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Customer Insights
Venkatesan, Rajkumar; Kim, TamiExercise DARDEN-M-1013-EMarketingIn this set of three exercises, students are cast in the role of marketing manager of one of three product categories. They must choose a specific brand in their category and use research trend tools and Google Ads Keyword Planner to explore and analyze consumer demand, identify customer segments, research product features, identify competitors, and, finally, choose paid-search keywords. The exercises culminate in a presentation using the PowerPo...Starting at €8.20
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Customer Insights
Venkatesan, Rajkumar; Kim, TamiExercise DARDEN-M-1013MarketingIn this set of three exercises, students are cast in the role of marketing manager of one of three product categories. They must choose a specific brand in their category and use research trend tools and Google Ads Keyword Planner to explore and analyze consumer demand, identify customer segments, research product features, identify competitors, and, finally, choose paid-search keywords. The exercises culminate in a presentation using the PowerPo...Starting at €8.20
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Salty Snacks
John DawesExercise IVEY-9B10A015-EMarketingThe Salty Snacks case is a data analysis exercise using Excel. The case uses real data from a consumer goods panel. It presents the student with a table of purchase duplications for a set of salty snack brands, and the student's task is to identify the competitive structure of the market, that is, which brands compete more intensely with each other. The task is similar to what brand managers in consumer goods companies face on a regular basis. Th...Starting at €8.20
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Analyzing the Success of “Retailers”
Neil Bendle; Xin (Shane) WangExercise IVEY-9B15A045-EMarketingKelsey, a newly minted MBA hired by a firm that provides analysis of companies, has been given a task to present an assessment of six very different firms described by her manager as “retailers.” She has been given the performance details of these companies and is expected to quickly analyze the metrics related to the firms’ performance, such as return on assets, inventory turns and staff productivity. Her manager also wants her to assess and com...Starting at €8.20
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Quick Mechanic Outlets
Oliver, XavierExercise ME-5-EMarketingIn a market where consumers do not have any preferences, a company is considering its future, convinced that the only way it can survive is either by lowering prices further or creating a story that will be transmitted from one customer to the next. It will therefore have to get workers, suppliers and users involved in a project that is bigger than that of a chain of quick repair shops.Starting at €8.20
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FilmCast: A Conjoint Analysis Exercise
Srini Krishnamoorthy, Kyle MacleanExercise IVEY-W28489-EDecision Analysis, MarketingMaya Fonseca, the marketing analyst for video streaming service FilmCast, and her colleague Rupert Cruz had to interpret the results of a conjoint analysis conducted by their company. FilmCast was a large company, competing against Videosource and Webflickstream. The marketing analysts were debating whether it made sense to lower the price of their services and if the conjoint analysis results supported this idea.Starting at €8.20
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The Indian Premier League: Gauging Player Performance
Soumya Roy; Soumyadeep Kundu; Dipayan RoyExercise IVEY-W25528-EDecision Analysis, MarketingIn May 2019, a senior analyst and blogger for a market research firm decided to analyze the performance and pay of various top-rated cricket players in the Indian Premier League. Teams usually spent millions of dollars acquiring players through auctions, and on coaches and other key personnel, as well as promotional campaigns. The analyst had started following the player auctions, where bids on some players had run into millions of US dollars. He...Starting at €8.20
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Apple Stores: A profound change in model
Oliver, XavierExercise ME-4-EMarketingWhen Apple decided to open its own stores it went from being a cult brand to becoming an object of desire and a shopping experience. Its stores offer something no one had ever offered before: support at all levels. The training courses and Genius Bar are free services that mean the stores are always full and now sell more per square meter than any other store in the world.Starting at €8.20
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10 Marketing Scenarios
Cian, LucaExercise DARDEN-M-1010-EMarketingThis exercise aims to provide a rich discussion around marketing research. Specifically, this exercise presents 10 mini-scenarios that could be resolved with proper marketing research techniques. This exercise can be used as a midterm exam or an in-class exercise to summarize and discuss different marketing research techniques, along with their pros and cons.Starting at €8.20
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The Power of Persuasion: An Exercise in Creating Persuasive Advertising
Michael Parent; Leyland Pitt; Stacey MorrisonExercise IVEY-9B09A001-EMarketingDo subliminal cues have an effect on behaviour? This question is at the heart of many debates in advertising. In this exercise, students can determine, through their own experience, the impact of subconscious cues on their decisions. In this simulation, the instructor places a number of specific cues throughout the building. Students, in turn, are tasked with creating an advertising poster for a chain of children's play centres. Inevitably, their...Starting at €8.20