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Economics Experiments in the Tech Industry

Event Details:

Monday, May 8, 2017
8:00am - 6:30pm PDT

Location

¹ÏÌïºÚÁÏGunn Building
Koret-Taube Conference Center
366 Galvez St.
Stanford, CA 94305
United States

Admission

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Schedule

Monday, May 8, 2017

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    Breakfast

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    Welcome and Introduction

    Mark Duggan, ¹ÏÌïºÚÁÏ, SIEPR
    Gopi Shah Goda, ¹ÏÌïºÚÁÏ, SIEPR
    Mike Luca, Harvard Business School, SIEPR

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    Session I: An Overview of Experiments at Tech Companies

    Steve McBride, Netflix
    Emily Sands, Coursera
    Kostya Kashin, Facebook
    Bar Ifrach, Airbnb 

    Moderator: 

    Muriel Niederle, ¹ÏÌïºÚÁÏ, SIEPR

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    Break

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    Session II: Advertising Experiments

    Daisy Dai, Lehigh University
    Navdeep Sahni, Stanford GSB
    Michael Ostrovsky, Stanford GSB

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    Session III: Keynote: From Data to Decisions: A Conversation with Geoff Donaker

    Geoff Donaker, former COO, Yelp
    Matt Gentzkow, ¹ÏÌïºÚÁÏ, SIEPR

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    Lunch

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    Session IV: Improving Hiring with Behavioral Science

    Kate Glazebrook, Applied
    Paul Oyer, Stanford University GSB, SIEPR

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    Session V: Bringing Economics Into Tech

    Joe Golden, Collage

    Mike Bailey, Facebook

    Steve Tadelis, UC Berkeley, Amazon

    Duncan Gilchrist, Uber
    Peter Coles, Airbnb

    Moderator: 

    Gabriel Weintraub, Stanford GSB

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    Break

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    Session VI: Marketplace Experiments

    Sarah Moshary, University of Pennsylvania
    Mike Luca, Harvard Business School, SIEPR

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    Research Speed Talks

    Nikhil Naik, Harvard
    Dara Lee Luca, Mathematica Policy Research
    Jonathan Hall, Uber
    Ramesh Johari, ¹ÏÌïºÚÁÏ
    Bobak Pakzad-Hurson, ¹ÏÌïºÚÁÏ

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    Wrap Up and Next Steps

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    Reception and Poster Session

    Andrew Hillis, Harvard

    Daniel Brown, Harvard

    Hyunjin Kim, Harvard

    Chris Poliquin, Harvard

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