Economics Experiments in the Tech Industry

Monday, May 8, 2017

• 8:00am - 8:30am PDT

  Breakfast

• 8:30am - 9:00am PDT

  Welcome and Introduction

  Mark Duggan, Stanford University, SIEPR
  Gopi Shah Goda, Stanford University, SIEPR
  Mike Luca, Harvard Business School, SIEPR

• 9:00am - 10:00am PDT

  Session I: An Overview of Experiments at Tech Companies

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

  Moderator: 

  Muriel Niederle, Stanford University, SIEPR

• 10:00am - 10:30am PDT

  Break

• 10:30am - 11:15am PDT

  Session II: Advertising Experiments

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

• 11:15am - 12:00pm PDT

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

  Geoff Donaker, former COO, Yelp
  Matt Gentzkow, Stanford University, SIEPR

• 12:00pm - 1:00pm PDT

  Lunch

• 1:00pm - 1:45pm PDT

  Session IV: Improving Hiring with Behavioral Science

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

• 1:45pm - 2:45pm PDT

  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

• 2:45pm - 3:00pm PDT

  Break

• 3:00pm - 3:45pm PDT

  Session VI: Marketplace Experiments

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

• 3:45pm - 5:00pm PDT

  Research Speed Talks

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

• 5:00pm - 5:30pm PDT

  Wrap Up and Next Steps

• 5:30pm - 6:30pm PDT

  Reception and Poster Session

  Andrew Hillis, Harvard

  Daniel Brown, Harvard

  Hyunjin Kim, Harvard

  Chris Poliquin, Harvard