Marketing is about offering customers products that provide more value than competitors’ products. Firms must constantly focus on gaining and sustaining competitive advantages. Therefore, marketing has to ensure that firms develop and market superior products in the mind of consumers. Because consumer preferences for product offerings continuously change or evolve over time firms have to engage in an ongoing process of delivering superior products to their customers or new customer groups. In this class we will study core concepts and methods to gain better understanding of the firm’s actual and potential customers. For that reason, we focus on methods to better understand customers and their preferences. We will learn how to obtain quantitative measures and descriptions about customers and their perception of the market, and we learn how to estimate customer preferences for product characteristics of established and new products. A large part of the class work will therefore focus on econometric and statistical tools to support firms in their marketing decisions. We use the software R, and the empirical modeling with R follows closely the book by Chapman and McDonnell Feit from 2015.
Detailed information is given in the syllabus (see homepage of the Institute of Marketing).
Obligatory are 4 non-graded written special work performances.
Exam registration via AGNES: from 01 November to 13 November 2019! |
