Pricing Strategies

Pricing is one of the most powerful levers that a firm can use to maximize profits. However, this opportunity to impact profits often remains untapped as many managers do not know how to improve upon historical pricing practices within their companies and industries. This course prepares students to address both strategic and tactical pricing issues and to identify profit-boosting changes in pricing practices across a range of professional contexts - as management consultants, product managers, entrepreneurs, and business-unit managers.The course is structured around three modules. These arePricing Analysis: In this first module, you will learn how to assess customer willingness to pay and to analyze demand for a product or service. You will also learn how to measure price sensitivity and compute price elasticities for new products and for more established ones.Price Structures and Metrics: In this module, which forms the heart of the course, you will learn when to use different price structures and how to design them optimally. These price structures take the form of product-line pricing, segmented pricing, price bundling, non-linear price schedules, subscription pricing and other forms of targeting. You will also learn how to use appropriate pricing metrics to monetize value.Price Management: In this final module you will study how to manage prices via pricing policy, price delegation, markdown pricing, revenue management and price promotions.The course uses a mix of lectures, case discussions, mini-cases, analytical exercises, and covers pricing across a broad spectrum of industries involving both B2C and B2B and from both economic and psychological perspectives."