Documenti di Didattica
Documenti di Professioni
Documenti di Cultura
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Operations Research in Marketing: Why & Where?
Introduction to Pricing
Reading: Robert J. Dolan, How do you know when the price is Right?,
HBR, Sept-Oct, 1995
Module 1 Pricing: Optimization and Analytics
Market Research for Pricing Feedback
Case: Hyrule Cinemas: Pricing Movies and Popcorns
Reading: Ronald T. Wilcox, A Practical Guide to Conjoint Analysis,
Darden Business Publishing.
Pricing Analytics: Theory
Reading: Tudor Bodea and Mark Ferguson, Pricing Segmentation and
Analytics, Business Expert Press (Chapter 1)
Introduction to R Programming
Reading: To be distributed
R Programming for Marketing Analytics
Reading: To be distributed
Pricing Analytics: Practice
Reading: Tudor Bodea and Mark Ferguson, Pricing Segmentation and
Analytics, Business Expert Press (Chapter 2)
Dynamic Pricing and Markdown Optimization
Reading: Tudor Bodea and Mark Ferguson, Pricing Segmentation and
Analytics, Business Expert Press (Chapter 3)
Module 2 Promotion
Coupon Promotion
Case: SC Johnson: Planning Coupon Promotion
Reading: Rajkumar Venkatesan and Paul Farris, Unused coupons still
pay off, HBR, May 2012
Evaluating Promotion Performance
Case: Giant Consumer Products: The Sales Promotion Resource
Allocation Decision
Reading: Betsy Gelb, Demetra Andrews, and Son K. Lam, A strategic
perspective on sales promotion, SMR 248
Marketing Expenditure Allocation
Case: Reliance Baking Soda: Optimizing Promotional Spending
Module 3 Managing Customer
Demand Forecasting
Case: Marriott Room Forecasting
Reading: David M. Georgoff, Robert G. Murdick, Managers Guide to
Forecasting, HBR, Jan-Feb 1986
Reading: Forecasting with regression analysis, HBS Note
Forecasting for Innovative Products
Case: Forecasting the Adoption of eBooks
Reading: Kennet B. Kahn, Solving the problems of new product
forecasting, Business Horizons (2014), 57, 607-615
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Suggested Texts:
Reference Books:
1. Lilien, G.L., Kotler, P., and Moorthy, K.S. (2006), Marketing Models, Prentice-Hall
of India Private Limited, New Delhi.
2. Wierenga, B. (2008), Handbook of Marketing Decision Models, Springer