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Feb 2020
23m 51s

How to Set Up — and Learn — from Experim...

Harvard Business Review
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Stefan Thomke, professor at Harvard Business School, says running experiments can give companies tremendous value, but too often business leaders make decisions based on intuition. While A/B testing on large transaction volumes is common practice at Google, Booking.com, and Netflix, Thomke says even small firms can get a competitive advantage from experiment ... Show More
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