The Oxford Handbook of Pricing Management


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The Oxford Handbook of Pricing Management is a comprehensive guide to the theory and practice of pricing across industries, environments, and methodologies. The Handbook illustrates the wide variety of pricing approaches that are used in different industries. It also covers the diverse range of methodologies that are needed to support pricing decisions across these different industries. It includes more than 30 chapters written by pricing leaders from industry, consulting, and academia. It explains how pricing is actually performed in a range of industries, from airlines and internet advertising to electric power and health care. The volume covers the fundamental principles of pricing, such as price theory in economics, models of consumer demand, game theory, and behavioural issues in pricing, as well as specific pricing tactics such as customized pricing, nonlinear pricing, dynamic pricing, sales promotions, markdown management, revenue management, and auction pricing. In addition, there are articles on the key issues involved in structuring and managing a pricing organization, setting a global pricing strategy, and pricing in business-to-business settings.




Fundamentals of Business (black and White)


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(Black & White version) Fundamentals of Business was created for Virginia Tech's MGT 1104 Foundations of Business through a collaboration between the Pamplin College of Business and Virginia Tech Libraries. This book is freely available at: http://hdl.handle.net/10919/70961 It is licensed with a Creative Commons-NonCommercial ShareAlike 3.0 license.




The Price Advantage


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The Price Advantage by three preeminent experts at McKinsey & Company is the most pragmatic and insightful book on pricing available. Based on in-depth, first-hand experience with hundreds of companies, this book is designed to provide managers with comprehensive guidance through the maze of pricing issues. The authors demonstrate why pricing excellence is critical to corporate success and profitability, then explain state-of-the-art approaches to analyzing and improving your own pricing strategy for any product or service. Their advice is critical for readers who need to develop pricing strategies that work in both good economic times and bad.




Pricing and Profitability Management


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The practical guide to using pricing and profitability management to build a better business A comprehensive reference for any business professional looking to understand the capabilities and competencies required for effectively managing pricing and profitability, Pricing and Profitability Management explains how to determine the right approach, tools, and techniques for each of six key categories (pricing strategy, price execution, advanced analytics and optimization, organizational alignment and governance, pricing technology and data management, and tax and regulatory effectiveness). Exploring each category in detail, the book addresses how an integrated approach to pricing improvement can give a sustainable, competitive advantage to any organization. The ultimate "how to" manual for any executive or manager interested in price management, the book presents a holistic, comprehensive framework that shows how integrating these pricing categories into a cohesive program leads to impressive gains that cannot be achieved through a single-pronged approach. Presents a comprehensive framework for more effectively managing pricing and profitability Identities the six key categories of pricing and profitability management Shows you how to gain a competitive edge by managing pricing and profitability Taking a comprehensive view of pricing, companies can position themselves to tap a vast source of shareholder value—the ability to set and enforce profitable prices, not just once, but again and again in response to marketplace changes and evolving business needs—and this book will show you how.




The Challenge of Value


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"Far too little work has been done around the question of value, this is a notable contribution to the field. .....This book will give you a head start in communicating the value inherent in your goods and services to the stakeholders who matter most to your business...your customers." David Thorp, Director of Research and Professional Development, The Chartered Institute of Marketing "The contents of this book are at the very heart of understanding value. As a result, I think it would be extremely helpful for readers wishing to understand and implement value in their own organisations." Helmut Stiegler, Manager Sales & Marketing-Sales Excellence, Siemens Industry Automation Division The Challenge of Value: First you must understand your customer and what is important (valuable) to him personally and to his business in terms of the three elements of the Value Triad. Second you must understand your competition and how you are different from them on those issues that are important to the customer. Third you have to quantify the monetary and emotional value (both positive and negative) of these differentiators. Finally you have to construct a Value Proposition that clearly explains the differentiated value that your product or service brings to the customer. At the end of the day, customers will only buy your product or service if they understand the value that you offer and they feel they have a reasonable chance of receiving that value if they purchase. That's the challenge. This book will help you meet it.




Smart Pricing


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In Smart Pricing: How Google, Priceline and Leading Businesses Use Pricing Innovation for Profitability, Wharton professors and renowned pricing experts Jagmohan Raju and Z. John Zhang draw on examples from high tech to low tech, from consumer markets to business markets, and from U.S. to abroad, to tell the stories of how innovative pricing strategies can help companies create and capture value as well as customers. They teach the pricing principles behind those innovative ideas and practices. Smart Pricing introduces many innovative approaches to pricing, as well as the research and insights that went into their creation. Filled with illustrative examples from the business world, readers will learn about restaurants where customers set the price, how Google and other high-tech firms have used pricing to remake whole industries, how executives in China successfully start and fight price wars to conquer new markets. Smart Pricing goes well beyond familiar approaches like cost-plus, buyer-based pricing, or competition-based pricing, and puts a wide variety of pricing mechanisms at your disposal. This book helps you understand them, choose them, and use them to win.




Harvard Business Review on Pricing


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Finding the right price for your product or service often feels more like an art than a science. Today's consumers are more price-sensitive and cost-savvy than ever. Price a product too high and you may limit your market. Price too low and not only will you leave money on the table, you may damage your brand or, even worse, ignite a competitive price war.This book provides the techniques you'll need to manage your pricing strategy with confidence.




Power Pricing


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In one compact volume, here are the innovative tactics business leaders need to attain maximum financial performance for their companies. Whether they're selling beer or land, this book is one book managers can't afford to ignore




Electronic Commerce


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This textbook provides a strategic marketing and managerial perspective of electronic commerce. The research of the four authors provides the basis for the book, allowing for first-hand experience, varied viewpoints, and relevance. Contents: 1) Electronic commerce: An introduction. 2) Electronic commerce technology. 3) Web strategy: Attracting and retaining visitors. 4) Promotion: Integrated Web communications. 5) Promotion & purchase: Measuring effectiveness. 6) Distribution. 7) Service. 8) Pricing. 9) Post-Modernism and the Web: Societal effects.




The Art of Pricing


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Furnishes a practical and easy-to-understand guide on how to use pricing to increase hidden profits and develop new growth opportunities, offering helpful advice, strategies, and techniques for increasing profit margins. 20,000 first printing.