This information is for the 2020/21 session.
Teacher responsible
Dr Hye-Young Kim
Availability
This course is available on the BSc in Management, International Exchange (1 Term) and International Exchange (Full Year). This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students.
This course is not available for postgraduates.
Course content
The most valuable assets that firms have are the products/services that they offer and the brands that are associated with them. Managing Products & Brands is a rigorous examination of the theory and corporate practices relevant to product and brand management. Its core objectives are to provide an understanding of the important issues in planning and evaluating product/brand strategies, to provide the appropriate theories, models, and analytical tools that enable managers to make well-informed product/brand management decisions, and to provide a platform for students to apply these principles. The critical approach adopted will blend theory and practice so as to promote effective managerial decision making on a short as well as long term basis.
Teaching
20 hours of lectures and 10 hours of seminars in the LT.
Formative coursework
Students will meet in their groups with the course leader several times during the term to receive feedback on their work. Detailed guidelines on the group project will be provided in the course syllabus and sample projects will be available.
Indicative reading
• David A. Aaker (1996) Building strong brands. New York: The Free Press.
• Byron Sharp (2010) How brands grow - what marketers don’t know. Melbourne: Oxford University Press.
• Youngme Moon (2010) Different, Escaping the Competitive herd. New York: Crown Business, Random House.
• Kevin Lane Keller, Brian Sternthal and Alice Tybout (2002) Three questions you need to ask about your brand, Harvard Business Review, volume 80, issue 9, page 80-86.
• Lodish, Leonard M, and Carl F Mela (2007), “If Brands Are Built Over Years, Why Are They Managed Over Quarters?”, July/August, Harvard Business Review, 85, 7/8 (July-August), 104-112).
• Rangaswamy, Arvind, Raymond R Burke, and Terence Oliva (1993) “Brand Equity and the Extendibility of Brand Names”, International Journal of Research in Marketing, Special Issue on Brand Equity, Vol. 10, p. 61-75.
Assessment
Coursework (60%), project (30%) and class participation (10%) in the LT.
Coursework will be an Individual Take-home assignment and the Project will be completed in groups.
Key facts
Department: Management
Total students 2019/20: 50
Average class size 2019/20: 17
Capped 2019/20: Yes (51)
Value: Half Unit
Personal development skills
Important information in response to COVID-19
Please note that during 2020/21 academic year some variation to teaching and learning activities may be required to respond to changes in public health advice and/or to account for the situation of students in attendance on campus and those studying online during the early part of the academic year. For assessment, this may involve changes to mode of delivery and/or the format or weighting of assessments. Changes will only be made if required and students will be notified about any changes to teaching or assessment plans at the earliest opportunity.