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.99-ending prices: Are they really as effective as we assume?

There has been a long-standing debate among researchers regarding what makes prices ending in .99 so attractive to consumers. Some argue that consumers tend to focus on the left digits, rounding the .99 down (e.g., viewing $18.99 as $18).

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Complete Circuit: Trulaske grad turns networking into career in electrical distributor sales

By Stephen Schmidt

When she was a freshman at the Trulaske College of Business, Kaitlynn Berry, BS BA ’18, could have never envisioned her current career path.

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Student Agri-Marketing Club Takes Fourth in Nation at Competition

The Mizzou National Agri-Marketing Association (NAMA) chapter made it to the final round of the 2021 Student NAMA Virtual Marketing Competition for the first time in more than 10 years.

By Kelsey Allen

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Tap Day Tradition Continues

By Kelsey Allen

Meet the seven students and one staff member from the Trulaske College of Business who were inducted into secret societies during the annual Tap Day.

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Trulaske Announces Inaugural Inclusion, Diversity and Equity Director

Dean Ajay Vinzé recently announced the hire of Erika Aaron as the inaugural director of inclusion, diversity and equity at Trulaske.

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Marketing professor named Professor of the Year at recent ROARS Awards

By Stephen Schmidt

For Wayne Keene, EdD ’17, the third time was indeed the charm.

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And the Award Goes To ...

Trulaske faculty win best paper awards at some of the most prominent business conferences and competitions.

By Kelsey Allen

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New faculty join Trulaske College of Business

This fall, the Trulaske College of Business welcomed new faculty to three of the college’s four academic departments.

Corporate partnership brings real-world data to marketing students

Learning the retail procurement process can be difficult to present with real-world information – many companies do not publicly share the data from their pricing, negotiations, retail planning strategies.

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Students walk away with prizes, real-world experience in Schnucks case competition

A partnership between St. Louis-based supermarket chain Schnucks Markets, Inc., and the Trulaske College of Business led to a case competition among the 120 students in four Retail Marketing classes offered last fall at Trulaske.

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Mizzou team wins Gold Award at annual State Farm case competition

Mizzou seniors Kristen Ross and Grant Garske won the Gold Award for their Marketing Presentation at the 10th Annual State Farm National Sales and Marketing Case Competition November 8, 2019, at the University of Central Missouri in Warrensburg.

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Mizzou hosts third industrial-sponsored sales competition

The Trulaske College of Business hosted its third E. & J. Gallo Winery Collegiate Sales Competition on October 24-25 with seven schools represented at the marketing case competition and sales role play competition.