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May 27, 2026
Teaching Fellow
EMBA in DC Program
Fall - 2026
Julia Hur
Managerial Decision Makin
MGMT-GB 3251.85
2.5
Rebecca Letbetter
1 Year MBA, Langone, MBA Fulltime, MS (Stern)
Job Description: Main responsibilities include standard course management tasks: 1) Posting to the course's Brightspace page 2) Polling and group project management 3) Grading and 4) Roster management. Desired Qualifications: Has taken Managerial Decision Making previously and has prior TF experience. In order to work as a Teaching Fellow, you must have completed 9 or more credits, have a GPA of at least 3.0, and be enrolled in the semester in which you plan to work (with the exception of the summer term). Full-time and Part-time regular employees of NYU are not eligible to hold Teaching Fellow or Graduate Fellow positions. Course Description: Every day, leaders make consequential decisions shaped by mental shortcuts they rarely pause to examine. Why do smart, experienced executives make poor decisions? Why do groups arrive at worse decisions than any single member would have reached alone? Why do some organizations consistently nudge their members toward better choices, while others inadvertently facilitate cognitive biases and social pressures? This course examines how managers make decisions—and how they can make them better. Drawing on research from behavioral economics, social psychology, and organizational behavior, we explore the biases and heuristics that influence individual judgment, the dynamics that shape decision-making in groups and teams, and the organizational environments that guide or distort choices. Together, this course is built on two premises. First, your greatest vulnerability as a decision-maker is not a lack of intelligence — it is a lack of awareness about how your own mind and surrounding environment shape your choices. Second, awareness alone is not enough. The course aims to provide practical tools to diagnose decision traps, redesign flawed processes, and build better systems that protect organizational members against predictable errors. Professor Bio: Julia D. Hur is a Global Network Associate Professor of Management and Organizations at NYU, affiliated with the Stern School of Business. She holds a PhD in Management and Organizations from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Professor Hur has taught courses on leadership, negotiation, and organizational behavior at the Kellogg School of Management and the Stern School of Business. She has taught courses for the Executive MBA, MBA, and undergraduate programs, and has provided consulting to leaders and professionals across various government agencies and industries. Professor Hur’s research interests include motivation, incentives, and organizational decision-making. She examines how individuals' motivation and cognition are shaped by their organizational environment, which includes factors such as rewards, relationships, and social comparison. Utilizing a multi-method approach, she employs field studies, laboratory experiments, and archival data. Her work has been published in leading academic journals across the fields of Management, Marketing, and Psychology. These include Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Organization Science, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Consumer Research, and Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. Her research has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, The Harvard Business Review, and other prominent media outlets. If interested, please email Rebecca Letbetter at rebecca.letbetter@stern.nyu.edu with your resume and brief statement about you and your interest in this position.
Rebecca Letbetter, rebecca.letbetter@stern.nyu.edu

Notes:

Teaching Fellows (Undergraduate and MBA students) and Graduate Fellows (MBA students):
In compliance with NYC's Pay Transparency Act, the undergraduate hourly rate is $18 and the graduate hourly rate is $30. Please see the following websites for more information:
https://www.stern.nyu.edu/portal-partners/current-students/student-jobs/undergraduate-students
https://www.stern.nyu.edu/portal-partners/current-students/student-jobs/mba-students

Teaching Fellows/Course Assistants (non-MBA graduate students) and Graduate Fellows (non-MBA graduate students):
In compliance with NYC's Pay Transparency Act, the hourly rate of $30 is based on the collective bargaining agreement with Local 2110. Please see the following websites for more information: https://www.stern.nyu.edu/portal-partners/current-students/student-jobs/phd-students
https://www.stern.nyu.edu/portal-partners/current-students/student-jobs/dual-degree-students
https://www.stern.nyu.edu/portal-partners/current-students/student-jobs/other-students