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Learn from Your Analytics Failures

Harvard Business Review

In pre-Big Data days, for example, a hotel chain used some pretty sophisticated mathematics, data mining, and time series analysis to coordinate its yield management pricing and promotion efforts. For the most part, local managers followed the yield management rules. Who’s Afraid of Data-Driven Management?

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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. We want to win. Learn how to run a regression analysis!

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