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Summary.
“In a dramatic departure from its historic role as an esoteric tool for academic research, the randomized controlled trial has gone mainstream.” — Michael Luca and Max H. Bazerman
A fundamental shift in the way businesses make decisions is taking place. Traditionally, running experiments and abiding by the scientific method has been the domain of scientists, but managers across industries have been adopting cultures of experimentation to inform their decisions at an unprecedented scale.