Darden University of Virginia (USA)
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The Seven Questions of Marketing Strategy
Farris, Paul W.; Parry, Mark E.; Borden, Neil H. Jr.; Venkatesan, Rajkumar; Sharpe, Kathryn M.Technical Note DARDEN-M-0779-EMarketingThis simple model of marketing strategy can provide keys to creating a sustainable competitive advantage. Suitable for MBA and executive formats, this technical note demonstrates that individual marketing strategy concepts are interconnected, which renders the strategic process vulnerable to the political machinations of executives. Evolving customer needs and competitors' proactive efforts to steal market share require a dynamic marketing strate...Starting at €8.20
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The Customer-Focused Growth Project
Moore, Marian Chapman; Urbany, Joel E.Technical Note DARDEN-M-0798-EMarketingThis note guides students or Executive Education participants through an exercise to help identify growth opportunities for their business units. The Customer-Focused Growth Project consists of 10 steps that lead to a vetted growth strategy based on an analysis of the company, a customer (or customer segment), and competitors. Readers work through the first five steps to identify three potential growth ideas. They then follow the remaining five s...Starting at €8.20
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The Evolution of Selling
Cross, TomTechnical Note DARDEN-M-0811-EMarketingAppropriate for marketing classes. This note follows the evolution of selling starting with the skills set forth by Dale Carnigie in the 1950s through the 1970s followed by consultive selling in the 1980s and 1990s and the value-added selling of the 21st century.Starting at €8.20
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Designing Marketing Experiments
Venkatesan, RajkumarTechnical Note DARDEN-M-0839-EMarketingThis technical note is used in Darden's first-year core marketing course as well as in the marketing analytics elective. It could also be used effectively in modules covering the topics of market research, web analytics, or advertising. The note pairs well with the case "Advertising Experiments at the Ohio Art Company" (UVA-M-0752), which includes a student spreadsheet and a teaching note for instructors. Marketing managers must often face the ch...Starting at €8.20
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Logistic Regression
Venkatesan, Rajkumar; Gibbs, SheaTechnical Note DARDEN-M-0859-EMarketingThis technical note presents the reason for using a binomial logic regression in marketing applications. It is used in Darden's "Big Data in Marketing" course elective. The issues surrounding the use of a linear regression model when the dependent variable is a dummy variable are identified. A consumer-utility-based behavioral rationale is presented for the applicability of the binomial logistic regression for modeling dummy variables. Simulated ...Starting at €8.20
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Implementing Marketing Analytics
Farris, Paul W.; Venkatesan, RajkumarTechnical Note DARDEN-M-0869-EMarketingThis note supports cases used in Darden's "Marketing Analytics" course elective. Marketing analytics powered by "big data" holds the promise to transform marketing strategy from a discipline based mostly on intuition to a fact-based decision-making process. Based on interactions with more than 100 executives in conferences, executive education seminars, case study development, and consulting projects, this technical note serves as a road map for ...Starting at €8.20
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Developing a Superior Strategic Marketing Plan
Whitler, Kimberly A.Technical Note DARDEN-M-0890-EMarketingWhile both management and marketing courses detail the importance of having a strategy, there is a dearth of tools available that can help students understand how to create a strategic plan-as well as some of the attributes that make for stronger strategic plans. This technical note describes a tool that can be used to construct a strategic marketing plan. The note helps walk students through the process of constructing a strategic marketing plan...Starting at €8.20
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Social Media Marketing
Murray, Meghan; Dunklin, I.S.; Loftus, MatthewTechnical Note DARDEN-M-0908-EMarketingThis technical note describes the history and benefits of social media marketing and discusses the ways in which it differs from traditional marketing. Seven major social media platforms-Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Pinterest, Snapchat, and WhatsApp-are covered in detail, and the authors outline the different techniques that companies can use with each one to uniquely engage with their customers. This technical note is used in a Darden ...Starting at €8.20
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Build Your Brand with Social Media: How to Get Started Using Twitter
Whitler, Kimberly A.Technical Note DARDEN-M-0913-EMarketingAlthough most people are consumers of social media, few understand how to leverage it to build a brand-whether it is their own brand or a firm’s brand. Just as Wal-Mart customers are not experts at marketing the retailer, consumers of social media are not yet skilled at utilizing it from a business-building perspective. This note is designed to help you think about social media from a brand manager’s perspective; specifically, you will: (1) learn...Starting at €8.20
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Developing a Superior Positioning Concept for a Product, Service, Idea, or Experience
Whitler, Kimberly A.Technical Note DARDEN-M-0919-EMarketingWhile there are a number of courses focused on helping students create and perfect innovative new products, there remains a gap regarding how to create and perfect the idea-or the positioning behind the product. The reality is that it is significantly more difficult than most people think to create a superior positioning concept. In addition, most sophisticated marketing organizations begin with a winning idea before they begin to deploy R&D reso...Starting at €8.20