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Getting Pricing Done with Jesse Finch Gnehm of GE Oil & Gas

By Tim J. Smith, PhD January 19, 2015

GE has long been known as a process firm, but what processes do they use when it comes to pricing? What do pricing initiatives look like at GE Oil & Gas Subsea Systems? Who contributes to those pricing decisions? How does the pricing function fit within the larger organization? What pricing decisions does the pricing function directly engage? What techniques and tools have been found useful for pricing at GE Oil & Gas Subsea Systems? And are there any external resources that they have found particularly useful?

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Stanford Marketing Researcher Explores the “Decoy Effect”

By James T. Berger January 19, 2015

What makes a first-time buyer select a specific packaged good brand or product from all the other products on the supermarket shelf or Webpage?

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Top 6 – December 2014

By Tim J. Smith, PhD December 22, 2014

Hats & Messy Hair. Wintertime in the northern hemisphere: Little kids don’t care about the hair, maybe we shouldn’t either. You can’t…

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Retail, Black Friday, and Value-Based Pricing

By Tim J. Smith, PhD December 22, 2014

Does value-based pricing work in highly competitive environments, even retail environments? When competitive discounting happens, like Black Friday, does the concept loose meaning? Let’s take a look.

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Pricing and Early Stage Marketing

By Dennis Ng December 22, 2014

After the initial sales growth, the new product suddenly finds itself facing a plateau in sales growth. So the natural question to ask is what are we doing wrong? Did we set a price too high? Should we lower our prices? Fortunately there are strategies for such situations.

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Colorado Provides Laboratory for Marketing Marijuana

By James T. Berger December 22, 2014

Marketing plan for legalized recreational marijuana?
This is hardly a far-fetched idea. The states of Colorado and Washington legalized pot in 2012 and in the most recent election Alaska, Oregon and the District of Columbia have followed suit. So here we have a new growth industry falling into the laps of entrepreneurs.

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What I Learned about Pricing from Taylor Swift

By Mary DeBoni December 22, 2014

Remember when T Swift pulled her albums off of Spotify?! The horror! Deciding to go against the grain, Swift made a decision that could have potentially angered her fans and cost her big time but what happened was magical.

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Top 6 – November 2014

By Tim J. Smith, PhD November 24, 2014

Team building and leadership have some roots in Machiavelli. If they are not following, you are not leading. At some point, team…

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The Radicalness of Value Based Pricing

By Tim J. Smith, PhD November 24, 2014

Value-based pricing aims to price offerings according to the value customers’ associate with the offering in comparison to its alternatives. This is a…

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Will the Marketplace Adopt Apple Pay?

By James T. Berger November 24, 2014

Not all believe the market will adopt of Apple Pay. Read the academic reasons why Apply Pay falls short of a sure bet.

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