MBA201

MBA201A is "Economic Analysis for Business Decisions", a required and foundational 1st year MBA course at the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley. MBA201A is affectionately known as "MBA Micro". I was the GS Instructor for the Blue and Gold cohorts at Haas in the fall of 2010, and won the Earl F. Cheit Teaching Award for my efforts.

About This Page

It was, and still is, my intention to use this page to provide a wiki-book of course notes for MBA201A. However, until I have the time to make this happen, this page will just host the four main handouts for the course. These handouts are missing certain useful material, especially:

• An introduction to the mathematics needed for MBA201A (though some material is in the Monopoly Pricing Handout).
• Notes on second degree price discrimination for both discrete valuations and continous demand (the later was excluded from the teaching material for the 2010 Fall term)
• Example questions for students to try

The Handouts

The handouts are provided in the order that the material was taught. Note that other instructors may teach sections in different orders. To a weak degree the handouts are cummulative. Please inform me of any errors or typos.

The handouts:

• The Option Value Handout (9 pages)
• The Monopoly Pricing Handout (10 pages)
• The Advanced Pricing Handout (14 pages)
• The Game Theory Handout (10 pages)

Copyright

All material posted here is mine (i.e. (c) Ed Egan). This includes not only the text but also the nice looking diagrams. If you are teaching this course and would like access to further material, such as the Mathematica code to generate nice looking P-Q diagrams, please contact me directly.