This case is designed to be part of the first year of marketing, or a second-year MBA elective in advertising, integrated marketing communications, market research, analytics and marketing. Housing provides students with examples of two commercial real experiments and problems associated with the implementation of the experiments. This allows the discussion of the need to promote experimentation, and, in a more general level, it is necessary to measure the impact of marketing. Prejudices surrounding field experiments can discuss problems with establishing a causal link between advertising and sales. "Hide
by Rajkumar Venkatesan, Paul W. Farris Source: University of Virginia Darden School Foundation 12 pages. Publication Date: February 13, 2008. Prod. #: UV2965-PDF-ENG