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Wharton's Applied Knowledge Capstone Project enables you to apply your analytic skills to real business challenges – including your own. You’ll use your newly earned business skills to thoughtfully evaluate a real situation or opportunity from Wharton-governed companies like Shazam and SnapDeal.
Welcome to the Business Foundations Capstone Project! We've used this course shell to bring you the resources and tools you need to envision, plan, develop, and submit your Capstone Project. Please study the readings below which provide you with the resources and timeline you need to complete a successful capstone. Then, please take the Project Scope Quiz. You must score 100% on all 5 questions to pass the quiz, but you have multiple opportunities to retake the quiz until you score 100%.
What's included
3 readings1 assignment
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3 readings•Total 30 minutes
Welcome to the Business Foundations Capstone Project!•10 minutes
Course Format, Grading and Expectations•10 minutes
Capstone Project Timeline: Check Your Progress Here!•10 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
Project Scope Quiz •30 minutes
Choosing your Project and Videos for Review
Module 2•3 hours to complete
Module details
In this module, you'll write your Description of the product or service you will develop further in a full opportunity analysis for your final project. Because deciding what you will spend the next few weeks researching is such an important step, you'll submit it for peer review so you can get feedback on the validity and feasibility of your idea before you devote more time and effort to it. Once you submit your idea, please review the Project Descriptions of five of your peers.
In this Module, you'll write your Marketing Plan for your product or service that will be part of your final project. Because determining who the audience is for a product or service, and how to talk the audience about it is critical to the success of your capstone, you'll have the opportunity to get feedback on creativity and analytical strength of your marketing plan before you submit is as part of your final project. Once you submit your idea, please review the Marketing Plans of five of your peers.
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14 videos1 assignment1 peer review
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14 videos•Total 165 minutes
Strategic Marketing Flip Chart (11:05)•11 minutes
How Can Customer Centricity Be Profitable (19:03)•19 minutes
Customer Retention (18:24)•18 minutes
Customer Development (3:07)•3 minutes
Brands and Digital Marketing (14:01)•14 minutes
Customers and Digital Marketing (9:49)•10 minutes
Reputation and Reviews (14:38)•15 minutes
Product Life Cycle (3:29)•3 minutes
More Examples of Influence (8:42)•9 minutes
More Examples of Influence - Part 2 (12:34)•13 minutes
Distribution Strategies 1 - Introduction (13:38)•14 minutes
Distribution Strategies 2 - Channel Design (13:39)•14 minutes
Horizontal Conflict (12:46)•13 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
Practice Quiz #3•30 minutes
1 peer review•Total 120 minutes
Marketing Plan Peer Review•120 minutes
Preparing the Rough Draft, and Accounting and Finance Videos for Review
Module 4•5 hours to complete
Module details
Use this week to bring your project together. Finish drafts of each of your project segments, and have someone you trust read it and offer feedback. Use the forums to see if your peers will help you out. You can also post your draft in the forums for feedback if you like. There is no formal graded assignment this week.
Accounts Receivable Disclosure Example (16:35)•17 minutes
Inventory (19:59)•20 minutes
LIFO vs. FIFO (23:11)•23 minutes
Inventory Disclosure Example (11:14)•11 minutes
3M Company: Accounts Receivable and Inventory (17:50)•18 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
Practice Quiz #4•30 minutes
1 peer review•Total 120 minutes
Financial Plan Peer Review - OPTIONAL•120 minutes
Submitting your Capstone
Module 5•2 hours to complete
Module details
Congratulations on completing your capstone! Now it is time to submit it for review. Once you do, please review the work of at least five of your peers. We can't wait to see what you've come up with!
What's included
1 peer review
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1 peer review•Total 120 minutes
Opportunity Analysis for Shazam, Snapdeal, or Your Own Project [3 options]•120 minutes
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Excellent Course on Business Fundamentals ! I thoroughly enjoyed completing this specialization and I really learnt a lot of business concepts that I could practically apply at my workplace.
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Great course! It was very helpful to use the capstone project to review what I learnt again and apply some basic knowledge.
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Excellent assignment, the most demanding I have seen so far on Coursera. Hope to be able to take it successfully the second time.
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