Game Theory for Strategic Advantage
MIT Sloan's course on applying game theory to managerial decisions. Topics include reasoning about strategies and opponents, strategic commitment, reputation and seemingly irrational actions, brinkmanship and negotiation tactics, auction design, and the structuring of markets and contests. The course connects these frameworks to real business situations across different industries, covering decisions both inside firms and in competitive markets between them. Materials on MIT OpenCourseWare typically include lecture notes, readings, and assignments used in the original Sloan School classroom course, offered free of charge with no certificate attached. Aimed at students who already have some grounding in economics or strategy, it treats negotiation and competition as problems with identifiable strategic logic rather than as matters of intuition alone.