Stern School of Business
Competitive Strategy in the Marketplace
MKTG-GB.2361.30
Wednesday 6:00-9:00 PM
February 8 - May 9 2016
Jeffrey A. Carr
Office: Tisch 802
Phone: 212-998-0073
Email: jeffrey.carr@stern.nyu.edu
Office hours by appointment
“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
Napoleon
Strategic marketing is the decision-making process of risking and allocating scarce company resources in the search for a competitive advantage in the marketplace. The steps are well known: analyze where your customers, competitors and company are today; determine where you want them to be tomorrow; develop a plan for getting there; and then implement it. It all sounds so simple. But in the heat of the day-to-day battle to get and keep customers, there are constant pressures on managers to deviate from, if not completely forget, those carefully formulated strategies. Customers want you to add “just one little feature” to your product. The salesforce wants you to lower the price to match competition “so we can sell more”. A company in Brazil wants to buy five hundred units next week—while you hadn’t planned on entering South America for two more years. Even the most seasoned marketing manager can fall off the strategic road.
Within companies there are often competing orientations to managing the business—short term vs. long term, strategic planning (corporate decisions) vs. marketing planning (customer based), risk management (diversification vs. focus), financial planning (budgeting, ROI, expense management, etc) vs. marketing planning and marketing (brand building) vs. sales (get a sale now). All of them have basically the same objective—profitability for the company. But their approaches and decision making tools don’t always align. This course focuses on developing and implementing marketing strategies with an emphasis on the dynamics of strategic marketing decision making and how to balance these different perspectives. We will use lectures, case studies, classroom discussion, group presentations and a computer simulation game to develop these marketing issues. This will be an intensive and highly interactive course. Students are expected to question, argue and discuss everything that is presented. Requirements for this class are an understanding of marketing management principles, enthusiasm, and a willingness to think and work. A sense of humor would also be greatly appreciated.
A major feature of this course is the use of a computer simulation--The Global Marketing Game (GMG). In the simulation, student teams will manage the marketing activities of a global consumer product manufacturer. Responsibilities include developing marketing strategies, analyzing market research, designing appropriate products, choosing distribution channels, pricing products and managing the product portfolio of their company. GMG is a dynamic, competitive, engaging and entertaining experience that focuses on the strategic marketing concepts of market segmentation, competitive advantage and company resource allocation.
Course Objectives
1) To introduce and argue for a strategic marketing orientation in company planning regardless of functional responsibility.
2) To provide students with an analytical framework for developing marketing strategies at the corporate, business unit, and product level.
3) To provide the marketing tools and concepts that help managers make more effective and profitable marketing decisions.
4) To provide a forum for students to develop and implement marketing strategies in a risk free and supportive environment.
Course Materials
Course Packet--selected articles and cases
Course Requirements
Your final grade will be composed of the following:
1) GMG company performance (including
performance analysis) 40%
2) Final Exam 40%
3) Case preparation and class participation 20%
Further details concerning the evaluation measures for GMG company performance and the team evaluations will be provided during class.
Competitive Strategy in the Marketplace
2/8 Introduction
Course structure and class requirements
Competitive Strategy
Read: “Sustainable Advantage”
“The Global Marketing Game”
The Global Marketing Game (GMG)
Introduction (simulation description and rules of play)
Form Teams
2/22 Foundations of Strategic Planning
Read: “The Rediscovery of the Marketing Concept”
“The Strategic Triangle”
GMG Company Meeting
1st Decision Due (class end)
2/29 Measuring Competitive Position and Profitability
Read: “Market Share: a Key to Profitability”
“Market Share: Deception or Diagnosis”
GMG Company Meeting
2nd Decision Due (class end)
3/7 Competitor Analysis
Read: “Assessing Advantage: A Framework…”
GMG Company Meeting
3rd Decision Due (class end)
3/21 Product Portfolio Strategy
Marketing Resource Allocation
Read: “Diagnosing the Product Portfolio”
“Marketing is War”
GMG Company Meeting
4th Decision Due (class end)
3/28 The Value and Cost of Marketing Strategies
Read: “Net Present Value of Market Share”
“Marketing Strategy and Differential Advantage”
GMG Company Meeting
5th Decision Due (class end)
4/4 Customer Analysis
Read: “The Positioning Era Cometh”
“Benefit Segmentation--20 Years Later”
GMG Company Meeting
6th Decision Due (class end)
4/11 Strategic Pricing
Read: “Economic Foundations of Pricing”
GMG Company Meeting
7th Decision Due (class end)
4/18 Team Presentations—GMG Company performance report
GMG Company Meeting
8th Decision Due (class end)
4/25 Team Presentations—GMG Company performance report
GMG Company Meeting
9th Decision Due (class end)
5/2 Course Summary
Team Awards
Exam Review
5/9 Final Exam
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