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How an NBA Team Thinks About Data, Talent, and Pricing

Harvard Business Review

We talk about things like yield management, demand curves, and perishable inventory — factors that dictate our pricing strategies. If you could give your younger self one piece of career advice, what would it be? We’re working with unprecedented levels of data. Learn how to run a regression analysis!

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Five Good Reasons to Champion Auto-Analytics in Your Organization

Harvard Business Review

In heeding their advice today you can do a lot more than simply measure out your life with coffee spoons, to borrow a line from T.S. However, using personal data (emails, calendars, etc) and spreadsheets, some practitioners are developing personal yield management tools. How do you quantify your life?