What is covered, week by week, and which topics each lecture draws on.
Three lectures across the semester: the opening argument for why closures are worth studying, a week 6 detour through methods borrowed from other fields, and a week 10 warning about the bias built into this whole exercise.
Why study the ones that failed
Opening lecture — what a closed restaurant can teach that a surviving one can't, and why this course reads failure instead of success.
Week 1 · 28 July 2026
Borrowing a method that wasn't built for restaurants
Week 6 — plane-crash investigation, product post-mortems and clinical autopsy, and what a restaurant closure can borrow from each.
Week 6 · 31 August 2026
When the autopsy lies
Week 10 — survivorship bias, selection bias, and the restaurants this whole method is structurally unable to see.
Week 10 · 28 September 2026