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Author Simon, Hermann.

Title Manage for profit, not for market share : a guide to greater profits in highly contested markets / Hermann Simon, Frank F. Bilstein, Frank Luby
Published Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business School Press, [2006]
©2006

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Description 232 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents Choose profit over market share -- Learn to compete peacefully -- Change the way you form your assumptions -- Use your own internal data to find profit opportunities -- Use external research to reveal customers preferences and willingness to pay -- Optimize your marketing mix in order to capture the highest additional profit -- Raise your prices to get the profit you deserve -- Don't ingratiate yourself to customers -- Align your incentives to focus on profit -- Get your market communication under control
Summary "In Manage for Profit, Not for Market Share, the authors contend that companies can extract a profit potential of 1 to 3 percent of annual revenue by adopting a radically different approach. The key? Reconfigure the marketing mix to sell existing products and services in counter-intuitive ways."--BOOK JACKET
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Profit.
Profit -- Case studies.
Industrial management -- Case studies.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Author Bilstein, Frank F., 1971-
Luby, Frank, 1964-
LC no. 2005037019
ISBN 1591395267 perm. paper