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Courtlyn
Promotion and Events Specialist
March 13, 2025
6 weeks, online
4–6 hours per week
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The benefit of learning together with your friend is that you keep each other accountable and have meaningful discussions about what you're learning.
Courtlyn
Promotion and Events SpecialistPricing has historically been an essential part of the marketing mix - and yet it remains a vastly underutilized tool. When properly applied as a strategic lever, pricing tools can impact your overall business goals, drive profitable growth, enhance customer value, and create the ultimate win-win situation. You'll learn the psychology behind pricing and what it takes to find the sweet spot between customer behavior and profit maximization.
By shifting from traditional pricing methodologies to an analytics-based approach, product and marketing professionals find that effective pricing tactics become self-evident through the data. In this program, you'll learn to optimize revenue through pricing from a global expert who built teams and developed analytical approaches foundational to organizations like Amazon and Uber.
Pricing analytics provide critical insights for creating a pricing playbook, including the:
Price management initiatives can increase profit margins by 2 to 7 percent in a year, yielding an ROI between 200 and 350 percent.
Every $1 increase in the cost of goods means at least $1 in lost profit. Review your pricing often.
A 1 percent pricing improvement results in an 11.1 percent increase in operating profit.
The Pricing Methodologies (Online) program will enable you to:
This program is designed for professionals, particularly in the following roles:
This program provides a comprehensive overview of pricing theories and best practices that empower participants to create a pricing playbook for their organizations. The playbook acts as a decision-making tool to outline and build a presentation of setting the right price for your product or service.
Get real-world context through an assessment of pricing methodologies broadly as well as within your organization.
Explore the underlying economics of pricing, including the quantitative terms and approaches used to maximize revenue.
Examine the potential benefits of both customer segmentation and product segmentation.
Explore the "why" and "how" of pricing changes, and identify both potential opportunities and inhibiting factors for dynamic pricing in your organization.
Explore the project taken by Nomis Solutions, the industry-leading pricing and profitability management organization, for an e-car auto loan services organization, and see how economic functions and logistic regressions help refine price, improve processes and systems, and reduce customer churn.
Examine historical pricing scandals and their surrounding psychology. Learn why some aspects of pricing are not rational and why customer responses are not consistent so you can apply these lessons to your organization’s pricing playbook.
Get real-world context through an assessment of pricing methodologies broadly as well as within your organization.
Explore the "why" and "how" of pricing changes, and identify both potential opportunities and inhibiting factors for dynamic pricing in your organization.
Explore the underlying economics of pricing, including the quantitative terms and approaches used to maximize revenue.
Explore the project taken by Nomis Solutions, the industry-leading pricing and profitability management organization, for an e-car auto loan services organization, and see how economic functions and logistic regressions help refine price, improve processes and systems, and reduce customer churn.
Examine the potential benefits of both customer segmentation and product segmentation.
Examine historical pricing scandals and their surrounding psychology. Learn why some aspects of pricing are not rational and why customer responses are not consistent so you can apply these lessons to your organization’s pricing playbook.
World-Renowned Faculty
Learn from accomplished faculty, and industry expert whose diverse backgrounds encompass a broad range of disciplines
Guest Speakers
Accomplished academics and experts offer unique perspectives and the opportunity to put learning into practice
Peer Interaction
Stimulating discussions with like-minded global peers expand your professional network and build a supportive community
Engaging Assignments and Activities
Hone business acumen and executive skills with try-it activities that help you redefine your potential
Past participants of the Pricing Methodologies (Online) program come from diverse backgrounds, industries, and experiences.
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Robert L. Phillips
Founder, Nomis Solutions, Former Pricing Expert at Uber and Amazon
Robert Phillips founded Nomis Solutions, a software and consulting organization that helps financial service organizations better manage pricing and profitability, and serves on the board of directors. He was previously the director of pricing research at Amazon, where he led a team of data scientists and economists that developed the analytic approaches underlying pricing for Amazon’s businesses.
Before joining Amazon, Phillips was Director of Marketplace Data Science at Uber, as well as Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia Business School, and Director of the Columbia Center for Pricing and Revenue Management. He was also a visiting scholar and lecturer at the Stanford Business School.
Phillips was a pioneer in developing pricing and revenue optimization and dynamic pricing in many industries including passenger airlines, cruise lines, rental cars, retail, automotive, hotels, air cargo, trucking, container shipping, and manufacturing. He served as CEO of Decision Focus Incorporated, a consulting company specializing in the application of business analytics in business and government, and as CEO of Talus Solutions, a revenue-management software and services company.
Phillips is the author of two books, Pricing and Revenue Optimization and Pricing Credit Products, and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Pricing Management. He is an INFORMS Fellow and a recipient of the INFORMS Impact Prize for his work in pricing and revenue management.
Phillips holds a Ph.D. in Engineering-Economic Systems from Stanford University and Bachelor Degrees in Economics and Mathematics from Washington State University.
Upon completion of the Pricing Methodologies (Online) program, you will receive a certificate of participation from Columbia Business School Executive Education. This certificate also awards two credits towards the Certificate in Business Excellence, which grants select alumni and tuition benefits. Learn More
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