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C) Prerequisite(s): MKTG 101 or permission of instructor.
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C) Berger. Prerequisite(s): Marketing 101 and 211 are recommended, but not required . Why do some products catch on and achieve huge popularity while others fail? Why do some behaviors spread lik e wildfire while other languish? How do certain ideas seem to stick in memory while others disappear the minute yo u hear them? More broadly, what factors lead to trends, social contagion, and social epidemics ? This course looks at these and other topics as it examines how products, ideas, and behaviors catch on and become popular. Marketers want their product to be popular, organizations want their social change initiative to catch onl and entrepreneurs want their ideas to stick. This course will provide insight into the factors underlying these dynamimcs. To study these issues, students will read and discuss academic research from Psychology, Sociology, Economics, and Marketing (as well as other disciplines). Along the way, the course will touch on four main aspects:(1) Characteristics of products, ideas, and behaviors that lead them to be successful; (2) Intrapersonal processes, or aspects of individual psychology that influence what things are successful; (3) Interpersonal processes, or how interactions between individuals drive success; (4) Social networks, or how patterns of social ties influlence success.
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1) to familiarize students with the strategies, frameworks, conceptual tools, and types of marketing research that are considered best practices in the development of new products and (2) to give students the opportunity to apply some of these ideas and methods in the evaluation of a specific product concept , customizing the learning experience to their own needs and interests .
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2) Competitors' behaviors are formally taken into account. (3) Long-term marketing advantages are sought. (4) Profit and other financial consequences are considered.
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e.g., direct marketing, alternative media, and personal selling) segmentation, and targeted marketing. Students will prepare a marketing plan for an entrepreneurial organization of their choice, possibly for a new venture they are considering.
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MKTG786) Business to Business Marketing. (M) Prerequisite(s): MKTG
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e.g., the roles of products and brands, prices, advertising, competitive strategies, etc.) and assess current knowledge and controversies surrounding those factors. There is also a focus on current metrics for assessing
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learning, memory and categorization), attitude theory, persuasion, affect and social influence. The course draws from the literature in marketing, psychology and economics. The course will enable students to conceptualize, operationalize, and develop research ideas. Therefore, the focus is on understanding theoretical and methodological approaches to various aspects of consumer behavior, as well as advancing this knowledge by developing testable hypotheses and theoretical perspectives that build on the current knowledge base.
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