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Make Better Decisions
Equip your organization with practical tools to recognize and outsmart hidden bias so people can make better decisions, work together more effectively, and build a culture that reflects your values.
These courses translate over 30 years of research into actionable strategies for the workplace.
Make Better Decisions is a two-course online series developed by Harvard Professor Mahzarin Banaji, that helps leaders and employees recognize and outsmart hidden bias so they can make better decisions, collaborate more effectively, and build a values-aligned culture. Pair a 3-week deep dive for managers and key influencers with a 90-minute essentials course for employees at all levels to create a shared language and toolkit across your organization. Flexible enough for onboarding, leadership development, and culture initiatives, this research-backed program turns decades of science on bias into practical strategies you can implement right away.
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2 Courses
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Make Better Decisions: The Psychology of Blind Spots for Leaders and Teams
1–2 hours per week • Starting Jan 21, 2026
Make Better Decisions: Essentials for Employees
90 minutes
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I have walked away with a transformative learning experience that will positively impact my professional work to move employers towards more inclusive hiring practices for immigrant and refugee talent and how I show up as a manager of my team.
Kimberly C.
Director of Employer Engagement
This course has completely changed my thinking. It has taught me that our decision-making process can always improve by identifying information that was previously considered irrelevant, as well as recognizing biases that we have ingrained since conception. Now, any decision I make will be more analytical and objective, both in my workplace and in my personal life.
Sergio Q.
The content was truly engaging and presented in a very dynamic way. It created a positive impact on me since it made me reflect thoroughly about how I navigate myself at work, since my day-to-day involves interactions with a very multicultural community.
Leticia C.
I would recommend the course of Outsmarting Implicit Bias to each of my family friend, professional and social colleagues to take up this role as it provides a key to open the lock of how our Minds work. In our day to day jobs, we somehow neglect to realize the impact of Pause and Rational Data based decisions. We somehow fail to realize the impact of the loss that we can incur due to our Intuitive decision making without understanding the impact of biases. IAT certainly came in as an Eye Opener for me and can help everyone in their journey to realize, accept and acknowledge first about their possible Implicit biases.
Nachiket D.
Past Participant Discounts
Learners who have enrolled in at least one qualifying Harvard Online program can receive a 30% discount, automatically applied to the Program Fee upon time of payment.
Learners who have earned a verified certificate for a HarvardX course hosted on the edX platform are eligible to receive a 30% discount using a discount code. Please check your email for a code or contact us.