A renowned scholar in operations management delivered a distinguished lecture held by the Institute for Advanced Study at City University of Hong Kong on 15 December. In the monopoly pricing situation, firms optimally vary prices to learn that demand and variation must be sufficiently high to ensure complete asymptotic learning, according to Professor Birge.

著名营运管理学者John R. Birge教授12月15日为香港城市大学（城大）高等研究院主持杰出讲座。Birge教授指出，在垄断定价的情况下，机构通过优化定价，明白需求与改变定价的幅度必须够高，以确保完全掌握如何逐渐改变定价。