Economic Analysis & Policy Group

Spring 2007 EAP Courses

Full-time MBA Program

Course Name	Course Description
Competative and Corporate Strategy	The purpose of Competitive Strategy is to enable students to design profitable strategies that are responsive to the characteristics of the firm and the nature of competition in the industry or market.
Competative and Corporate Strategy - 2 Unit Version	Competitive and Corporate Strategy is a course in management. It is designed to acquaint the student with delineation of business policy by the firm, and the development and implementation of a business strategy that will allow the firm to achieve its goals and objectives.
Managerial Decisions in Regulated Industries	Drawing on the tools of economics and finance, we study the business and public policy issues that these changes have raised in energy markets. Topics include the development and effect of organized spot, futures, and derivative markets in energy; the political economy of deregulation; climate change, environmental impacts and policies related to energy production and use; privatization of publicly owned energy assets; market power and antitrust; and the transportation and storage of energy commodities.
Game Theory	This course is a survey of the main ideas and techniques of game-theoreticanalysis related to competitive strategy, bargaining, conflict, and negotiation. As such, the course emphasizes the identification and analysis of archetypal strategic situations frequently occurring in bargaining situations.
Macroeconomics in the Global Economy	This course is oriented towards examining real world puzzles in domestic and international macroeconomic events and policies. We will construct simple models to analyze these puzzles and, hopefully, shed light on the interactions of the various sectors of the economy that contribute to this behavior. The goal of this course is to enable you to analyze macroeconomic phenomena in a structured manner, and to express this analysis in a coherent way.

Evening & Weekend MBA Program

Course Name	Course Description
Competative Strategy	The purpose of Competitive Strategy is to enable students to design profitable strategies that are responsive to the characteristics of the firm and the nature of competition in the industry or market. In particular, the course will address the following major questions: How do fundamental economic characteristics of an industry affect a company's ability to make profits? How can a company produce long-run economic profits? Or, in other words, how can a company generate value, and how can it capture that value as profit? What are the legal constraints on the methods a company uses in pursuit of profit? What strategy choices should a company make when its profitability and its competitor's profitability are affected by each other's choices? How should a company choose the scope of its activities? How can a company profitably enter new markets, and how can it preserve profitability in the face of entry into its existing markets? How does the external environment of the firm affect the optimal internal organization of the firm? How does a firm develop know-how that is unique and difficult for competitors to replicate?
Macroeconomics in the Global Economy	See Full-time program description.
Game Theory	See Full-time program description
Managerial Decisions in Regulated Industries	See Full-time program description

Executive MBA Program

Course Name	Course Description
Competitive and Corporate Strategy	See Full-time program description

Undergraduate Program

Course Name	Course Description
Microeconomic Analysis for Business Decisions	In this course we will learn how aspects of various macroeconomies work. In doing so, we will examine how consumer and business practices affect and are affected by, the current condition and outlook for the future of the U.S. and other economies. We will analyze how governments' monetary, fiscal, and trade policies affect, and are affected by, macroeconomic conditions.
Strategic Planning	As the Capstone Course for the Haas Undergraduate Program, this course has been carefully designed to provide you with the following: A thorough introduction to those concepts and techniques that is necessary for the design and implementation of strategies for the successful "organization". These concepts and techniques can be applied to "organizations" which operate in the private(market) and/or public(government) sectors of an economy. The operating environment for the "organization" in this course may be characterized as dynamic, global, strategic and uncertain. An opportunity to strengthen your command of the core curriculum for the Haas Undergraduate Curriculum. An opportunity to strengthen your command of the additional knowledge and skills you have developed within the Haas School of Business as well as other areas of your education and/or work experience including, but not limited to, computer, interpersonal/team and multi-media presentation skills. An important opportunity to enhance your work experience by forming a small consulting team with your class colleagues for the purpose of providing substantial strategic planning assistance to a real "organization" from the community. You and your consulting team associates will select a real "organization" with assistance from me and a group of outstanding client "organization" coordinators.