BEE1034 – Economics for Management
• This course aims to help you think about business
problems, using concepts from economics.
• Is it your goal in life to start your own business: the
next Apple or Tesla?
• In your first job out of university, do you aspire to
work in a graduate managerial role?
• Do you think it would be interesting to work as a
market analyst at a stock brokers or finance house?
• Perhaps you would like to work as a journalist, say
for a newspaper like The Economist.
• Then this module may be helpful to you.
,BEE1034 Economics for Management
Lectures by: Professor Ben Zissimos
Office: Streatham Court 0.36
Office hours: 11.30am-1.30pm, Wednesdays
Meetings outside office hours by appointment
Phone 01392 726466
e-mail
, Aim of the Module
• To equip you with a problem-solving approach to
business, using concepts from economics.
• Businesses generally fail, or could be performing
better, because of bad decisions.
• Throughout the module, we will be focusing on
business decisions, by asking three questions.
1. Who is making the bad decision?
2. Do they have enough information to make a good
decision?
3. Do they have the incentive to make a good
decision?
• Answers will suggest ways to fix the problem.
• This course aims to help you think about business
problems, using concepts from economics.
• Is it your goal in life to start your own business: the
next Apple or Tesla?
• In your first job out of university, do you aspire to
work in a graduate managerial role?
• Do you think it would be interesting to work as a
market analyst at a stock brokers or finance house?
• Perhaps you would like to work as a journalist, say
for a newspaper like The Economist.
• Then this module may be helpful to you.
,BEE1034 Economics for Management
Lectures by: Professor Ben Zissimos
Office: Streatham Court 0.36
Office hours: 11.30am-1.30pm, Wednesdays
Meetings outside office hours by appointment
Phone 01392 726466
, Aim of the Module
• To equip you with a problem-solving approach to
business, using concepts from economics.
• Businesses generally fail, or could be performing
better, because of bad decisions.
• Throughout the module, we will be focusing on
business decisions, by asking three questions.
1. Who is making the bad decision?
2. Do they have enough information to make a good
decision?
3. Do they have the incentive to make a good
decision?
• Answers will suggest ways to fix the problem.
