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A Step-by-Step Guide to Smart Business Experiments (Spanish version)
Anderson, Eric T.; Simester, DuncanArticle HBS-R1103HMarketingTake one action with one group of customers, a different action (or no action at all) with a control group of customers, and then compare the results. The feedback from even a handful of experiments can yield immediate and dramatic improvements. In this article, the authors provide a step-by-step guide to conducting business experiments. They look at organizational obstacles to success and outline seven rules to follow.Starting at €8.20
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Prediction Markets at Google (Spanish version)
Coles, Peter A.; Lakhani, Karim R.; McAfee, AndrewCase HBS-612S12Information TechnologiesIn its eight quarters of operation, Google's internally developed prediction market has delivered accurate and decisive predictions about future events of interest to the company. Google must now determine how to increase participation in the market, and how to best use its predictions.Starting at €8.20
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A Step-by-Step Guide to Smart Business Experiments
Anderson, Eric T.; Simester, DuncanArticle HBS-R1103H-EMarketingThe power of analytics in decision making is well understood, but few companies have what it takes to successfully implement a complex analytics program. Most firms will get greater value from learning to do something simpler: basic business experiments. Managers need to become adept at routinely using techniques employed by scientists and medical researchers. Specifically, they need to embrace the "test and learn" approach: Take one action with ...Starting at €8.20
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Escaping the Discount Trap (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Anderson, Eric T.Article HBS-R1309L-EMarketingBrazilian medical-devices maker Bosi e Faora has seen its prices decline as its sales reps scramble to sign up clinics by offering steep discounts. The company aims to turn things around with a "solutions" strategy that, along with medical equipment, offers ideas and training to health care providers that want to improve patients' overall health, not just purchase hardware. When one semirural but influential customer resists the upsell at a high-...Starting at €8.20
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Escaping the Discount Trap (HBR Case Study)
Anderson, Eric T.Article HBS-R1309X-EMarketingBrazilian medical-devices maker Bosi e Faora has seen its prices decline as its sales reps scramble to sign up clinics by offering steep discounts. The company aims to turn things around with a "solutions" strategy that, along with medical equipment, offers ideas and training to health care providers that want to improve patients' overall health, not just purchase hardware. When one semirural but influential customer resists the upsell at a high-...Starting at €8.20
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Escaping the Discount Trap (Commentary for HBR Case Study)
Anderson, Eric T.Article HBS-R1309Z-EMarketingBrazilian medical-devices maker Bosi e Faora has seen its prices decline as its sales reps scramble to sign up clinics by offering steep discounts. The company aims to turn things around with a "solutions" strategy that, along with medical equipment, offers ideas and training to health care providers that want to improve patients' overall health, not just purchase hardware. When one semirural but influential customer resists the upsell at a high-...Starting at €8.20
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Synthetic Biology Investment Opportunity
Barrett, Peter; Lakhani, Karim R.; Kelley, Julia; Herman, KerryCase HBS-620015-EInformation TechnologiesStarting at €8.20
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How Connections, Sensors, and Data Are Revolutionizing Business (Spanish version)
Iansiti, Marco; Lakhani, Karim R.Article HBS-R1411DInformation TechnologiesAdding digital sensors to its machines, connecting them to a common, cloud-based software platform, investing in software development capabilities, building advanced analytics capabilities, and embracing crowd-based product development. With all this, GE is evolving its business model. Now, for example, revenue from its jet engines is tied to reduced downtime and miles flown over the course of a year. After just three years, GE is generating mor...Starting at €8.20
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The Truth About Blockchain (Spanish version)
Iansiti, Marco; Lakhani, Karim R.Article HBS-R1701JInformation TechnologiesContracts, transactions, and records of them provide critical structure in our economic system, but they haven't kept up with the world's digital transformation. They're like rush-hour gridlock trapping a Formula 1 race car. Blockchain promises to solve this problem. The technology behind bitcoin, blockchain is an open, distributed ledger that records transactions safely, permanently, and very efficiently. For instance, while the transfer of a ...Starting at €8.20
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Digital Ubiquity: How Connections, Sensors, and Data Are Revolutionizing Business
Iansiti, Marco; Lakhani, Karim R.Article HBS-R1411D-EInformation TechnologiesWhen Google bought Nest, a digital thermostat and smoke detector company, for $3.2 billion just a few months ago, it was a clear indication that digital transformation and connection are reaching critical mass, spreading across even the most traditional industrial segments and creating a staggering array of business opportunities and threats. The digitization of tasks and processes has become essential to competition. General Electric, for exampl...Starting at €8.20