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Hello everyone and welcome to you all. If you're a future strategist or a business leader or a student and you are a brilliant mind, welcome to this course. Perhaps I should say, not brilliant mind, but beautiful mind. Then you figure out why very shortly. I'm Vishwanath Pingali and I'm a professor of economics at IM Amdavad and I've been teaching in IM Amdavad this course called Game Theory since 2012. God knows by now over the last 12 years. You have to be completed around 25 iterations of this course across our one year, two year MBA programs as well as executive education programs. So, ready to up your game on strategy? Let's dive in. Traditionally, the course on game theory is for people with economics and very serious mathematics background. But here in this course, we are going to develop the art of strategic thinking without necessarily having to rely on mathematical rigor. It is going to be very rigorous, but without the use of mathematics. We will develop a lot of intuitive understanding on what this course is about. Be it how digital markets work, be it how you see lack of cooperation among certain characteristics beat understanding complex worlds of mergers and acquisitions, be it navigating through complex business ideas, this course has got you covered. We will develop scientific rigor to the idea called competition and we will develop. Invokes and how to outweigh your competitor. But wait, game theory is not. As I said about dry thinking and boring numbers. We're going to dive a lot into the behavioral nuances where applicable. As a part of my MBA course at IM Labad, I run a lot of experiments on my students and I've gathered a lot of data over a period of time. Where applicable, I will bring the data for all of you to look at. Imagine you want to acquire a competitive edge in your business, not just from the mathematical standpoint, not just from the reasoning standpoint, but also from the behavioral standpoint. This course covers everything as far as you are concerned. The idea of this course is to tell you how the world around you works and why it works the way it works. So what are you waiting for? Are you ready for a transformative? Johnny.