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- 29 Jan 2021
- News
Holding Business to Account
behind-the-scenes work of impact investment firms and the wins that aren’t so public. “There’s been so much work done with regard to indigenous people’s rights everywhere, from the Amazon to the Dakota Access Pipeline,” she says by way of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
they experience the cultural, sexual, and student revolutions and the music of the age. The Inner Lives of Markets: How People Shape Them—And They Shape Us by Ray Fisman (PhDBE 1998) and Tim Sullivan (PublicAffairs) Breakthrough companies like View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Getting the Message
Amazon books on its site. The affiliate then receives a commission for books Amazon sells through these links. Barter exchanges, also called link exchanges, entail the trading (with no money exchanged) of... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
HBS Curricula Explore the Complexities of Innovation
Capital Tech Opportunities who invests in B2B software companies in the late-stage growth phase. Hopkins cites an example that was brought to life in a case discussion attended by the protagonist, a founder of a company who had placed his product on View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 08 Mar 2018
- News
HBSAAA Leads the Way in Celebrating African American Alumni Impact
part of it, but at the core, these ads are a very strategic exercise. They reveal what’s happening competitively in an industry.” So how did the ads fare, according to the Kellogg students? Of the 39 non-network advertisers reviewed, top performers were View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
How Sports Should Use Its Timeout
what the consumer wants at the end of the day. If I can order bird seed with three clicks because I just feel like it and my mobile app on Amazon allows me to do that and my card's connected, why can't you do that in sports? So those are... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
by Alex Sherman and Mike Sherman (MBA 1986) Amazon Digital Services LLC This book provides 52 real-life anecdotes that illustrate important learnings about customer analytics. It draws from the worlds of big data and customer insights to... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Digitalization: The Key to the Future of HBS
Administration and the founder and codirector of the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard University. "Our stakeholders expect HBS to be excellent when it comes to their digitally mediated interactions." In this conversation, Lakhani speaks about the lessons... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
big-screen subscriptions for cable or any of the many streaming services, from Amazon to Hulu, that people are consuming in their evening hours—a market against which Whitman says they are not in direct competition. The founders worked... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
Cornell works for Blue Origin, where she is head of astronaut strategy and sales and supports engine sales for the space exploration company. Along with a few dozen fellow employees, all dressed in royal blue company polo shirts—including founder and View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 20 Dec 2019
- News
The 19 Musts of 2019
“After 66 countries, I’m a firm believer in the Visited app, which allows you to easily plot and plan the expansion of your horizons.” Courtesy source Courtesy source —Kwame Jackson (MBA 2000), speaker, entrepreneur, and consultant MUST DOWNLOAD View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
funds." A few years later, he adds, big acquisitions and IPOs started happening in the MENA region, catalyzing a virtuous cycle of entrepreneurial activity and investment: Amazon acquired Souq for $580 million in 2017 and Uber purchased... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
and advice of the world’s top professional investors. LIFE: A Handbook for Our Loved Ones By Rudy Chen Setiawan (MBA 1996) Amazon Kindle “Set your life on fire, and seek those who fan your flames.” —Rumi The most important act of our... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
risk-adjusted outcomes? Morrell: Look, it’s easy to understand why the Valley model is viewed as the ideal. Facebook is worth some $720 billion. Amazon is worth $1.6 trillion. Those are gaudy, attractive destinations for any startup.... View Details
- 30 Apr 2025
- News
A Social Enterprise Talk in DC; Canadian Alumni Talk Trade; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Colorado
HBS? Professor Youngme Moon’s final session in the Advanced Management Program, which focused on Amazon but quickly became about much more. Her closing reflections on the meaning of real success, the privilege of pursuing passion, and the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
entrenched player: Amazon vs. Barnes & Noble, Uber vs. the taxi industry, and so on. “Our cases were necessarily snapshots,” he emphasizes, “but we knew we really needed to be in the moving-picture business. Change, change, change. We had... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
serial transformers like Amazon leverage business model innovation so successfully. Redefining Success in America: A New Theory of Happiness and Human Development by Michael Kaufman (MBA 1994) Univ. of Chicago Press Work hard in school,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
savings. We can never say it’s inevitable that E Ink is the winner out of all this. But I do think it is inevitable that digital reading will supplant physical production.” Of its titles available in print and digital formats, Amazon... View Details
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
things like shapes, lines, and colors. So if you ask Google what a dog is, Google Images will offer you billions of results. Google’s not the only one. From Microsoft and Amazon to countless buzzy Valley startups, when someone says they... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
(PublicAffairs) Breakthrough companies like Amazon and Uber have disrupted the old ways and made the economy work better, thanks to technology. At least, that’s how the story of the modern economy is usually told. But the authors show... View Details