Revenue Analytics: Price Optimization

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Accelerate Your Career in Revenue Analytics with the Wharton School

Revenue optimization is at the core of today's competitive marketing and sales strategies — and the most successful organizations are adopting data analytics tools and techniques to make the smartest forecast and pricing decisions. This is why revenue analytics professionals and other marketing professionals with tactical skills in analytical tools are highly sought after today.

You'll gain comprehensive knowledge of revenue optimization concepts for decision making using statistical, optimization, and economic tools. This program will also prepare you for a new and lucrative career with hands-on experience in applying various analytics tools and techniques to solve optimization problems across industries.

Organizations are ready to hire. Are you ready to take the next step to advance your career in revenue management? Secure your place in Wharton's Revenue Analytics: Price Optimization online program today.

9.6% is the expected compound annual growth rate for the global revenue management market from 2019 to 2024

Source: MarketsandMarkets

Who This Program Is For

Revenue Analytics: Price Optimization is designed to give participants hands-on experience in using data-analytics tactical tools for successful revenue-optimization strategies in a variety of business scenarios.

The program is ideal for:

  • Mid-to-senior management in business development, general management, and sales who are seeking new strategies for driving up business revenue and profitability
  • Category managers, product managers, and marketing managers who are challenged to develop new competitive strategies for revenue planning and management
  • Finance and revenue-planning managers who want to hone their forecasting of market trends and changes to support a more effective marketing strategy
  • Pricing analysts and business analysts who are challenged to design an elegant pricing approach for a product or service portfolio

Key Takeaways

  • Identify and understand the key problems solved by revenue-management analytics
  • Solve revenue-management problems using various models for revenue forecasting, statistical estimation, and optimization
  • Understand the economic and mathematical concepts of revenue management in different business contexts
  • Make business decisions and develop an optimal pricing strategy based on estimation data
  • Determine optimal pricing strategies to maximize business revenue
  • Drive product revenue by applying sales strategies such as discounting and bundling
  • Use analytics to forecast trends, risks, and challenges in existing and new markets and create strategies to manage them

Program Highlights

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Assignments

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Program Topics

Module 1:

Introduction to Revenue Management

Begin the program by learning the basics of revenue management and how data analytics have changed and transformed concepts and techniques over time.

Module 2:

Willingness to Pay/Demand Estimation and Pricing

Gain hands-on experience using revenue analytics to solve the problem of estimating demand and willingness to pay. Plus, use the results to price for optimized revenue.

Module 3:

Estimation Challenges in Revenue Management

Explore various statistical methods for overcoming typical estimation challenges, including estimating willingness to pay and censored data.

Module 4:

Dynamic Pricing

Learn how to estimate optimized revenue when dealing with multiple types of customers, such as discount and premium buyers with disparate buying habits.

Module 5:

Quantity-Based Revenue Management

Learn analytics strategies for quantity-based revenue management by exploring real-world revenue estimation challenges in the airline industry.

Module 6:

New Frontiers in Revenue Management

Explore the value of analytics to support optimized revenue-management decisions regarding auctions, overbooking practices, and two-sided platforms such as Airbnb.

Module 1:

Introduction to Revenue Management

Begin the program by learning the basics of revenue management and how data analytics have changed and transformed concepts and techniques over time.

Module 4:

Dynamic Pricing

Learn how to estimate optimized revenue when dealing with multiple types of customers, such as discount and premium buyers with disparate buying habits.

Module 2:

Willingness to Pay/Demand Estimation and Pricing

Gain hands-on experience using revenue analytics to solve the problem of estimating demand and willingness to pay. Plus, use the results to price for optimized revenue.

Module 5:

Quantity-Based Revenue Management

Learn analytics strategies for quantity-based revenue management by exploring real-world revenue estimation challenges in the airline industry.

Module 3:

Estimation Challenges in Revenue Management

Explore various statistical methods for overcoming typical estimation challenges, including estimating willingness to pay and censored data.

Module 6:

New Frontiers in Revenue Management

Explore the value of analytics to support optimized revenue-management decisions regarding auctions, overbooking practices, and two-sided platforms such as Airbnb.

Program Faculty

Faculty Member Noah Gans

Noah Gans, PhD

Anheuser-Busch Professor of Management Science; Professor of Operations Information and Decisions, The Wharton School

Noah Gans is the Anheuser-Busch Professor of Management Science and professor of Operations, Information and Decisions at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Noah’s research focuses on service operations, revenue management, and problems of stochastic optimization and statistical learning... More info

Faculty Member Senthil Veeraraghavan

Senthil Veeraraghavan

Panasonic Professor of Manufacturing and Logistics Professor of Operations, Information, and Decisions

Professor Veeraraghavan teaches a course in operations strategy in the Operations, Information, and Decisions Department. He also conducts research on service operations, pricing and operational design, and global supply chains, using theoretical models and data... More info

Guest Speakers

Faculty Member Jun Li

Jun Li

Associate Professor of Technology and Operations; Michael R. and Mary Kay Hallman Fellow, Stephen M. Ross School of Business

Professor Li is an associate professor of technology and operations at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. She conducts research in empirical operations management and business analytics that spans revenue management and pricing, health care management, supply chain risks, corporate social responsibility, and public sector operations. Professor Li specializes in causal inferences and structural estimation and in integrating economic modeling with statistical inferences. She has worked closely with airlines, hotels, retailers, and marketplace platforms to analyze user data and implement new pricing or inventory strategies. She holds a PhD in managerial economics and management science from Wharton and a bachelor’s degree in operations research and industrial engineering from Tsinghua University, China.

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Note: After successful completion of the online program, your verified digital certificate will be emailed to you in the name you used when registering for the program. All certificate images are for illustrative purposes only and may be subject to change at the discretion of the Wharton School. This online certificate program does not grant academic credit or a degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

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