MG403 Half Unit
Pricing Strategy
This information is for the 2025/26 session.
Course Convenor
Prof Om Narasimhan
Availability
This course is available on the MSc in Marketing. This course is not available as an outside option to students on other programmes.
Course content
The content of the course is organised into two principal modules: (1) pricing strategy and fundamentals and (2) pricing tactics and implementation. The first module of the course covers the fundamental analytical tools, theories, and conceptual frameworks needed for price strategy formulation. Basic principles from marketing, economics, and psychology will be briefly reviewed and extended. The module provides an in-depth treatment of the role of price in the firm’s value proposition to the customer and the determination of customer response to price. The second module of the course covers pricing tactics with an emphasis on pricing in the digital domain.
Teaching
30 hours of seminars in the Winter Term.
This course has a reading week in Week 6 of Winter Term.
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Formative assessment
Students will be engaged in analysing several cases, doing numerical problems, and analysing data sets using the techniques learned in class. This will set the stage for their group project (gathering and analysing data) as well as the take-home assignment (which will involve numerical problems, case analysis, and analysing data sets). Students will be taking three short quizzes during the course of the term; these are meant to ensure a proper grasp of the concepts and tools covered in the lectures.
Indicative reading
- The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing: A Guide to Growing More Profitably (2010): Nagle, Hogan, and Zale, Prentice Hall.
- Pricing Information: How to customize both the product and the price (1998): Carl Schapiro and Hal Varian, Harvard Business School Chapters.
- 'Pricing as a Strategic Capability' (2002): Mark Bergen, Shantanu Dutta, Mark Ritson, Sloan Management Review.
Assessment
Project (40%)
This component of assessment includes an element of group work.
Short answer questions (45%)
Quiz (15%)
For detailed assessment information, including all deadlines and timings, please see the relevant course Moodle page. Assessment timings will be available at the start of each term.
Key facts
Department: Management
Course Study Period: Winter Term
Unit value: Half unit
FHEQ Level: Level 7
CEFR Level: Null
Total students 2024/25: 67
Average class size 2024/25: 67
Controlled access 2024/25: NoCourse selection videos
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Personal development skills
- Leadership
- Self-management
- Team working
- Problem solving
- Application of information skills
- Communication
- Application of numeracy skills
- Commercial awareness