, the ability to structure the process of developing and making decisions in the most rational way, the skills of individual and group decision-making are extremely important for a manager. Therefore, along with other academic disciplines, training programs for managers and researchers of management problems include a special course managerial decision-making. The course is instrumental and methodological in nature. This means that it examines methods, tools (mathematical, informational), procedures, individual and group technologies for making management decisions. Unlike other management disciplines, which answer the question of what management decision should be made in a given situation in marketing, personnel management, finance, etc., the course answers the question of how to organize development and decision-making in a given situation. The relevance of the course as an interdisciplinary one is ensured by the use of the results of modern research in the field of psychology, behavioral economics, organizational behavior and applied mathematics aimed at solving current problems of business practice. The tasks and problem situations discussed in the course are aimed at developing students’ skills in making ethical, socially responsible decisions that contribute to the sustainable development of society. The course uses numerous domestic and foreign sources, including publications and video materials. It is envisaged that students will complete individual and group assignments, based on Russian and foreign business practices. Current control in the discipline includes: individual homework, a group project and a written exam.