Yiangos Papanastasiou

This course teaches students to model and analyze agent behavior and incentives in operational settings. Topics include strategic consumer behavior (in pricing and revenue management), autonomous supplier behavior (in two-sided marketplaces), contract theory (in supply chain management), information transmission (in platform design), and competition (in manufacturing and product placement).

The ever-increasing capacity of computers to analyze data and the explosion of the amount of data available have resulted in an increase role for data analysis as an aid to business decision-making. This course exposes the student to most important ideas and methods relevant for data analysis in a business context. Emphasizing practical applications to real problems, the course covers the following topics: sampling, descriptive statistics, probability distributions, and regression analysis. Required for MBA.