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A Refresher on A/B Testing

Harvard Business

In this case, let’s say your metric is the number of visitors who click on the button. To run the test, you show two sets of users (assigned at random when they visit the site) the different versions (where the only thing different is the size of the button) and determine which influenced your success metric the most.

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Prioritize Your Opportunities with This Checklist

Harvard Business

The world is replete with SWOT mechanisms for evaluating a prospective new product offering, as well as opportunity assessment templates for evaluating a project against overall business goals, customer impact, strategic potential, and competitive urgency. Your Team’s Time Management Problem Might Be a Focus Problem.

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What If Companies Managed People as Carefully as They Manage Money?

Harvard Business

Today’s executives spend a lot of time managing the balance sheet, despite the fact that it doesn’t represent their company’s scarcest resource. According to Bain’s Macro Trends Group, the global supply of capital stands at nearly 10 times global GDP. Vincent Tsui for HBR. There you have it.

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How to Pass the McKinsey Problem Solving Game

CaseInterview.com

Time management is certainly a factor. Some candidates finish early, while others don’t complete it in time. However, McKinsey is more focused on your critical thinking skills and what you display during that time rather than how quickly you can complete each task. The first is a constrained optimization mini-game.

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How Marketers Can Connect Profit and Purpose

Harvard Business

And in 2011, Nathaniel Foote and Russ Eisenstat proposed a “better way to manage in the 21st century.” For the last six years, we have worked with a group of top marketing executives and business leaders in Silicon Valley and the Bay Area from companies large and small.

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4 Organizational Mistakes That Plague Modern Knowledge Workers

Harvard Business

And yet in my work with clients, I often discover old ideas about time management that don’t take this new reality into account. Is it common at your company for email to be used for urgent and time-sensitive communications? Does he have a dedicated workspace that’s conducive to productivity ?

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Help Your Team Achieve Work-Life Balance — Even When You Can’t

Harvard Business

It wasn’t until I moved to Paris in 1997 to become Finance Manager for Disney Consumer Products Europe, Middle East, and Africa that I experienced someone setting a non-negotiable boundary for herself. But so did my peers, whether or not they had children, partners, or aging parents. It was just the industry and firm norm.