CMCE Next Gen 2.0: Risky Business is a series of interactive workshops with leading academics and practitioners to explore the fundamentals of behavioural economics, how they can be used reflectively to change how we think about business today, and what they mean for how we engage with the future of technology. CMCE is holding them jointly with Dr Edmond Smith, Senior Lecturer in Economic Cultures at the University of Manchester.
Workshop One: How Do You Make Decisions? will be held online on 11 April 2024 at 4.00 pm.
Much of life and business comes down to making choices. But how do you make decisions? We might like to think that we carefully collect and assess information, consider the outcomes dispassionately, and reach a rational decision: but how often can that really be the case? Who hasn’t found themselves making a snap judgement based on first impressions, on gut feeling, or half-heard rumours coming down the grapevine? Rather than suggesting that this is a mistake, this session will simply accept that this is how we all reach decisions and aim to draw out the influences that shape us.
Subsequent workshops will take place on the following dates:
Workshop 2: 9 May, 4pm, online
Workshop 3: 23 May, 4pm, online
Workshop 4: 13 June, 4pm, online
Workshop 5: 27 June, time and venue to be confirmed.