COURSE NUMBER: EWMBA 269-11
COURSE TITLE: Pricing
UNITS OF CREDIT: 3 Units
INSTRUCTOR: Wasim Azhar
E-MAIL ADDRESS: azhar@haas.berkeley.edu
CLASS WEB PAGE LOCATION (HTTP URL): bSpace
MEETING DAY(S)/TIME: Saturdays, 1PM-4PM
PREREQUISITE(S): EWMBA Core Curriculum
CLASS FORMAT: Primarily cases with lectures
REQUIRED READINGS: Textbook will be used plus cases and
readings
BASIS FOR FINAL GRADE:
The final grade
for participants will be based on both individual and group work as follows:
A. Class
Participation -25%
B. Group Case
Write-up -25%
C. Individual
Short Essays - 25%
D. Final Exam - 25%
ABSTRACT OF COURSE'S CONTENT AND
OBJECTIVES:
Optimal pricing
is an essential component of marketing strategy in a competitive business
environment and yet many firms employ arbitrary rules and haphazard approaches
to pricing that adversely affect their profits and competitive positions. This
course aims to equip participants with innovative and useful concepts,
techniques, and frameworks for assessing, formulating, and implementing optimal
pricing strategies and tactics. The course will draw on behavorial and economic
foundations, analytical marketing frameworks and techniques, principles of
marketing strategy, and game theory to develop and describe effective
systematic and structured approaches and frameworks for assessing, formulating
and implementing optimal pricing decisions. Concepts and topics covered in the
course will include new product pricing, pricing over the product life cycle,
value pricing, segmented pricing, nonlinear pricing, price discrimination,
promotional pricing, retail pricing techniques, pricing software products,
internet pricing models and product line pricing strategies. Pricing strategies
and tactics in competitive bidding situations will also be covered. The course
will primarily use cases which will be supplemented by lectures. The cases will
be drawn from B2B and B2C manufacturing and service industries. The course is
primarily intended for managers who in their careers will be involved in
evaluating, formulating, implementing and/or recommending pricing polices,
strategies and tactics within the context of integrated marketing strategies.
Upon completion of this course, participants will:
á
Understand
the significance and impact of pricing practices in manufacturing and service
industries
á
Develop
and learn concepts and frameworks for analyzing pricing decisions
á
Master
techniques for formulating and implementing optimal and profitable pricing
decisions.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH:
Lecturer in
Marketing at Stanford University. Wasim Azhar specializes in international
marketing and sales and channels management. He was formerly a Professor of
Business Policy and Marketing and Pro-Vice Chancellor at Lahore University of
Management Sciences in Pakistan. At Stanford, he currently teaches the MBA
elective courses in Global and International Marketing and Channels Management
as well as the core marketing course for the Sloan program. He also teaches
electives in International Marketing and Channels and Distribution Management
at the Haas School of Business at University of California at Berkeley.
Research
Interests:
Marketing strategy, intl. marketing, sales and distribution channels, negotiation strategies and competitive bidding, business strategy