This first-of-its-kind book develops a rigorous integrated theory of marketing under uncertainty. Cutting across traditional functional boundaries, the author develops behaviorally rich and empirically implementable solutions to fundamental but previously neglected strategic problems including:
coordinating marketing policy in a multiperiod framework under uncertainty
choosing optimal policy when the data contain measurement error
designing new products when consumers have heterogeneous attitudes to risk and uncertain perceptions
selecting personnel and measuring performance in...

The corporate world is typically structured in silos. Managers urgently need to overcome this "silo" effect by fusing ideas across different functional areas in the firm. In Fusion for Profit, Sharan Jagpal, a well-known and highly respected multidisciplinary researcher and business consultant, explains in simple language using real-world examples how managers can use sophisticated concepts to fuse different functional areas in the firm, especially marketing and finance, to increase the firm's value. The author provides novel solutions to a wide range of complex business problems...