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- 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
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Capitalizing the Corner Shop
Amazon of Africa”; at the time of its IPO last April, it was valued at $1.3 billion. A year later, Kehinde and fellow Jumia executive Ercin Eksin went on to found Africa Courier Express (ACE), a logistics company meant to meet the growing... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Case Study: Tip the Scale
find another way to scale an assembly-line process? The Answers: Has Walden considered an Amazon approach, with additional procedures for a customer’s second and possibly third choices, in case inventory does not match a customer’s first... View Details
- 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
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
stick needs to be emphasized a little bit more. Unilever announced that they're going to spend a billion euros attempting to align their products with their customer's values. They're spending that money on ways to cut fossil fuels from their detergents. In response to... 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
- 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 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
- 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
- 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 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Unlocking Innovation: A Leader's Guide to Turning Bold Ideas Into Tangible Results By Robyn Bolton (MBA 2005) Page Two Press Only 1 in every 50,000 incubated ideas reaches $1 million in sales. If you ask most corporate executives why their... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
In 2017, Sarah Bond’s boss, Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox Gaming, warned her that working in the industry would be very difficult. Not just for the usual reasons that corporate America can be tough, but also because, as a Black woman in gaming—an industry with a... View Details
- 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)
- 19 Dec 2024
- News
The Musts of 2024
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. I love these end-of-the-year lists where you can get recommendations from smart people about things that are worth your time and money. It always sets me up really... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
acquired by Amazon for nearly $1 billion. The acquisition was viewed with amazement by those unfamiliar with the young and rapidly growing sector. But a year later esports achieved a milestone traditional US sports fans could understand.... 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
- 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
- 29 Apr 2025
- News
Challenge Accepted
vacations in the early 1990s to areas like the Amazon and Rwanda, Grantham and his family all noticed the dramatic impact of human development on the environment—and a few years later, the reality of climate change. In 1997, Grantham... View Details