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- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 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
- 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 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Web
2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
Digital platforms like Amazon and Facebook evoke strong emotions. Supporters highlight their ability to democratize and personalize access to goods, services, and information in ways previously unimaginable. Critics, however, focus on... View Details