Market Research

3 credits · Fuqua School of Business

This is a course about making decisions with marketing data. Participants will learn about the sorts of marketing decision problems in which research information might prove useful, problems of selection of target market, new product or service introduction, customer retention, pricing, etc. Students will learn how to specify the decision to be made and the information required to make the decision. They will learn how to acquire secondary and primary market research data and judge its quality and appropriateness to the decision problem at hand. They will learn how to analyze and interpret the resultant data to make the decision. This course is for Daytime MBA and Accelerated Daytime MBA students.