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- 01 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Bad At Your Job? Maybe It's the Job’s Fault
job is self-contained, meaning a person sits at a desk all day without interactions with others, whereas the span of influence will be wide if the person must touch many people, especially others outside the unit, to succeed. A manager at an innovative,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Oct 2022
- What Do You Think?
Have Managers Underestimated the Need for Face-to-Face Contact?
remotely We can get the job done, but it’s tough to flourish.” Similarly, there is growing evidence that changes in some consumer behaviors occasioned by the pandemic are not all that permanent. While Amazon encouraged us to trade off... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 21 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
How to Predict if a New Business Idea is Any Good
venture, which attracted interest from six mentors, a venture that attracted twice as much interest was 27 percent more likely to commercialize (which Shu and her colleagues defined as having multiple repeated sales, an Amazon storefront,... View Details
- 18 Feb 2019
- Book
What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology
“preemptively decoupling.” Instead of waiting to be disrupted, you just break it. When Amazon started selling electronics online, it created apps that encouraged customers to go to a store and check out the prices and products, but order... View Details
- 15 Mar 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
More Than 900 Examples of How Climate Change Affects Business
This word cloud is composed of blog posts by more than 900 students describing how individual organizations are likely to be affected by climate change. Image by Patrick Clapp Last fall, first-year MBA students at Harvard Business School received a new assignment in... View Details
- 17 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why a Blended Workforce May Be Key to Lasting Competitive Advantage
In recent years, companies have been anxious about the lack of skilled workers to fill pivotal jobs. But then came COVID-19 and a subsequent recession. The ensuing business turmoil and record-high unemployment may have temporarily distracted companies from their... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller
- 10 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
How to Get Companies to Make Investments That Benefit Everyone
activity and put in place collective governance. By contrast, Nagle argues, the Amazon rainforest is subject to control by a gatekeeper—Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro, who must weigh national politics with environmental protections... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 10 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink
the existence of bricks-and-mortar stores actually help Amazon and other e-commerce players: they are the perfect place for online shoppers to touch and feel products they are considering purchasing. Store retailers must also compete... View Details
- 18 Sep 2019
- Op-Ed
WeWork—The IPO That Shouldn’t?
corporate leader with a bit of what some call a messiah complex. Facebook, Alphabet, Snap, UBER, Lyft and even Amazon shared one or more of these features, yet none experienced the negative uproar generated by WeWork. "The lessons... View Details
- 01 Mar 2021
- What Do You Think?
What Does Remote Work Mean for Middle Managers?
(iStockphoto/FreshSplash) There seems to be limited interest in middle management or the managers that occupy such positions among those who study management today. Go to Amazon or Google, for example, and check out the number of recent... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 23 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Three-Dimensional Strategy: Winning the Multisided Platform
long-tail products); it is a reseller for items that it sells under its own name and guarantee (these are more likely to be popular products). And Amazon also functions as an input supplier when it offers web hosting and data-processing... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 19 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
Fed Up Workers and Supply Woes: What's Next for Dollar Stores?
such huge growth. They need a lot of people for their distribution centers. We’ve seen, for example, Walmart raise their minimum wage; we’ve seen Amazon raising their minimum wage. Manufacturing wages have jumped significantly. "Here it... View Details
- 30 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Upside of Highlighting a Product's Downsides
wait for care. Patagonia lists the suppliers for each item on its website, while Southwest Airlines’ “transfarency” campaign pledges to save customers from hidden fees. After all, customers are already turning to Google searches and View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 17 May 2016
- First Look
May 17, 2016
how to keep growing, including development of venture capital fund and leveraging of entrepreneur ecosystem. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/815110-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 716-402 Amazon.com, 2016 On January 28, 2016, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 May 2014
- Op-Ed
The Alibaba Effect
transactions. A combination of Amazon and eBay, it holds an 80 percent share of the e-commerce market in the world's second largest economy. Its net income for 2013 was four times more than in 2012. Its products and services lie at the... View Details
- 09 Feb 2018
- Research & Ideas
Big Hits: The Best of the 2018 Super Bowl Ads
partisanship, and/or conscious neglect, as they presented their brands as heroic substitutes stepping in to provide services (e.g., clean water, cancer research funding) traditionally provided by nations, states, and/or NGOs. Click to watch. Still others such as Sprint... View Details
- 19 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy
at times in the form of subsidies. For example, Amazon provides discounts on its e-reader prices for customers who agree to receive targeted ads from Amazon and third-party sellers on their devices. Higher... View Details
- 20 Aug 2024
- Book
Why Competing With Tech Giants Requires Finding Your Own Edge
resources—be it the myriad Amazon product reviews, a rich collection of free videos on YouTube, or Google’s open-source algorithms. Thanks to these tech giants, a significant portion of your ecosystem is already established and readily... View Details
- 09 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It: Digital CEO Buys Traditional Media!
companies have more experience with self-cannibalization than Amazon. Several years ago, it announced its Fulfillment by Amazon strategy. Just when it had created an impressive warehousing and logistics operation, it opened up these... View Details
- 19 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
Can companies bet that a reunion would last? Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/717035-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 518-056 Amazon Buys Whole Foods The June 2017 news that e-commerce giant View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman