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15.010 is the Sloan School's core subject in microeconomics, with sections for non-Sloan students labeled 15.011. Our objective is to give you a working knowledge of the analytical tools that bear most directly on the economic decisions firms must regularly make. We will emphasize market structure and industrial performance, including the s
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- management
- auctions
- transfer pricing
- market structure
- industrial performance
- strategic interaction of firms
- individual markets
- producers and consumers
- sell and buy
- cost analysis
- determinants of market demand
- pricing strategy
- market power
- implications of government regulatory policies
- implications of economics
- business practices
- incentiv
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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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15.012 Applied Macro- and International Economics uses case studies to investigate the macroeconomic environment in which firms operate. The first half of the course develops the basic tools of macroeconomic management: monetary, fiscal, and exchange rate policy. The class discusses recent emerging market and financial crises by examining t
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- management
- international economics
- macroeconomics
- monetary policy
- fiscal policy
- exchange rate policy
- financial crisis
- emerging market crisis
- economic development
- foreign aid
- natural resources
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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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15.014 focuses on using case studies to investigate the macroenvironment in which firms operate. The course is divided in five parts:
Basic tools of macroeconomic management
Evaluation of different economic development strategies
Crises in emerging markets: causes, solutions, and prevention
Problems faced by transition economies
Challenges
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- management
- macroeconomics
- international economics
- world economies
- global trade
- economic policy
- inflation
- interest rates
- exchange rates
- national economic strategies
- developing nations
- currency crisis
- transition economies
- global markets
- world bank
- imf
- international monetary fund
- monetary policy
- depression
- unemployment
- international fi
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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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Competition in Telecommunications provides an introduction to the economics, business strategies, and technology of telecommunications markets. This includes markets for wireless communications, local and long-distance services, and customer equipment. The convergence of computers, cable TV and telecommunications and the competitive emergen
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- management
- telephone
- internet
- communications
- economics
- business strategy
- technologies
- wireless
- convergence
- cable television
- governmental regulations
- public policy
- evolution of technology
- computer hardware and software
- voip
- data and voice traffic
- network integration
- deregulation
- cell phones
- wifi
- internet commerce
- spectrum auctions
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This class introduces scientific, economic, and ecological issues underlying the threat of global climate change, and the institutions engaged in negotiating an international response. It also develops an integrated approach to analysis of climate change processes, and assessment of proposed policy measures, drawing on research and model de
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- management
- global climate change
- economics
- science and policy
- ecological issues
- threat
- international response
- climate change processes
- policy measures
- research and model development
- mit joint program on the science and policy of global change
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This half-term course examines the choices that we make which affect others and the choices others make that affect us. Such situations are known as "games" and game-playing, while sounding whimsical, is serious business. Managers frequently play "games" both within the firm and outside it – with competitors, customers, regulators, and even
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- management
- game theory
- strategy games
- strategic thinking
- business strategy
- strategic reasoning
- rationality
- dominant strategies
- first-mover advantage
- conflict strategies
- strategic substitutes
- strategic complements
- dynamic pricing
- entering new markets
- new market entry
- brinksmanship
- negotiation
- negotiating
- auctions
- auction theory
- reven
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15.053 introduces students to the theory, algorithms, and applications of optimization. Optimization methodologies include linear programming, network optimization, integer programming, decision trees, and dynamic programming. The methods have applications to logistics, manufacturing, transportation, marketing, project management, and finan
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- management
- optimization methods
- management science
- theory
- algorithms
- applications
- linear programming
- network optimization
- integer programming
- decision trees
- logistics
- manufacturing
- transportation
- marketing
- project management
- finance
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Managers and engineers are constantly attempting to optimize, particularly in the design and operation of complex systems. This course is an application-oriented introduction to (systems) optimization. It seeks to:
Motivate the use of optimization models to support managers and engineers in a wide variety of decision making situations;
Sho
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- management
- system optimization
- distribution
- production planning
- supply chain managment
- scheduling
- inventory
- scheduling
- inventory
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This course is designed to introduce first-year MBA students to the fundamental quantitative techniques of using data to make informed management decisions. In particular, the course focuses on various ways of modeling, or thinking structurally about, decision problems in order to enhance decision-making skills. Topics include decision ana
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- management
- decision analysis
- discrete probability distributions
- continuous probability distributions
- normal probability distribution
- statistical sampling
- regression models
- linear optimization
- nonlinear optimization
- discrete optimization
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Data that has relevance for managerial decisions is accumulating at an incredible rate due to a host of technological advances. Electronic data capture has become inexpensive and ubiquitous as a by-product of innovations such as the internet, e-commerce, electronic banking, point-of-sale devices, bar-code readers, and intelligent machines.
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- management
- data warehouses
- internet
- e-commerce
- electronic banking
- point-of-sale devices
- bar-code readers
- intelligent machines
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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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Communicating With Data has a distinctive structure and content, combining fundamental quantitative techniques of using data to make informed management decisions with illustrations of how real decision makers, even highly trained professionals, fall prey to errors and biases in their understanding. We present the fundamental concepts under
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- management
- quantitative
- data analysis
- graphs
- charts
- factual decisions
- statistics
- communication
- fact-based
- information analysis
- spreadsheets
- models
- probability
- decision analysis
- regression
- simulation
- linear
- nonlinear
- optimization
- data
- analysis
- marketing
- finance
- operations management
- strategy
- operations
- management
- diagrams
- for
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One objective of 15.066J is to introduce modeling, optimization and simulation, as it applies to the study and analysis of manufacturing systems for decision support. The introduction of optimization models and algorithms provide a framework to think about a wide range of issues that arise in manufacturing systems. The second objective is t
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- management
- modeling
- optimization
- simulation
- manufacturing systems
- decision making
- decision support
- probabilistic simulation
- designing manufacturing systems
- operations management
- linear programming
- sensitivity analysis
- network flow problems
- non-linear programming
- lagrange multipliers
- integer programming
- discrete-event simulation
- heurist
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This course is centered on twelve negotiation exercises that simulate competitive business situations. Specific topics covered include distributive bargaining (split the pie!), mixed motive bargaining (several issues at stake) with two and with more than two parties, auctions and fair division. Ethical dilemmas in negotiation are discussed
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- management
- negotiation
- distributive bargaining
- ethics
- dispute resolution
- decision making
- fair division
- bidding
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The class covers the analysis and modeling of stochastic processes. Topics include measure theoretic probability, martingales, filtration, and stopping theorems, elements of large deviations theory, Brownian motion and reflected Brownian motion, stochastic integration and Ito calculus and functional limit theorems. In addition, the class wi
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- management
- analysis
- modeling
- stochastic processes
- theoretic probability
- martingales
- filtration
- stopping theorems
- large deviations theory
- brownian motion
- reflected brownian motion
- stochastic integration
- ito calculus
- functional limit theorems
- applications
- finance theory
- insurance
- queueing
- inventory models
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This class deals with the modeling and analysis of queueing systems, with applications in communications, manufacturing, computers, call centers, service industries and transportation. Topics include birth-death processes and simple Markovian queues, networks of queues and product form networks, single and multi-server queues, multi-class q
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- management
- modeling
- queueing
- queues
- queueing systems
- communications
- manufacturing
- computers
- call centers
- service industries
- transportation
- applications
- birth-death processes
- markovian queues
- networks
- single-server
- multi-server
- multi-class queueing
- fluid models
- adversarial queueing
- heavy-traffic theory
- diffusion approximations
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This course is an introduction to statistical data analysis. Topics are chosen from applied probability, sampling, estimation, hypothesis testing, linear regression, analysis of variance, categorical data analysis, and nonparametric statistics.
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- management
- statistics
- data analysis
- multiple regression
- analysis of variance
- multivariate analysis
- data mining
- probability
- collecting data
- sampling distributions
- inference
- linear regression
- anova
- chi-square test
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