15Five

JANUARY 25, 2024

Behaviorally anchored rating scale (BARS) BARS is a scale that assesses employee performance based on predefined behavioral statements and patterns directly tied to job performance. Drawbacks: Developing BARS can be time-intensive, and creating universally applicable scales for all positions may be challenging.

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Implementation Scaling Metrics A/B Testing 52

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2017

One of the most common methods, particularly in online settings, is A/B testing. What Is A/B Testing? A/B testing, at its most basic, is a way to compare two versions of something to figure out which performs better. A/B testing, in its current form, came into existence in the 1990s.

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A/B Testing Metrics Software Sales 8

Get Lighthouse

DECEMBER 15, 2022

So they let the data do the talking and ran an A/B test. They regularly encourage employees to interview for jobs at other companies; it helps everyone know their market value and make sure they're happy with the job they have. In the case of Netflix, that included admitting when you're wrong, even publicly.

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Andrew Chen

JUNE 25, 2019

I’ve had folks over to 1455 Market St, the headquarters of Uber, and I’ve reciprocated with visits to the Airbnb offices too. Importantly, both companies are tremendous growth stories, and have needed to grow both demand but especially supply in all of their markets globally. Once you reach scale, fraud becomes a real issue.

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Retention User Experience Travel Marketing 48

Andrew Chen

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Content marketing. The origin of the Michelin Guide and why content marketing still works. If the below deck is the macro view of how I’m looking at markets, industries, and technologies, then the metrics deck gives my POV on how to diligence each company. You can use radio ads to market the TV. Viral growth.

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Media Advertising Scaling Marketing 40

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

It’s been several years now since this experience debuted and yet few have replicated a similar experience at this scale, despite its powerful appeal: the giver feels empowered for giving the item, and the taker feels the thrill of getting a surprise from a friend or stranger. This isn’t groundbreaking thinking.

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Marketing A/B Testing Advertising Scaling 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2012

billion consumers around the globe have an account on a social networking site and almost one in five online hours is spent on social networks), marketing departments have increasingly shifted their attention to social media. With consumers spending gobs of time in online communities ( more than 1.5 trillion annually.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

Companies can also rent their business applications (for accounting and finance, human resource management, marketing and sales, collaboration, project management, and so forth) on-demand from companies like Microsoft, Salesforce.com, Workday, Hubspot, Yammer, Dropbox, Basecamp and others. It has several key benefits: Speeds time-to-market.

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A/B Testing Travel Engineering Human Resources 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

On average, roughly four times as many winners – defined in this case as those companies that grew absolute revenue at a significant rate and gained market share within their industry over the previous two years – as losers have digital tools embedded into their core commercial capabilities. Zero-base sales capacity.

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Sales Sales B2B Accounts 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Depending on the engineering background of these data scientists, these work products are either deployed directly to the production system, or if they are prototypes they are handed off to software engineers to help implement, optimize and scale them. The elusive full stack data scientists do exist, though they are hard to find. Who to hire.

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Engineering Workflows User Experience Software 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

But when there is compelling evidence and big potential, the data scientist moves on to more rigorous methods like randomized controlled trials or A/B Testing, which can provide evidence of causal impact. ” a marketer might ask. Don’t bury it under another department like marketing, product, finance, etc.

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A/B Testing Engineering Metrics Implementation 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2014

There are real benefits to this real-time business capability: getting to market faster, capturing value quicker, more immediate responsiveness to customer needs. To test new software before release, managers of large projects use elaborate test procedures run by teams of “quality assurance” professionals.

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Software A/B Testing Scaling Operations 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2016

We then tested our conclusions in a large-scale field experiment with the Booth School of Business’s alumni fundraising campaign. Ideally, this would involve A/B testing that varies the default amount, along with a no-default control group. How can you determine the best default for a specific campaign?

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A/B Testing Nonprofit Compensation Scaling 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2016

Note that the number of wells here is pretty small compared with an experiment, for example, where you’re showing 1,000 potential customers a new marketing campaign. If this sorting of participants sounds like A/B testing , that’s because they’re similar. So let’s put it all together.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2018

To this end, they will need to move from pilot programs to large-scale efforts routinely offered across the care spectrum. When formal research trials aren’t practical, providers will need to embrace A/B testing and learn to more rapidly evaluate the effectiveness and scalability of these technologies.

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Staffing A/B Testing Rollout Hospitality 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2015

In fact, determining price is one of the toughest things a marketer has to do, in large part because it has such a big impact on the company’s bottom line. As she explains in her “ Marketing Analysis Toolkit: Pricing and Profitability Analysis ,” there are five zones of elasticity. What is price elasticity?

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Marketing A/B Testing Metrics Manager 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

If we're launching a new type of bicycle and we want to know how likely it is that this person is a bicycle rider, we would apply that score, saying: here's the likelihood that this person is a bicycle rider in the market for a new bike. Definitely the scale. So we'll do a lot of A/B testing with online ads.

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A/B Testing Marketing Education Operations 10

Andrew Chen

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

In the podcast, we cover a broad overview of growth/marketing topics, including: The natural “gravity” that slows down high-growth businesses. Organic, paid marketing, and LTV/CAC. Sonal: How do you determine what’s what when you don’t have product-market fit? Why blended CAC numbers are misleading.

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Marketing Metrics Retention eCommerce 75

Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

The reason for this is that the steps for starting and scaling a new startup share many of the same skills as investing in a new startup: 1) First, we seek to understand the existing state of customer growth – including growth loops, the quality of acquisition, engagement, churn, and monetization. This term dominates.

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Metrics Scaling Marketing Accounts 111

Andrew Chen

AUGUST 10, 2023

The easy answer that people generally want to here either falls into the camp of: This next magic feature will fix all our growth problems –The PM We need to spend more money on marketing –The Marketer Have you considered adding more AI? All while churn continues to creep up over time as a percentage.

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Retention Metrics Scaling Marketing 80

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2016

The speed and scale on which this is occurring helps us recognize that we are not in a cyclical downturn as corporations attempt to compensate for the disruptive impact of digital technology. Simply stated, it’s harder to make money by working or creating value when the scales tip too far in favor of investors and shareholders.

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High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

He and his colleagues spend their productive hours scaling large distributed file systems. In this article, I will share the current architecture and some of the lessons we learned scaling it along with some of the things we are looking to improve upon in the near future. How do you market your product? Introduction.

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