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.

著名營運管理學者John R. Birge教授12月15日為香港城市大學（城大）高等研究院主持傑出講座。Birge教授指出，在壟斷定價的情況下，機構通過優化定價，明白需求與改變定價的幅度必須夠高，以確保完全掌握如何逐漸改變定價。