A course in applied microeconomics that focuses on the economics of health and current health policy issues. Students will be asked to complete an empirical analysis of a health policy problem of interest, or a qualitative analysis of such a problem. Skills will be developed through extensive case analysis, role playing, and simulation. Managing Technology and Innovation. Students are guided toward their own individual approaches to solving current business problems under uncertain, ambiguous, and dynamic conditions.
Case analyses and guest speakers help put theory into practice, and to test out solutions.
Students evaluate markets and strategies, functional area integration, leadership, and implementation. This is a course about how to start and grow a business. The first part of the course will concentrate on opportunity evaluation and business plan development. The second part of the course will explore the strategic challenges of managing growth. It extends competitive analysis to a multinational context, analyzing the globalization of markets and the way market factors, technological shifts, governmental policies, and other factors cause a shift in the comparative advantage of firms.