Dani Bassett

Building on the Fly by Design: How Policymakers Create Innovative Solutions to Wicked Problems

In this project, students will help to understand how senior leaders make decisions in the face of an unprecedented health care emergency. While an enormous amount of work goes into preparing for disaster, what happens when the disaster is so much worse than predicted that none of the plans apply anymore? How do leaders make critical decisions in a crisis of exceptional size and scope? How do they collaborate across sectors, and innovate beyond traditional processes and methods in this kind of a crisis?