A Smarter Way to Run Business Experiments

Too many companies try out new ideas without knowing how to properly test them, a Harvard professor explains

Stefan Thomke
Marker
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9 min readFeb 24, 2020

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A woman looks at her laptop deep in thought, looking at the results of a business experiment.
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InIn 2016, Jeff Bezos gave shareholders a rare insight into Amazon’s innovation engine. In his annual letter, he explained: “I believe we are the best place in the world to fail (we have plenty of practice!), and…

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Stefan Thomke
Marker
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Stefan Thomke, an authority on the management of innovation, is the William Barclay Harding Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.