During our 3rd week, we considered the implications of technology adoption from a strategic standpoint (material in chapter 2) and started used analytics to make sense of topics covered in Chapter 2. We have seen how we can leverage confidence interval analysis and ROA decomposition to visualize/compare two firms following different business strategy.
Topics and Readings for Week 4
There is no lecture this week (Victoria Day).
Seminar: We will continue leveraging accounting data to understand business strategy, industry structure, and implications for competitive position. I have prepared some notes that will help you understand the logic/functions used for the ROA decomposition. The notes are available on Learn Week 4.
We will leverage accounting data to generate proxies for industry structure and use this to establish the effect of industry structure on profitability.
Assignments for Week 4
The fourth online quiz will be a based on Chapter 2 and material from the seminar. The quiz will be available on Friday at 12:30 pm.
