The Economics of Information: Strategy, Structure and Pricing

Calendar

SES #	TOPICS	KEY DATES
1	The economics of information
2	Sermo Guest speaker: Dan Palestrant	Sermo one-pager due
3	Differential pricing, signaling and screening
4	Bundling and aggregation	Bundling exercise due
5	Search and competition Guest speaker: Gregg Gordon	Project group lists due
6	Two-sided networks: eBay Guest speaker: Neel Sundaresan	eBay one-pager due
7	Pricing at zero Guest speaker: Chris Anderson	Project proposal due
8	Amazon Guest speaker: Jeff Wilke	Amazon one-pager due
9	Targeted advertising: Google Guest speaker: Hal Varian
10	Measurement, analytics and experimentation
11	The long tail	Project progress report due Long tail one-pager due
12	Deep QA and knowledge work Guest speaker: David Ferrucci
13	Midterm exam
14	Wikipedia
15	Enterprise 2.0 Guest speaker: Andrew McAfee	Project slides due Project option 2 blog post due
16	Open source and innovation Guest speaker: Eugene Lee	Project presentations begin (Ses #16-22)
17	Experimentation, replication and innovation	Experimentation one-pager due
18	Digital advantage
19	Social networks
20	Information analytics Guest speaker: Gary Loveman
21	Student presentations
22	Emerging electronic markets	Emerging electronic markets one-pager due
23	Future of information economy	Project report due