Ben Bernanke Econ 490 Fall 2019

This class enhanced a lot of ideas and concepts that were never really taught in a classroom setting. Through the blogs, I was able to reflect on a lot of internship and RSO experiences in a way that I never have before. The various different models for the way people inherently act in organizations or group settings taught me a lot about the structure on how to potentially resolve these issues. It put a lot of these very simple and day to day conflicts and situations in a more methodical light and allowed me to reflect on experiences I once just looked over as failures in projects or bad team members or even bad leadership. This class really allowed me to use a lot of economic principles we learn in other classes as well such as game theory concepts and macroeconomic mathematical concepts. A lot of things learned in previous classes were put into more real life scenarios and situations. My process for doing the blogs and excel homework was pretty consistent after the first week of ...

This model in relation to the different types of conflicts we have been addressing is very interesting. I believe in situations when a person is trying to mediate two sides of a situation it must be done in a very reasonable and thought-out way in order to come out with the most successful outcome. I have experienced this in multiple situations both in work and internships as well as in RSOs on campus. Holding a leadership position often puts people in situations where they have to balance out the authoritative aspects with also maintaining a positive relationship with every member of their team. I have talked about my experience in an on-campus consulting organization in a lot of my blog posts because of the amount of real-life experience it has provided for me. My experience in CUBE consulting, an entirely student-run organization has taught me so much about the way organizations run and has provided me examples of a lot of the situations talked about in this class.  A...