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Industrial Organization: Strategy and Competition in Business
Description Industrial Organization is the area of economics that studies the markets as institutions, the state of competition and strategic interaction among firms, the industrial policy and the business decisions firms make within the market framework. The course looks at the markets from three different perspectives: the economic theory, the applied business perspective and the…
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Competitive Strategy
Description In this six-module course, you will learn how businesses and organizations behave in situations in which strategic decisions are interdependent, i.e. where my actions affect my competitors’ profits and vice versa. Using the basic tools of game theory, we will analyse how businesses choose strategies to attain competitive advantage. This course is also available…
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Advanced Valuation and Strategy – M&A, Private Equity, and Venture Capital
Description Hi and welcome to this course! Would you like to learn about the latest valuation methods that may help you to make better business decisions? Then ‘Advanced Valuation and Strategy – M&A, Private Equity, and Venture Capital’ by Erasmus University Rotterdam is the right course for you! This course is helpful for executives that…
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Transmedia Storytelling: Narrative worlds, emerging technologies, and global audiences
Description Transmedia storytelling is the practice of designing, sharing, and participating in a cohesive story experience across multiple traditional and digital delivery platforms – for entertainment, advertising and marketing, or social change. Have you ever read a book, seen a movie, watched a television show, or played a game that centred around different aspects of…
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Ecosystem Services: a Method for Sustainable Development
Description Ecosystem services are a way of thinking about – and evaluating – the goods and services provided by nature that contribute to the well-being of humans. This MOOC will cover scientific (technical), economic, and socio-political dimensions of the concept through a mix of theory, case-studies, interviews with specialists and a serious-game. By the end…
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Combinatorics and Probability
Description Counting is one of the basic mathematically related tasks we encounter on a day to day basis. The main question here is the following. If we need to count something, can we do anything better than just counting all objects one by one? Do we need to create a list of all phone numbers…
