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MGTECON 200: Managerial Economics

This course covers microeconomic concepts relevant to managerial decision-making. Topics may include: demand and supply analysis; consumer demand theory; production theory; price discrimination; perfect competition; partial equilibrium welfare analysis; externalities and public goods; risk aversion and risk sharing; hidden information and market signaling; moral hazard and incentives; rudimentary game theory; reputation and credibility, auctions and transaction cost economics.
Terms: Win | Units: 4

MGTECON 203: Managerial Economics - Accelerated

MGTECON 203 is the accelerated option in microeconomics for 1st year MBA students. It will cover the usual array of topics covered in microeconomics, with an emphasis on topics more useful for students of management. Tentative plans are to "reverse" the usual flow of topics, beginning with the economics of small numbers interactions (using the language of noncooperative game theory and emphasizing the economics of information and transactions costs), moving in the end to markets with large numbers of participants (perfect competition and variants). In comparison with MGTECON 200, less time will be spent in class (and in preparation) on basic problems, and more time will be spent on case studies. Therefore, students choosing this option should be able to do basic problems "on their own." Useful background includes a previous course in microeconomics and/or proficiency at simple differential calculus; either may be sufficient, but students without either should elect 200. A good diagnostic is to read Chapter 3 ("Marginal This and Marginal That") in Kreps, Microeconomics for Managers. If you find this relatively easy, 203 is a good choice. (Students with very strong background in microeconomics should take the Advanced Applications option.) If you find this a struggle, 200 is the right course for you.
Terms: Win | Units: 4 | Repeatable 2 times (up to 8 units total)
Instructors: Kreps, D. (PI)

MGTECON 209: Sloan: Economics

The first portion of this course covers business decision making within the firm; behavior of individual markets reacting to supply and demand forces; consequences of alternative market structures and business policies; and interactions between the public and private sectors. Specific topics include supply and demand analysis, consumer behavior, theory of cost and production, pricing and competition, factor pricing, and the concepts of marginal analysis. The second portion covers the macro, or aggregative, aspects of the economy. Specific topics include national income accounts; the determination of the level of aggregate output, employment, and prices; the monetary system, including the effects of monetary policy; fiscal policy; economic growth; and international monetary economics.
Terms: Aut | Units: 4
Instructors: Flanagan, R. (PI)

MGTECON 300: Growth and Stabilization in the Global Economy

This course gives students the background they need to understand the broad movements in the global economy. Key topics include long-run economic growth, technological change, wage inequality, international trade, interest rates, inflation, exchange rates, and monetary policy. By the end of the course, students should be able to read and understand the discussions of economic issues in The Economist, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, or the Congressional Budget Office.
Terms: Aut, Spr | Units: 4
Instructors: Jones, C. (PI)

MGTECON 330: Economics of Organization

This is an advanced applications economics course that applies recent innovations and high-powered tools to organization and general management. MBA1 students must have a strong background in microeconomics to take the course and should consult with their advisors. The course is appropriate for all MBA2 students. The course objective is to equip managers with an extensive set of analytical and applicable tools for handling the following topics: organization for coordination, designing incentives for moral hazard, monitoring and private information, applications to scope, scale, global management and mergers, principles for allocating decision power, managing supplier relations, downstream controls, franchising and alliances, bargaining, repeated interactions and reputation, holdups and strategizing with unawareness. These topics will be covered in a combination of lectures and cases.
Terms: Win | Units: 4
Instructors: Feinberg, Y. (PI)

MGTECON 331: Political Economy of Health Care in the United States

The purpose of this class is to provide students with the economic tools, and the institutional and legal background, to understand how markets for health care products and services work. The class has four parts, consisting of a combination of case studies, lectures, and visits from individuals from the industry: 1) the economic tools: understanding moral hazard and adverse selection; 2) the institutional organization of the health care sector in the US-hospital and physician services markets-integrated delivery systems-managed care-pharmaceutical and medical device industries; 3) public policy issues in health care, medical ethics, regulation of managed care, regulation of pharmaceuticals, reform of Medicare, and coverage of the uninsured; 4) international perspective-how have other countries' health care systems evolved and what can the US learn from their experience. Also listed as Health Research and Policy (HRP) 391.
Terms: Spr | Units: 4

MGTECON 332: Analysis of Costs, Risks, and Benefits of Health Care

For graduate students. The principal evaluative techniques for health care, including utility assessment, cost-effectiveness analysis, cost-benefit analysis, and decision analysis. Emphasis is on the practical application of these techniques. Group project presented at end of quarter. Guest lectures by experts from the medical school, pharmaceutical industry, health care plans, and government.
Terms: Aut | Units: 4

MGTECON 334: The International Economy: Policies and Theory

The objective of this course is to give students an understanding of what international trade policy means for business leaders. To do this students will have to understand the economic forces that determine the patterns and consequences of international trade. We will analyze trade policy tools used by governments (e.g., tariffs, subsidies and quotas), and examine the role of industry and politics at the domestic and global level in applying these tools. This course will combine lecture, case studies and group interaction.
Terms: Spr | Units: 4
Instructors: Bowen, R. (PI)

MGTECON 390: Individual Research (ACCT 390, FINANCE 390, GSBGEN 390, HRMGT 390, MKTG 390, OB 390, OIT 390, POLECON 390, STRAMGT 390)

Need approval from sponsoring faculty member and GSB Registrar.
Last offered: Spring 2007 | Repeatable 3 times (up to 8 units total)

MGTECON 591: Management Practices in Europe, the US and Emerging Markets

The course will review the results from a large management practices project involving the London School of Economics, McKinsey & Company and Stanford. In 2001 McKinsey produced a basic management practice evaluation tool - detailing the 18 key practices in firms - which has been used to evaluate firms in manufacturing, retail, law and the public sector across the US, Europe, Asia and South America. These results provide an insight into the basic management practices around monitoring, targets and talent management that firms adopt around the world, their link to performance, and the reasons for differences in these across countries. This will be supplemented with the results from more recent research with Accenture and the World Bank in India carrying out change-management interventions.nnnThe material will cover the following:nnnScience of Management PracticesnnThe key practices that appear to help determine company performance. A combination of a detailed discussion of the management practice grid, class examples and self-scoring, and results from the research work on 6000 firms. The aim is to teach students a basic management practice evaluation tool that can be used to perform an initial overview of the management practices of any organization.nn nnWhy management practices vary around the worldnnWhat explains why so many firms around the world appear not to be adopting management best practices? The aim is to explain why organizations often are unable to adopt managerial best practices and what types of actions can help to address this.nnnHow firms are differently organized around the worldnnMore recent work has focused on why firms in some countries are very flat with decentralized decision making (US, UK, Canada and Scandinavia) while others are very hierarchical (Southern Europe, China and India). The aim is to use this to illustrate with extensive data and case studies some of the key organizational and cultural differences of firms across countries, and how this helps to explain national performance.nnnInterested students can look at some of the academic, business and media focused output from the research on: http://www.stanford.edu/~nbloom/. There is also a large collection of press clippings covering the work, including from the Economics, New York Times and Wall Street Journal.
Terms: Spr | Units: 2
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