Teaching

Healthcare Management

I co-chair this six day course at IIM Ahmedabad for industry executives. The course covers the latest topics in management, aimed at the healthcare sector.

EdTech

The education sector is being transformed by technology. Technology has allowed new pedagogical approaches, permitted greater personalization than ever before, and facilitated delivery at unprecedented scale. Yet open questions remain about EdTech – such as who should EdTech target, what should the right technologies be, what kinds of organization forms might be appropriate, and how to finance, regulate and staff the sector. This course discusses the state of the sunrise EdTech sector in India and globally, strategies to improve the quality and reach of the sector, and what kinds of entrepreneurial and research opportunities might exist for students.

Over 10 sessions, we gain a better factual understanding of how technology is used in the education sector. We examine players such as startups, schools, governments and tech developers, and their strengths and weaknesses. With this understanding, an important objective is to develop thoughtful business plans for entrepreneurs, and regulations to encourage positive development of the sector.

The classroom pedagogy is a combination of case study discussion and lectures. This pedagogical style only works if students arrive prepared for each class – having read the material, with questions and ideas for discussion. Of course, we try to maximize using technology in delivering education in the course!

Indian Economy

This is a 6 session introductory course on the vast Indian economy, covering topics that the instructor feels might be interesting to participants. We use a case-based methodology to discuss modern dilemmas that the economy faces, and debate approaches that an “economy manager” could take in improving equitable growth within the economy.

Information Economics

This 20 hour, 10 session MBA elective course applies game theory and information theory to business and policy settings. Topics include asymmetric information, information search, information cascades, auctions and market design.

Microeconomics

This 25 session MBA core course introduces the principles of microeconomics and their applications, assuming students have no prior knowledge of economics.

Organizational Economics

This 20 session course is taught as an elective to PhD students from economics and other management disciplines. The course introduces the principal-agent framework and design of incentives (explicit and implicit) to increase the productivity of workers in organizations. Both theoretical and empirical literature is discussed, with a focus on open questions that students could explore as they begin dissertation writing. Prior training in PhD-level microeconomics and econometrics is assumed.

Course outline

Health Economics

This 15 session MBA elective uses economics lens to examine the healthcare sector, including topics such as public health, primary and tertiary care, public versus private provision of healthcare, productivity of personnel and operations, and third-party financing of healthcare provision.

Managerial Economics

This 20 hour, 10 session MBA core course introduces the principles of economics and their applications, assuming students have no prior knowledge of economics.

Economic Data and Program Analysis

This 10 hour, 5 session course is targeted at graduate public policy students, and introduces basic data collection and statistical analysis. Topics include primary data collection, sampling, summarizing data, and designing evaluations of public programs.

Course outline

Links

A video about my mathematics professor Annalisa Crannell