While I'm a big fan of discounting and price competition, I think the responsibility for pricing decisions should rest with authors and publishers.
This state of confusion is astonishing, considering that economists have transformed the study of firms' other pricing decisions almost into an exact science.
Notably, pricing decisions can depend on a product's expected reliability.
As a result, he has developed models that allow them to look ahead, integrating their factory-location and pricing decisions in a way that anticipates rivals' responses, and leaves fewer profit opportunities wasted.
Similarly, we should expect that, at the end of the day, pricing and coverage decisions under Obamacare will be made politically.
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Corporate law departments are increasingly pressured by CEOs to demonstrate business-centric results, and law firms are being asked to provide greater clarity around pricing and staffing decisions.
That's a complex job, involving regional pricing, marketing and advertising decisions, and Coke's recent performance has been spotty.
Analytics should drive better decisions relative to pricing, fraud protection and revenue optimization.
We are hopeful that our pricing actions, combined with our capacity decisions, will help us get back to more stable price declines in the coming quarters.
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Everything from not formalizing your legal structure early on, to pricing options without a 409A, to making bad co-founder decisions, can create significant issues for a company down the road.
And while Mr Quest said BHA is aware of the danger of over-pricing, many hotels are independently owned and businesses make their own commercial decisions.
Conversely, to the extent that investors do not presently own shares whose price might be altered by good or bad information, the proper pricing of those shares thanks to the inside investor acting on quality information enables buyers to make better informed decisions about whether or not to buy.
We are not dumping stuff on the market, and we're not going to make stupid decisions, but there are things that we think have reached their height in the life cycle given rational pricing.
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