Students explore a scenario involving a management meeting at a bank, where the participants in this meeting are discussing the bank’s potential engagement with a social issue, namely problem gambling. The task is to review the meeting and work out what the bank should do and how much they should be involved in this social issue.
Should the Bank Support the Social Cause? Review the Teaching Activity
Students review an award-winning education outreach project by Colgate known as “Education in a Box” designed for schools in Myanmar. While this sounds like a great initiative for providing education resources – was it really? Or was it a form of stealth marketing or just greenwashing?
Education CSR or Just Promotion? Review the Teaching Activity
In this task, students review several marketing claims and identify whether the firm is making legitimate claims and is helping the natural environment OR whether they are engaged in greenwashing.
Are these Legitimate Marketing Claims or Greenwashing? Review the Teaching Activity
Students are faced with evaluating and selecting sponsorship opportunities from a list of five possibilities. Unfortunately, the company only has enough budget to choose either 2 or 3 of them. A good activity to understand the impact of sponsorships and to evaluate how effective they may be.
Evaluating Sponsorship Opportunities Review the Teaching Activity
In this activity students will consider the value of a brand (Specsavers) utilizing a long-term tag-line. While tag-lines are often helpful for communicating positioning and guiding IMC campaigns, they may need to be refreshed at times to keep the brand modern and adaptive.
Do Tag-Lines Eventually Wear Out? Review the Teaching Activity
Around 60 multiple choice questions on the product mix and the pricing mix – ideal for student revision and setting quizzes.
Product and Price Multiple Choice Revision Questions Review the Teaching Activity
As we know, product attributes are the characteristics and qualities of a product, which can be either being tangible or intangible. Students work through sets of product features and benefits to sort out which is which.
Difference Between Features, Functions, and Benefits Review the Teaching Activity
In this activity, students work with a snack brand that has one underperforming product and choose from an array of ideas and suggestions to improve results, and address the question is repositioning the best option?
Is Repositioning the Best Option? Review the Teaching Activity
Diamond Shreddies 2008 campaign is another classic marketing case study. It plays on the idea that Shreddies, which were traditionally square-shaped, had been “transformed” into a new, diamond-shaped version. But nothing changed except for their sales.
Classic Case Study: Shreddies Cereal Review the Teaching Activity
Your students take the role of a brand manager of a successful frozen-food brand. But it is in the maturity phase of the PLC and needs to pursue other growth options. Students evaluate five potential new lines and line extensions to help guide the brand forward.
Which Line of New Products Should We Pursue? Review the Teaching Activity