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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Retail: Voice-Activated, One-Hour-Delivery Shopping
devices. And this year, we started using our voice to shop. Amazon launched that trend with Alexa, and recently Google and Walmart announced they are teaming up to do the same thing. We are in the early days of this digital commerce—it... View Details
- 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
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- 23 Oct 2019
- News
A Bid for the Future
sense, and that would still be a huge boon to the community that won the bid. But when the RFP landed in his inbox at the Virginia Economic Development Partnership (VEDP) later that same afternoon in September 2017, Moret found that View Details
- 12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 12 Sep 2018
- Webinars: Trending@HBS
Responding to Digital Disruption
As a follow-up to his 2017 webinar and building upon his proposed recipe for digital disruption, Associate Professor Thales Teixeira proposes a new framework to help established businesses respond to digital disruptors. View Details
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Sponsors | New Venture Competition
Sponsors The New Venture Competition thanks its sponsors for their tremendous support which enables participants to access expert resources, test their ideas, and gain real-world feedback throughout the process. Amazon Web Services All... 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
- Career Coach
Maggie Yang
Experience: KPMG, ofo (Series E+ mobility-tech start-up, joined U.S. founding team), VIPKid (Series E+ ed-tech start-up, led U.S. Global Business Development and founded/GMed new business unit), Amazon (Corporate Business Development... View Details
- Career Coach
Celia Chen
Having worked at McKinsey for 5 years in fintech and consumer/retail industries and Amazon as a senior product manager responsible for launching a new service, Celia is happy to speak to students interested in any of the fields. She can... View Details
- Career Coach
Susan Wu
particularly well-equipped to help in 3 areas: 1) understanding a less traditional path in banking, specifically the intersection of banking with governments; 2) big tech recruiting: understanding how to recruit for big tech companies and the variety of roles; 3)... View Details
Leonard S. Riggio
the Barnes & Noble superstore concept with an in-store coffee shop and spacious reading alcoves. In addition, Riggio launched Barnes & Noble.com to compete with Amazon for on-line book sales and launched a successful video game... View Details
Keywords: Retail
- Career Coach
Nathan Lasche
Nathan interned in Product Management at Amazon and was the Co-President of the HBS TechMedia club. Prior to HBS, he spent two years in Uganda starting the Clinton Foundation HIV / AIDS Initiative’s country office, worked in feature film... View Details
- 26 Oct 2015
- News
Ron Johnson’s Post-Penney’s Rebirth
customer experience," Johnson tells the magazine. "It’s better than a store, it’s the same price as online, and it’s faster than even Amazon Prime." Johnson also recounts the story behind his 2013 exit from JC Penney: The changes,... View Details
- 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
- 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
Arjun Chopra
services company, where he launched and led their cloud business. He was a member of the board and executive team that raised multiple rounds of financing. He led 350+ people, managed 200M hours of uptime in the public cloud and was recognized as one of 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
- Profile
Jessica Kramer
Each curious click captures information; when people purchase, the team gets a percentage of the sale through its Amazon Associates account. “It’s the perfect lean-start up prototype for this project,” Jessica says, “because View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Case Study: Power Nappy
Illustration by Alvaro Dominguez Before she had a baby of her own, Amrita Saigal (MBA 2014) kept hearing from friends that the “natural” diapers on the market didn’t hold up as well as the old standards, like Pampers. Trained as a mechanical engineer, Saigal knew her... View Details
- 05 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: iPads, Kindles, and the Close of a Chapter in Book Publishing
future? Olson has some thoughts—but no easy answers—to those questions. What About The Customer? E-book pricing is one of the biggest sources of friction. In a recent dustup between Amazon and Macmillan, the online retailer briefly... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Elevator Pitch: Bridging the Gap
retailers’ data, Gently leverages AI to predict demand for inventory, placing it at its centers to meet anticipated demand. The Why: Delivery in the United States is bifurcated between Amazon (two days) and other online retailers, 90... View Details