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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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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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The Captor Opportunity (A)
Valentí Vidal, Albert; González Rodríguez, Jorge; Reutskaja Pastushkova, Elena; Mendoza, ErnestCase M-1397-EMarketingCarbon Purity (CP) acquired Captor Materials S.L. (CM). The main asset of Captor Materials was a patented technology for the removal of nitrogen oxides (NOx). Accumulated exposure to NOx causes gradual health deterioration in employees exposed to these gases. The new Captor technology, which helps remove these NOx, is extremely valuable and can be implemented in a number of sectors where NOx are to be removed from gases. CP identified several mar...Starting at €8.20
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AéroTec Systèmes y la carrera del turismo espacial
Rocha e Oliveira, Paulo; Capizzani, Mario; Valentí Vidal, Albert; Reutskaja Pastushkova, ElenaCase M-1395Marketing, Service and Operations ManagementUn grupo de ingenieros de AéroTec ha terminado de diseñar un vehículo espacial llamado Navigateur y ahora tienen que elaborar un plan de marketing para esta nueva experiencia innovadora. El Navigateur se diferencia de las ofertas que existen en la actualidad para realizar viajes espaciales comerciales en que ofrece una experiencia visual muy superior, mayor comodidad y menos necesidad de entrenamiento y de aptitudes físicas. AéroTec, una empresa ...Starting at €8.20
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The Captor Opportunity (C)
Valentí Vidal, Albert; González Rodríguez, Jorge; Reutskaja Pastushkova, Elena; Mendoza, ErnestCase M-1399-EMarketingCarbon Purity (CP) acquired Captor Materials S.L. (CM). The main asset of Captor Materials was a patented technology for the removal of nitrogen oxides (NOx). Accumulated exposure to NOx causes gradual health deterioration in employees exposed to these gases. The new Captor technology, which helps remove these NOx, is extremely valuable and can be implemented in a number of sectors where NOx are to be removed from gases. CP identified several mar...Starting at €5.74
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The Captor Opportunity (B)
Valentí Vidal, Albert; González Rodríguez, Jorge; Reutskaja Pastushkova, Elena; Mendoza, ErnestCase M-1398-EMarketingCarbon Purity (CP) acquired Captor Materials S.L. (CM). The main asset of Captor Materials was a patented technology for the removal of nitrogen oxides (NOx). Accumulated exposure to NOx causes gradual health deterioration in employees exposed to these gases. The new Captor technology, which helps remove these NOx, is extremely valuable and can be implemented in a number of sectors where NOx are to be removed from gases. CP identified several mar...Starting at €5.74
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AéroTec Systèmes and the Space Tourism Race
Rocha e Oliveira, Paulo; Capizzani, Mario; Valentí Vidal, Albert; Reutskaja Pastushkova, ElenaCase M-1395-EMarketing, Service and Operations ManagementA group of engineers at AéroTec has finalized the design of a space vehicle called the Navigateur and they must now devise a marketing plan for this innovative new experience. The Navigateur differs from currently available offerings in commercial space travel in that it provides a highly superior visual experience, greater comfort, and lower training and physical fitness requirements. AéroTec, a business-to-business firm with no experience in co...Starting at €8.20