Strategic Business Management - Microeconomics (Coursera)

Strategic Business Management - Microeconomics (Coursera)

This course weds business strategy with the principles of microeconomics. It offers valuable a powerful toolbox together with cases and lessons across all major functions of business, management, from finance, operations management, and marketing to human resource management, organizational behavior, statistics, and, of course, business strategy.

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Syllabus

WEEK 1: Introduction to Microeconomics for Managers
WEEK 2: Supply and Demand
WEEK 3: An Introduction to Consumer Theory
WEEK 4: Production Theory
WEEK 5: Perfect Competition
WEEK 6: Monopoly and Monopolistic Competition
WEEK 7: Oligopoly and Strategic Management
WEEK 8: Strategic Capital Finance
WEEK 9: Land, Labor, and Organizational Behavior
WEEK 10: Public Goods, Externalities, and Income Redistribution
WEEK 11: Finals Week

Note: This course is currently not available.

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