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Course Name |
Fair & Unfair Competition Rules |
Contact Hours: 3 |
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Course Description |
The rules regarding what is fair and unfair competition affect virtually all of a company's business decisions,hiring, marketing, sales, and customer-relations, and research and development, among others. Employees need to understand these rules. Violations can be very damaging to a company generally and, in some cases, to individual employees.
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Outcome |
By completing this course you will be able to learn:
- Relationships with competitors
- Relationships with customers
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Monopolistic behavior
- Price discrimination
- Exemptions from the antitrust laws
- Special industries
- Antitrust in other contexts
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Assessment |
After reading the material, you'll have a chance to play an online game that presents hypothetical scenarios for you to analyze. As you answer the multiple-choice questions correctly, you'll move through the game and earn a Certificate of Completion.
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Outline |
The law of unfair competition is the product of many years of state and federal court decisions and, more recently, a number of state and federal statutes. This body of law can be distilled into the following categories of unfair competition: - Relationships with competitors
- Relationships with customers
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Monopolistic behavior
- Price discrimination
- Exemptions from the antitrust laws
- Special industries
- Antitrust in other contexts
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