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  • Welcome to the course!

    Hi all, 

    It is good to know that this is a mostly online simulation course with four optional face to face case sessions. 

    Timeline below. 

    Date & time

    Room

    Content

    26 Feb

    14.15-15.00

    https://aalto.zoom.us/j/67463407633

    Kick-off session

    26 Feb –

    15 Mar

    Online (MyCourses)

    Online learning material

    • Costs and cost advantages
    • Competitors and competition
    • Competitive advantage
    • Market entry
    • Make or buy
    • Industry analysis
    • Pricing

    18 Mar

    14-14.45

    Online

    (MyCourses)

    Midterm exam

    5 Apr

    10.15-12.00

    V002, BIZ

    Case teaching: Extraordinary Journeys

    5 Apr

    14.15-16.00

    V002, BIZ

    Case teaching: The a2 milk company

    8 Apr

    17.00-17.45

    Online

    (MyCourses)

    Resit of the midterm exam

    9 Apr

    10.15-12.00

    U356 Alma Media (Otakaari 1)

    Case teaching: Newlight Technology

    9 Apr

    14.15-16.00

    U5 (Otakaari 1)

    Case teaching: Spanish Vines

    15 Apr

    9-21

    Online

    (MyCourses)

    Final exam

    15 May

    9-21

    Online

    (MyCourses)

    Resit of the final exam




    Please start by going through the syllabus. On 26th February, 14.15 we will have an optional zoom session to go over the structure of the course, and answer any questions you might have.

    Best,

    Myrto


    • Tillgänglig om: You are a(n) Studerande
      Cases, Theory Slides, and Examples Mapp
    • Welcome to study Market Entry Strategies for Entrepreneurial Business

      Our focus in this introductory course is on the strategic analysis of markets and competitors for the purpose of launching new products or services.


    • Tillgänglig om: Du uppnår högre än en viss poäng i Level 0 - Introduction
      Level 1 - Costs and cost advantages Kunskapstest

      The principal objective of this module is to learn to understand under what conditions firms enjoy a cost advantage over their competitors: what factors enable a firm to produce more efficiently (=cheaply) than their competitors?


    • Level 2 - Competitors and competition Lesson Kunskapstest
      Before firms can formulate market entry strategies for their new product or service, they need to understand the nature of competition in the market they are about to enter. It is crucial for predicting how competitors that are already in the market are likely to respond to the new firm’s entry. It also helps in figuring out whether the product should be positioned in terms of its price or the benefits that it generates to the consumer.
    • Tillgänglig om: Du uppnår högre än en viss poäng i Level 0 - Introduction
      Level 3 - Competitive advantage Kunskapstest

      In addition to understanding the nature of competition in the market you are about to enter, an equally important consideration is what your strengths and perhaps weaknesses are. How should you position your product so as to make it competitive vis-à-vis the competitors?


    • Level 4 - Market entry Kunskapstest

      Previously in this course we learned about the particular challenges of entering oligopolistic markets with new products and services. In this module, we will dig deeper into these challenges by learning how to identify and understand different barriers to entry and how to understand and analyse predatory acts: competitive pricing strategies aimed at deterring entry or pushing a competitor out of the market


    • Tillgänglig om: Du uppnår högre än en viss poäng i Level 0 - Introduction
      Level 5 - Make or buy Kunskapstest

      Many new firms suffer from the ‘liability of smallness’: they do not have the resources to do everything by themselves. Cooperating with other firms is one solution to overcome resource scarcity. Also established firms bringing new products and services to the market should carefully weigh which elements of the product or service they ought to do themselves (‘make’) and which elements to outsource to other firms (‘buy’).


    • Tillgänglig om: Du uppnår högre än en viss poäng i Level 0 - Introduction
      Level 6 - Industry Analysis Kunskapstest

      An important consideration in market entry decisions is analysing the intensity of post-entry competition in the industry that the firm aspires to enter. Perhaps the most prominent tool for this purpose is Michael Porter’s five-forces framework, which is the focus of this learning module. As you will see, the five-forces analysis is like a convenient summary of the concepts that we have covered in the previous modules.


    • Tillgänglig om: Du uppnår högre än en viss poäng i Level 6 - Industry Analysis
      Level 7 - Pricing Kunskapstest
      The price of the product or service that the company enters a new market which has played a central role in the previous modules. In this module, we take a closer look at different pricing concepts from an economic perspective. Thus, instead of trying to address the whole plethora of different (psychological) pricing concepts – which are covered in detail in the marketing literature – we will focus on studying price discrimination as a fundamental economic concept for understanding strategic pricing.
    • The exam is open online in MyCourses on March 18th between 14:00 and 14:45. You have 45 minutes to complete the exam. Time starts once you clicked the „start attempt“ button and ends automatically after 45 minutes. The exam requires you to answer 30 single choice questions based on the theoretical concepts you learned. The exam will be open books, open notes. Nonetheless, it is advisable to prepare well in advance as there will not be enough time to look up the questions. 


    • The re-exam is open online in MyCourses on April 8th between 17:00 and 17:45. You have 45 minutes to complete the exam. Time starts once you clicked the „start attempt“ button and ends automatically after 45 minutes. The exam requires you to answer 30 single choice questions based on the theoretical concepts you learned. The exam will be open books, open notes. Nonetheless, it is advisable to prepare well in advance as there will not be enough time to look up the questions.

    • The re-exam is open online in MyCourses on 15th of April between 9:00 am and 9:00 pm. You have 3 hours to complete the exam. Time starts once you clicked at the „start attempt“ button and ends automatically after 180 minutes. If you start past 6:00 pm you lose time to answer as the exam closes automatically at 9 pm.

      Exam Information
      The final exam requires you to apply the concepts you have learned in the online learning modules to four cases: Extraordinary Journeys, The a2 Milk Company, Newlight Technologies and Spanish Vines. There will be two questions requiring answers of up to 1000 words each. The exam will be open books, open notes and it is highly advisable to prepare well in advance. You will need to know the conceptual material from the online learning modules as well as the case thoroughly in order to do well in the exam and to provide well-justified solutions to the case problems.

      AI disclosure

      Please add a paragraph to the end of your exam answers if you have utilized AI, detailing what you used it for and ALL the prompts you used to obtain the results. Failure to do so breaches academic honesty policies. 


    • The final exam is open online in MyCourses on May 15th between 9 am and 9 pm. You have 3 hours to complete the exam. Time starts once you clicked at the "start attempt“ button and ends automatically after 180 minutes. If you start past 6 pm you lose time to answer as the exam closes automatically at 9 pm. 


      Exam Information 

      The final exam requires you to apply the concepts you have learned in the online learning modules to four cases: Extraordinary Journeys, The a2 Milk Company,  Newlight Technologies and Spanish Vines. There will be two questions requiring answers of up to 1000 words each. The exam will be open books, open notes and it is highly advisable to prepare well in advance. You will need to know the conceptual material from the online learning modules as well as the case thoroughly in order to do well in the exam and to provide well-justified solutions to the case problems.

      AI disclosure

      Please add a paragraph to the end of your exam answers if you have utilized AI, detailing what you used it for and ALL the prompts you used to obtain the results. Failure to do so breaches academic honesty policies.