Courses Taken by Michael (Xiaoquan) Zhang


Fall Term 2000-2001

Course(s): 15 - Management Doctoral

Subject Number Units Instructor Course Name Additional Info
14.121 6 Frank Fisher Microeconomic Theory Firm Theory, Consumer Theory, Monoply
14.122 6 Glenn Ellison Game Theory Nash Equilibium, Sub-game Perfect Nash Equilibrium, Bayesian Nash Equilibrium, Perfect Bayesian Equilibrium
14.381 12 Sarah Ellison & Guido Kersteiner Statistic Methods for Economics Probability, Statistical Inference
15.341 12 John Caroll Individual, Group, Organization Ph.D. seminar of organizational studies


Spring Term 2000-2001

Course(s):15 - Management Doctoral

Subject Number Units Instructor Course Name Additional Info
14.124 6 Bengt Holmstrom Information Economics and Contract Theory Risk Aversion, Stochastic Dominance, Moral Hazard, Adverse Selection, Mechanism Design
15.575 12 Erik Brynjolfsson
Guests: Lorin Hitt;  
Dale Jorgensen; Al Roth; Dan Aireiley; Hal Varian; Goolsby; Frank Levy; Marshal Van Allstyn
Research Seminar on Information Technology and Organizations: Economic Perspectives Selected readings from topics of: Search and Competition; IT and Work Organization; Pricing Information; Information Economy Knowledge Work; IT and Productivity; Inter-Organizational Information Systems; Value-added partnerships; Online Auction, etc.
15.580 9 Wanda Orlikowski and JoAnne Yates Research Seminar on Information Technology and Organizations: Organizational Perspectives Managing in the Virtual World; E-lancer; Virtual Community; Online Teamwork
18.100B 12 Alexandra Ionescu Real Analysis Numbers, Metric Spaces, Connectivity, Sets, Defferentiability, Intergrability, Riemann Integral



Fall Term 2001-2002

Course(s):15 - Management Doctoral

Subject Number Units Instructor Course Name Additional Info
14.271 12 Sara and Glenn Ellison
Jean Tirole (Guest)
Industrial Organization Theory of the firm, Monopoly Pricing, Durable Goods, Price discrimination, Static Competition and Models of Differentiation, Search, Dynamic Competition, Firm Conduct, Empirical models of Demand, Entry, Strategic Investment, Networks, Asymmetric Information, Advertising, Auctions, Patents, Diffussion of Technology, Managerial Incentives.
6.251 12 Eric Feron Introduction to Mathematic Optimization Formulations, Geometry, Simplex Method, Duality Theory, Sensitivity Analysis, Large scale optimization, Network Flows, Ellipsoid method, Interior Point Methods, Semidefinite optimization descrete optimization
15.564 12 Benjamin Grosof Information Technology Information Technology helps students understand technical concepts underlying current and future developments in information technology. There will be a special emphasis on networks and distributed computing. Students will also gain some hands-on exposure to powerful, high-level tools for making computers do amazing things, without the need for conventional programming languages.
15.093 12 Dimitris J Bertsimas, Georgia Perakis  Optimization Methods The course takes a unified view of optimization and covers the main areas of application and the main optimization algorithms. It covers the following topics:
1. Linear Optimization (Lec. 1-7)
2. Network Flows (Lec. 8-9)
3. Discrete Optimization (Lec. 10-14)
4. Dynamic Optimization (Lec. 15-16)
5. Nonlinear Optimization (Lec. 17-25)
ECON2040
Harvard B-School
12
Alvin Roth
Experimental Economics An introduction to experimental economics, its methods, and some of the major subject areas that have been addressed by laboratory experiments. Effort is made to concentrate on a series of experiments, in order to see how experiments build on one another and allow researchers with different theoretical dispositions to narrow the range of potential disagreement. 



Spring Term 2002

Course(s):15 - Management Doctoral

Subject Number Units Instructor Course Name Additional Info
14.272 12 Paul Joskow and Nancy Rose
Industrial Organization II Mergers, Vertical Integration, regulations in electricity and telecommunication industries, ...
15.576 12 Wanda Orlikowski Speciail Seminar in IT: Social perspectives Philosophical assumptions, research assumptions, theoretical domain, empirical research, ...
14.382 12 Victor Chernozhuv & Jerry Hausman Econometrics Theoretical stuffs



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