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  • 06 Dec 2017
  • What Do You Think?

Is It Time To Break Up Amazon, Apple, Facebook, or Google?

our country as ‘zombie’ towns, each state may have a larger part in how Amazon operates.” Guy Higgins pointed out distinctions between practices used to gain market power in the past and present. “Standard Oil was an abusive monopoly,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology; Web Services
  • 01 Mar 2018
  • News

Every Trick in the Book

advantageous prices with publishers and offer deep discounts to customers. Analysts sounded the death knell for independent bookstores—and indeed, all physical bookstores—yet again. And this time it seemed as though they had finally gotten it right. In 1993, before... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 08 Mar 2022
  • Blog Post

Recalling My First Cold Call: A Conversation with Second-Year Students

Entrepreneurship Club, and the Women In Investing Club. After graduation she will be joining Amazon as a senior technical product manager in Amazon Web Services (AWS), where she completed her internship last... 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
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Green Technology
  • 02 Aug 2017
  • What Do You Think?

Summing Up: Why Can’t Organizations Engage Their Employees?

judged or rewarded on the engagement levels of their charges? The challenge begins with hiring the right people. When Amazon announces, as it did last month, that it plans to hire 50,000 people in one day into an organization with about... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 01 Mar 2024
  • News

The Internet's Next Frontier

While the Crypto, Fintech, and Web3 Lab—one of 13 labs contained within Harvard’s Digital Data Design Institute—might not have the Bunsen burners and test tubes found in science and engineering labs, it does share a philosophical construct: it is a sandbox—an... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
  • 07 Apr 2015
  • News

Warrior Spirit

player,” he says, citing Amazon and Alibaba; Apple and Samsung; Twitter and Weibo. “America has just 320 million people. Yes, GDP per capita is higher, but Asia is growing by leaps and bounds. If you localize and execute a proven US... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Technical and Trade Schools; Educational Services
  • 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
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Accommodations; Financial Services
  • 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
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Beauty & Cosmetics; Insurance; Service; Retail
  • 12 Jan 2023
  • News

‘Debiasing’ Debt with Data

lending process driven solely by data. Working for Amazon in Seattle at the time, he went to some data-scientist friends armed with 1.2 million Small Business Association (SBA) loan records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
  • 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
  • 11 May 2022
  • Blog Post

MoMBAs: The Inspiring Student Mothers of HBS

section threw me a baby shower (see photo below) and many folks who attended told me this was their first baby shower ever! It’s so fun to be able to share this exciting moment in life with the HBS community. Somani Patnaik Year: First Due Date: May 26, 2022 Pre-HBS... View Details
  • 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
Keywords: by Rajiv Lal & Jose B. Alvarez; Retail
  • 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
Keywords: by Nori Gerardo Lietz; Financial Services; Real Estate
  • 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
  • Web

Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Corporate Change , April 2020) with Yanis Ozcan. Robert S. Huckman : Received the 2021 Robert F. Greenhill Award. Robert S. Huckman : Winner of the 2021 Wyss Award for Excellence in Doctoral Student Mentoring. Himabindu Lakkaraju : Recipient of a 2021 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
  • 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
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Retail
  • 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
  • 01 Mar 2023
  • News

Step Change

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 Careem for $3.1 billion in... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Abdelrahman Gabr – Koree; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
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