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Utpal Dholakia

@ud

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George R. Brown Professor of Marketing at @RiceUniversity. I tweet mainly about marketing, pricing, & consumer welfare. (No, these topics are not incompatible)

Houston, TX

Joined July 2007

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Utpal Dholakia

@ud

6 years

New book now available on Amazon. #pricing #behavioraleconomics

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Utpal Dholakia

@ud

4 years

RT @WSJ: Companies are hoping to escape consumer backlash by making price increases hard to evaluate. Here are common ways companies raise….

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Utpal Dholakia

@ud

4 years

A set play. 👍🏾.

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4 years

The build up to the goal Lukaku scored today is the exact same build up to this goal as he scored in Inter😳

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Utpal Dholakia

@ud

4 years

If you want some idea of how completely broken healthcare pricing is in the US, read this article. How can you apply any framework or pricing process when there is no rhyme or reason to prices and no one seems to even know what they are? #pricing #healthcare #hospitals.

The New York Times

@nytimes

4 years

Read our full investigation and see if your hospital has posted its prices publicly.

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Utpal Dholakia

@ud

4 years

My new piece on the Harvard Business Review site on how to communicate price increases in the post-pandemic boom is out. Among others, avoid euphemistic messaging and use value narratives. #pricing #branding #marketing

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Utpal Dholakia

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4 years

Why do customers hate participating in surveys? A problem that needs some serious problem-solving. Here's my new piece from my Substack called "The Pricing Conundrum." Consider subscribing. It's free. #pricing #marketing #retail

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Utpal Dholakia

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4 years

RT @humble: Pay what you want for the Rockstar Games Humble Bundle and choose where your money goes!. https://t.co/….

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Utpal Dholakia

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4 years

Unbelievable.

Hemant Rajaura

@hemantrajora_

4 years

"My hospital is short of oxygen. After exhaustion all my resources I required my area DM to help. DM Office issued the threatening letter instead of helping. Is this the way to fight Covid by threatening doctors " ? .-.Dr VK Goyal, Director Panchsheel Hospital, Delhi. #COVID19

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Utpal Dholakia

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4 years

RT @hima_lakkaraju: As I struggled to deal with the impact of COVID on my family members in India, I got delayed by a day for submitting my….

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Utpal Dholakia

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5 years

My favorite pricing maxim for managers is “Smart pricing is raising your earned prices without raising your asking prices.” There are many ways to do this, but here are two that companies are using during the pandemic. #pricing #Covid19 #branding

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Utpal Dholakia

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5 years

RT @VancityReynolds: A match made in hell is still a @match. Latest work from @MaximumEffort #2020LoveStory

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Utpal Dholakia

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RT @bopinion: The strategies pursued by South Korea, Vietnam & China are paying off. As of Nov. 1, the cumulative death rate per million is….

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Utpal Dholakia

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5 years

Here's a case of clever brand-building and engaging customers with a political ad without a trace of partisanship. The campaign promotes a virtuous behavior that almost everyone can agree on in a memorable way. It's worth watching. #branding

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Utpal Dholakia

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5 years

RT @NateSilver538: This is not a subtweet of anyone in particular and it's going to annoy some people since I have a lot of PhD followers/f….

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Utpal Dholakia

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5 years

This falls in the category of: from adversity comes innovation & opportunity. Fueled by consumer behavior changes in food consumption, the new service category of shoppable recipes is booming.

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Utpal Dholakia

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5 years

Interesting pessimistic and even a bit concerning perspective on the efficacy of digital advertising & what it means for consumers. .

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Utpal Dholakia

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5 years

Interesting article about the economics of operating a vending machine business. 👍🏾.

Zachary Crockett

@zzcrockett

5 years

During the pandemic, a growing number of entrepreneurs have bought vending machines as a secondary income stream. I spoke with 20+ new operators and broke down the economics of the industry.