DCSN 211

Pricing and Revenue Management

Decision Systems ยท Olayan School of Business ยท 3 credits
Effective pricing and capacity management offer powerful levers that companies are increasingly using to squeeze more profits in competitive markets. The course focuses, at a tactical level, on how to integrate pricing, sales and product design decisions to extract maximal value from any mismatch between supply and demand. It also introduces pricing and capacity management as a hedging tool in the presence of various risk factors. It is based on model-building and relies on constrained optimization techniques implemented through Excel and Solver.