Jeff Bezos - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Feb 2001
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What Makes a Good Leader

in business. There has been an explosion of books, articles, instructional tapes, and CD-ROMs aimed at defining, analyzing, and honing the qualities that have raised the likes of Jack Welch, Bill Gates, and Jeff View Details

Keywords: Management

03 Oct 2017
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Can Bezos’s Ties to Boston—and HBS—Seal the Deal?

In the battle to land Amazon’s second American headquarters, Boston may have an historical advantage with CEO Jeff Bezos. A recent Boston Globe article details Bezos ties to the area, which began with a... View Details

Keywords: Retail Trade

01 Mar 2012
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Learning to Speak the Language of Business

Mikitani Main article: Where Innovation Rules Case study: Englishnization at Rakuten From Pinterest to Kobo, how Japan's Rakuten is building a global internet giant (Wired.co.uk) You might call Hiroshi Mikitani (MBA 1993) the Jeff View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; e-commerce; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

03 Oct 2019
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Skydeck Live: Galactic Returns

Unless we have colonies elsewhere than on earth, there is a time that humanity could disappear. That’s the doom scenario. There is a talk by Jeff Bezos on that... For those of you who haven’t seen it, I... View Details

Keywords: Space Research and Technology; Government

09 Dec 2021
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Higher Returns

companies. We're talking Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Mary Barra of General Motors and Larry Fink of BlackRock and Brian Moynihan from Bank of America and Tim Cook from Apple and Robert Smith from Vista Equity... View Details

13 Dec 2017
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Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?

you think got the most mentions? Elon Musk for how innovative he is. Across the board. This really does not discriminate by who voters were. Number two was Warren Buffett. I will tell you, after that, it was shocking. They could barely come up with somebody. View Details

01 Dec 2012
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From Where We Stand

remained close to his roots and invested in his hometown of Omaha. I also respect leaders who are wholly focused on their customers, like Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com, Tony Hsieh of Zappos, and Leon Gorman at... View Details

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