MG4A5      Half Unit
Behavioural Strategy

This information is for the 2025/26 session.

Course Convenor

Dr Veronica Rappoport-Redondo

Availability

This course is compulsory on the MSc in Management (1 Year Programme) and MSc in Management and Strategy. This course is not available as an outside option to students on other programmes.

Course content

The objective of this course is to provide students with a critical appreciation of economics and game theory relevant for strategic management. This course will help students to understand how managers in the real world ought to read situations from an economic and strategic angle. The course emphasises the participation of firms in global markets, both for inputs of production as for output sales. Attention will be given to conceptual underpinnings.

Teaching

30 hours of seminars in the Autumn Term.

This course has a reading week in Week 6 of Autumn Term.

In its Ethics Code, LSE upholds a commitment to intellectual freedom. This means we will protect the freedom of expression of our students and staff and the right to engage in healthy debate in the classroom.

Formative assessment

Students will be given formative feedback on group work undertaken during the weekly seminars.

 

Indicative reading

Reading material will be provided via Moodle.

Assessment

Exam (85%), duration: 120 Minutes in the January exam period

Course participation (15%)

For detailed assessment information, including all deadlines and timings, please see the relevant course Moodle page. Assessment timings will be available at the start of each term.


Key facts

Department: Management

Course Study Period: Autumn Term

Unit value: Half unit

FHEQ Level: Level 7

CEFR Level: Null

Total students 2024/25: 77

Average class size 2024/25: 39

Controlled access 2024/25: No
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Personal development skills

  • Team working
  • Application of numeracy skills
  • Commercial awareness