ECON 106S

Competitive Strategy

Economics · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

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Examination of competitive strategy and competitive advantage using game theoretic models and case studies. Topics include economics of scale, network effects, switching costs, and platform markets. Written final project and presentation required.

P/NP or letter grading.

When it runs

Spring 2026
Spring 2027

Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.

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Requisites

Official UCLA wording
Enforced requisites: courses 11, 101. Enforced corequisite: course 106SL.

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Requires

Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.

ECON 106S

ECON 11Microeconomic Theory
- ECON 1Principles of Economics
- MATH 31ADifferential and Integral Calculus
  - MATH 1Precalculus
- MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Series

Unlocks

What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.

ECON 106S

ECON 106SLCompetitive Strategy Laboratory
- ECON 106SCompetitive Strategyanother path to it

1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 2 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.