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Strategic Corporate Management
Professor Robert A.
Miller ramiller@cmu.edu
Teaching Assistant Pei Xue pxue@andrew.cmu.edu |
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0.1 Instructions for
Installing/Uninstalling ComLabGames for Windows 0.2 Instructions for
Installing ComLabGames for macOS 0.3 Instructions for running ComLabGames outside of CMU campus/ from home A.
FRAMING STRATEGIC ISSUES WEEK 1 Monday
October 20 lecture: · Relaxing the team premise of six sigma ·
The prisoner’s dilemma ·
Best replies and Nash equilibrium ·
The empirical distribution ·
Product innovation Monday
October 20 through Sunday October 26 video
clips 1.2
Upstream versus downstream rivalry (video) 1.3
Playing games in strategic form (video) 1.4
Designing games in strategic form (video) 1.5
Saving and testing games (video) 1.6
Conducting an experiment (video) Games
used in this portion of the course Sunday
October 26 Assignment 1 is due at 11:00PM Pacific (9 points). Solutions to Assignment 1 ·
Different payoffs in the prisoner’s dilemma
(right
click to save) ·
Superjumbo
(right
click to save) WEEK 2 Monday
October 27 lecture: ·
Elements of games ·
Cola wars ·
Perfect information games ·
Simultaneous move games ·
Changing the information set Monday
October 27 through Sunday November 2 video clips 2.2 Just in time 2.3 The empirical distribution in extensive form games (video) 2.4 Best replies to empirical distributions in extensive form games (video) 2.5 Playing games in extensive form 2.6 Designing games in extensive form Games
used in this portion of the course Sunday
November 2 Assignment 2 is due at 11:00PM Pacific (9 points). Solutions to Assignment 2 ·
Regional competition (right click to
save) ·
First mover advantage (right click to save) ·
Simultaneous decision making by rivals WEEK 3 Monday
November 3 lecture: 3. Deriving the Strategic from the Extensive Form ·
Strategies versus moves ·
Bottling wine ·
Defining strategies ·
Rivals as a source of information · The strategic form of
perfect information games Monday
November 3 through Sunday November 9
video clips 3.1 Formal partnership or informal alliance
(video) 3.2 Predators: The enemy of my enemy is my friend (video) 3.3 Stage games Games used in this portion of the course Sunday
November 9 Assignment 3 is due at 11:00PM Pacific (9 points). Solutions to Assignment 3 ·
Differential versus generic promotion (right click to save) ·
The value of independent research (right click to save) ·
Industrial dispute (right click to
save) B. DISSECTING
STRATEGIC INTERACTIONS WEEK 4 Monday
November 10 lecture: 4. The Logic of Rational Thought · Dominant strategies:
Acquiring Federated Stores ·
Iterative dominance: Walmart and Kmart Monday
November 10 through Sunday November 16 video clips 4.1 Solving predators with the strategic form 4.2 Dominant strategies (video) 4.3 Dominated strategies (video) 4.4 Iterative dominance defined (video) Games used in this portion of the course Sunday
November 16 Assignment 4 is due at 11:00PM Pacific (9 points). Solutions to Assignment 4 ·
Overseeing asset management (right click to
save) ·
Acquisition (right click to save) WEEK 5 Monday
November 17 lecture: · A simple illustration
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Barriers to entry ·
Mixed versus pure strategies Monday
November 17 through Sunday November 23 video clips 5.1 Mixtures revealing dominance (video) 5.2 The existence of NE (video) Games used in the portion of the course Sunday
November 23 Assignment 5 is due at 11:00PM Pacific (9 points). Solutions to Assignment 5 ·
Rust
belt management (right click to save) · Taxing small
businesses ·
Solving the taxation game C. THE PROJECT WEEK 6 Monday
December 1 lecture: 6. Designing and Solving Games Games used in the portion of the course Friday December 5
Part
A of the Project is due
at 11:00PM Pacific (15 points). Monday
December 1 through Sunday December 7 video
clips 6.1 Retrieving and exporting output from experiments Sunday December 7 Slides
and game for Part B of
the Project are due at 11:00PM Pacific (10 points). WEEK 7 Monday
December 8 session: 7.
Project Presentations . . . a longer
session . . . approximately 2 hours Monday
December 15 Part
C of the Project is due
at 11:00PM Pacific (15 points). The remaining 15
points come from: Class
participation throughout course (5 points) Participation
in experimental portions of the assignments (5 points) Performance
as experimental subjects in projects (5 points) |