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The Market Research course aims at providing students with a wide view of marketing research and its most common research techniques to understand markets and measuring market success. The course consists of four main sections. Section 1 defines market research and set out the market research process leading to the research design Section 2 addresses the qualitative research tools and techniques useful to explore the managerial issue and formulate the research design. Section 3 presents the quantitative techniques commonly used to measure a phenomenon and to test hypotheses, with a special attention to market segmentation and positioning analyses. Section 4 addresses the final report preparation and presentation.
Each section is enriched by practical sessions devoted to the field projects and/or to assignments.
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