TERM: Winter 2004/2005

COURSE #:  Mec 441

SECTION: 61 and 62

COURSE NAME: Industrial Structure and Competitive Strategy

INSTRUCTOR:  Mark Satterthwaite

CASEPACK - YES or NO?:  Yes

FIRST ASSIGNMENT: Reading: Scott-Morton (1999), Why economics has been fruitful for strategy.  Shapiro and Varian  (1999),  Networks and positive feedback.  Case:  Nintendo Co., Inc.  Discussion questions for the case are in the packet and on the course’s Blackboard site.  Please come to class prepared to participate.

By mid-September all materials for week one (excepting the Shapiro and Varian reading) will be on my “course page”  at: 

          http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/satterthwaite/htm/coursepg.htm

Before coming to class please check this page or the Blackboard site for any current clippings that I may have posted.

IS ATTENDANCE AT FIRST CLASS MANDATORY – YES OR NO?:  No

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Fall 2004/2005

COURSE #:

MECN-430

SECTION:

81

COURSE NAME:

Microeconomic Analysis

INSTRUCTOR:

Adam Galambos

CASEPACK - YES or NO?:   Yes

FIRST ASSIGNMENT: Please read the following (all found in the case packet):

1.       Besanko, D., and R. Braeutigam, Intermediate Microeconomics: An Integrated Approach, Chapter 2, Section 2.1.

2.       Besanko and Braeutigam, Mathematical Appendix, Sections A1-A5 only.

3.       Al-Najjar, N. and D. Besanko, “Note on the Microeconomics of Cost.”

4.       (Optional) McTeer, Jr., R.D., “The Dismal Science? Hardly!,” Wall Street Journal (June 4, 2003).

5.      (Optional) Seligman, D., “Of Mice and Economics,” Forbes (August 24, 1998), p. 24.

6.       The Aluminum Industry in 1994 (HBS 9-799-129)

7.       Aluminum Smelting in South Africa: Alusaf’s Hillside Project (HBS 9-799-130)

IS ATTENDANCE AT FIRST CLASS MANDATORY – YES OR NO?: Yes

1.  TEXT - REQUIRED or RECOMMENDED?: Required

AUTHOR: David Besanko and Ronald R. Braeutigam

PUBLISHER: John Wiley

TITLE: Microeconomics – An Integrated Approach

ED./DATE: 1^st ed., 2001

TERM: Fall 2004/2005

COURSE #: MECN450

SECTION: 81

COURSE NAME: Macroeconomics for Management

INSTRUCTOR: Eberly

CASEPACK - YES or NO?: yes

FIRST ASSIGNMENT: see the course web site

IS ATTENDANCE AT FIRST CLASS MANDATORY – YES OR NO?: no

1.  TEXT - REQUIRED or RECOMMENDED?: Required

AUTHOR: Abel and Bernanke

PUBLISHER: Pearson, Addison-Wesley

TITLE: Macroeconomics

ED./DATE: 5^th edition, 2005

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