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- February 2001 (Revised November 2009)
- Case
Amazon.com (D)
By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Dickson Louie and William A. Sahlman
At the end of 1999, Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos--just named Time Magazine's Man of the Year--ponders the next moves for his company. Having expanded into numerous categories in 1999, ranging from Z-shops to Auctions to E-cards as well as increasing the number... View Details
Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Competitive Advantage; Expansion; Online Technology; Retail Industry
Rayport, Jeffrey F., Dickson Louie, and William A. Sahlman. "Amazon.com (D)." Harvard Business School Case 901-022, February 2001. (Revised November 2009.)
- February 2001 (Revised November 2009)
- Case
Amazon.com (C)
At the end of 1998, Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos ponders the next moves for his company. Having secured the leadership position as the leading online book seller in the United States, Amazon.com has now moved into the product categories of CDs and videos by... View Details
Keywords: Expansion; Internet and the Web; Business Growth and Maturation; Books; Growth and Development Strategy; Retail Industry; Germany; United Kingdom; United States
Rayport, Jeffrey F., and Dickson Louie. "Amazon.com (C)." Harvard Business School Case 901-021, February 2001. (Revised November 2009.)
- March 1997 (Revised April 1998)
- Case
Amazon.com (A)
Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon.com, an Internet-based bookseller, has created one of the most successful ventures for electronic commerce on the Web. With revenue growing at a pace of 30% per month, Bezos attributes the success of Amazon.com to its value... View Details
Rayport, Jeffrey F., and Dickson Louie. "Amazon.com (A)." Harvard Business School Case 897-128, March 1997. (Revised April 1998.)
- April 2012 (Revised October 2013)
- Supplement
eBay, Inc. and Amazon.com (B)
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Anant Thaker
A decade after BusinessWeek declared the competitive battle between eBay, Inc., and Amazon.com "a defining moment for e-commerce," Amazon established itself as the leader. eBay must decide what strategy to use in order to regain the upper hand: maintain its current... View Details
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Anant Thaker. "eBay, Inc. and Amazon.com (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 712-406, April 2012. (Revised October 2013.)
- April 1998 (Revised February 2001)
- Case
Amazon.com (B)
Discusses Amazon.com's newest and biggest challenge: The threat of Barnes & Noble's entrance into the on-line bookselling industry with its new site--barnesandnoble.com. View Details
Rayport, Jeffrey F., and Dickson Louie. "Amazon.com (B)." Harvard Business School Case 898-084, April 1998. (Revised February 2001.)
- April 2012 (Revised October 2013)
- Case
eBay, Inc. and Amazon.com (A)
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Anant Thaker
This case has been designed to explore strategic interactions among organizations with different business models. The case considers how a competitor successfully challenged the incumbent in a platform market defined by strong network effects and high switching costs.... View Details
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Anant Thaker. "eBay, Inc. and Amazon.com (A)." Harvard Business School Case 712-405, April 2012. (Revised October 2013.)
- June 2000 (Revised September 2004)
- Exercise
Amazon.com Valuation Exercise
Designed to accompany Amazon.com: Exploiting the Value of a Digital Business Infrastructure. View Details
Keywords: Valuation
Applegate, Lynda M. "Amazon.com Valuation Exercise." Harvard Business School Exercise 800-441, June 2000. (Revised September 2004.)
- March 2001 (Revised November 2002)
- Supplement
Amazon.com Update: January 2001- July 2002
Updates the Amazon.com series (9-800-330), (9-800-441), and (9-801-194). View Details
Applegate, Lynda M. "Amazon.com Update: January 2001- July 2002." Harvard Business School Supplement 801-392, March 2001. (Revised November 2002.)
- June 2000 (Revised February 2003)
- Teaching Note
Amazon.com Series TN
By: Lynda M. Applegate and Meredith Collura
Teaching Note for (9-800-330), (9-800-441), (9-801-194), and (9-801-392). View Details
- January 2019
- Case
Walmart's Online Challenge: Amazon.com
By: Rembrand Koning
Koning, Rembrand. "Walmart's Online Challenge: Amazon.com." Harvard Business School Case 719-461, January 2019.
- January 2018 (Revised October 2021)
- Case
Walmart Inc. takes on Amazon.com
By: David Collis, Andy Wu, Rembrand Koning and Huaiyi CiCi Sun
This case explores how Walmart should compete with Amazon. View Details
Collis, David, Andy Wu, Rembrand Koning, and Huaiyi CiCi Sun. "Walmart Inc. takes on Amazon.com." Harvard Business School Case 718-481, January 2018. (Revised October 2021.)
- 20 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Independent Bookstores Have Thrived in Spite of Amazon.com
Click HereIndependent bookstores provide a story of hope by focusing on core values that include community, curation, and convening. (Video by Amelia Kunhardt) When Amazon.com burst onto the nascent online retail scene in 1995, the future seemed bleak for... View Details
- June 2001
- Case
Amazon.com in the Year 2001: The Question of Going Concern
By: Krishna G. Palepu and Jeremy Cott
Supplements Amazon.com in the Year 2000. View Details
Keywords: Web Services Industry
Palepu, Krishna G., and Jeremy Cott. "Amazon.com in the Year 2001: The Question of Going Concern." Harvard Business School Case 101-112, June 2001.
- February 2020
- Teaching Note
Walmart Inc. Takes on Amazon.com
By: David J. Collis, Andy Wu and Rembrand Koning
Teaching Note for HBS No. 718-481. View Details
- April 2012
- Teaching Note
eBay, Inc. and Amazon.com (TN) (A) and (B)
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Anant Thaker
- June 2001 (Revised July 2001)
- Case
Amazon.com in the Year 2000
By: Krishna G. Palepu and Jeremy Cott
An analyst's critique of Amazon's prospectus from the perspective of its bond holders. View Details
Keywords: Bonds; Accounting Audits; Financial Reporting; Governing and Advisory Boards; Internet and the Web; Forecasting and Prediction; Retail Industry
Palepu, Krishna G., and Jeremy Cott. "Amazon.com in the Year 2000." Harvard Business School Case 101-045, June 2001. (Revised July 2001.)
- July 2003
- Teaching Note
Amazon.com in the Year 2000 (TN)
- April 2001 (Revised November 2009)
- Teaching Note
(TN) Amazon.com (A), (B), (C), and (D)
By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Dickson Louie and William A. Sahlman
Teaching Note for (9-897-128), (9-898-084), (9-901-021), and (9-901-022). For book only. View Details
- October 2018
- Article
Competing with Complementors: An Empirical Look at Amazon.com
By: Feng Zhu and Qihong Liu
Platform owners sometimes enter complementors' product spaces to compete against them directly. Prior studies have offered two possible explanations for such entries: platform owners may target the most successful complementors so as to appropriate value from their... View Details
Keywords: Amazon; Complementors; Co-opetition; Entry; Platform-based Markets; Competition; Digital Platforms; Competitive Strategy
Zhu, Feng, and Qihong Liu. "Competing with Complementors: An Empirical Look at Amazon.com." Strategic Management Journal 39, no. 10 (October 2018): 2618–2642.
- May 1998 (Revised March 2004)
- Case
Leadership Online (A): Barnes & Noble vs. Amazon.com
Describes the attempt of a traditional retailer, Barnes & Noble, to counter the challenges posed by an Internet-based start-up, Amazon.com. View Details
Ghemawat, Pankaj, and Bret J. Baird. "Leadership Online (A): Barnes & Noble vs. Amazon.com." Harvard Business School Case 798-063, May 1998. (Revised March 2004.)