Real People, Real Real People, Real Choices [Paperback] Solomon, Michael R.; Marshall, Greg W; Stuart, Elnora W.; Barnes, Bradley and Mitchell, Vincent-Wayne
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I'll be honest: I didn't read all of this. I probably won't until I have an extensive break. Regardless, what I did read helped to emphasize what I did- and still am- learning in class. A lot of the time the chapters were too long. It's my only real complaint.
Conclusion
Definitely a must-read for those taking beginner marketing classes. It gives you a good foundation in what is to come later on or so I'm told.
They have done a good amount of editing to make the book easy to review and reference, but the ethics subsections and case scenarios lack much of a point. It seemed like the authors were trying to make this an all-in-one course, but they would have done better to simply write a textbook and allow an instructor to create lessons from the material. Also, the digital labs (separate purchase) use some of the same language, but do not relate well to the material, and they praise correct answers but fail to explain student mistakes.
Blah. Marketing: the pseudo-scientific part of business education that tries to prove that people really are no more than a pig, in a cage, on antibiotics.