If you are thinking about how to better run a global marketing organization, you must take three minutes and read about an experiment run by Loren Carpenter back in 1991.
On each occasion that the experiment is run the detector is struck hundreds of thousands of times.
The experiment was run first as a series of six rounds in which the participants were anonymous, investment decisions were taken simultaneously, and no two participants interacted more than once.
This is an important lesson because Obama wants to run this experiment in reverse.
But that hardly means we should run the experiment again and at larger scale.
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For the last three years, Vojinovic has run an experiment in his club, Red Star Belgrade.
Her experiment began during the run-up to the presidential election of 2008.
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So they decided to run yet another experiment: They recruited another 62 analysts and gave them the same company information.
Hurst had run the same experiment many times, with different kinds of liquid accelerants, and the result was always the same.
Congress has run the homebuyer credit experiment twice in the past two years.
And The New York Times has limited its participation to top stories for the time being, saying it wants to run its own paid experiment before it commits further.
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This year, the league has a new Chief Marketing Officer in Michael Hand, who will run the point on an experiment called the MiLB Project Brand initiative, which is designed to enhance franchise values and create significant integrated sponsorship platforms by unleashing the combined, previously untapped power of all 160 affiliated MiLB clubs.
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An experiment at a primary school in Liverpool - run by "sonic branding" company Condiment Junkie, Glyndwr University and architects Nightingale Associates - found that playing pupils a soundscape of birdsong and other natural sounds made them more alert and better able to concentrate after their lunch break.
In this experiment, which was originally a thought experiment but has recently been conducted, time seems to run backward.
One of the big things that makes Scotland's experiment with devolution significant for England is that it is run by a coalition government.
Asking the right questions is probably the most important part of the thought process and it turns out you can run a company successfully as a data science experiment if you ask questions.
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The best thing you can about Dell's attempt to compete with Apple 's iPod line is that the experiment ended in August 2006 after a roughly three-year run.
The best thing you can about Dell's attempt to compete with Apple 's (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) iPod line is that the experiment ended in August 2006 after a roughly three-year run.
This was both insurance against another run on the rupiah and part of China's experiment with using the yuan as an international currency.
Steve Jobs would never have kept a product that continues to lose money because in the long run, other companies will overtake it with better products and it would just be a giant failed experiment.
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Or consider how Honest Tea, the organic tea company that is an independently run wholly owned subsidiary of Coca-Cola, combined web video technology and a thought-provoking purchase experiment to cut through the clutter in the over-crowded beverage market.
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