Adaptive learning, navigating diversity, and social networks are critical for decision making, interpersonal and team effectiveness, and investment opportunities, respectively. In this webinar by Department of Management, Prof Ellick Wong will talk about how adaptive learning will actually lead to sub-optimal decisions and how this can be avoided; Prof Melody Chao will explore how our mindsets and environmental factors influence our ease in managing diversity; lastly Prof Pavel Zhelyazkov will provide an overview of his research on how social networks shape venture capital (VC) firms’ syndication activities as well as access to deals and capital.