Spring 2023 Management B8577 section 002

Think Bigger

Call Number 17052
Day & Time
Location
W 6:00pm-9:15pm
420 GEFFEN HALL
Points 3
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required None
Instructor Sheena Iyengar
Type LECTURE
Method of Instruction In-Person
Course Description How do we get our best ideas? And, once we have an idea, how do we know if we should pursue it? That’s what the Think Bigger course is about: what it takes to create our best ideas.

Over the last decade, modern science—in particular, neuro- and cognitive sciences—have revealed to us how creative ideas develop in the human mind. Here, I present this new knowledge to you as a six-step method called Think Bigger. In every class session, I draw on the relevant science and on many instructive examples to explain the method’s rationale and how it works in practice.

We use a workshop format, where every session includes individual in-class exercises, or “creative challenges,” which enable you to develop your skills as an ideator. In addition, all students join a group project, take on an important problem facing our world, and strive to use the six-step method to generate a solution which will be showcased on the last day of class.

Think Bigger is a new and unique ideation methodology only offered here at Columbia Business School. It is different from previous mainstream methods of ideation, like Design Thinking. We will use as a textbook a complete draft of Think Bigger, a book by me that will be published in April 2023.
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Department MANAGEMENT
Enrollment 58 students as of 9:06PM Thursday, April 18, 2024
Status Full
Subject Management
Number B8577
Section 002
Division School of Business
Open To Business, Engineering:Graduate, Journalism
Campus Morningside
Section key 20231MGMT8577B002