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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Monaco's Digital Transformation
launch 5G, and it recently introduced Monaco Cloud, the software, services, and security systems that power the country’s computers and facilitate data storage. While it was created in partnership with Amazon and Dell, Monaco Cloud is... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 09 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Overcoming the Challenges of Selling Brand New Technology (Hey, Need a 3-D Printer?)
focused on selling software to engineers and designers and might not be as committed to selling hardware, which cost less and offered a lower commission. Selling on Amazon was the easiest option of all, but meant sacrificing 12 to 18... View Details
- 31 May 2016
- HBS Case
Who Owns Space?
itself and the public sector can piggyback on it, that’s a pretty efficient and sustainable model” The Blue Origin case focuses on the aerospace engineering company Jeff Bezos began in 2000, just six years after founding Amazon. As his success with View Details
- 14 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Deflategate and the Sustained Success of the New England Patriots
tremendous things,” Iansiti says. “If you go after a static, traditional environment and drive a new model of competition, you’re going to do really well. Take Google and advertising, or take Amazon and retail, and you can see... View Details
- 13 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
Can AI Save Physicians from Burnout?
content. In 2022, Amazon introduced Amazon Clinic, a virtual health care service using AI to provide affordable treatment for common conditions. In October 2023, 10,000 clinicians and staff at the Permanente... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Robots to the Rescue
Mountz Photo courtesy Kiva Systems Kiva's robots in action Main article: Where Innovation Rules In the News: Boston Globe: Amazon Buys Kiva for $775M Those who know Mick Mountz (MBA 1996) well were not overly surprised when he started a... View Details
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/518066-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 118-074 Whole Foods Under Amazon In August 2017, Amazon acquired Whole Foods Market for $13.7 billion. Whole Foods was... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Charitable Organizations Can Thwart Excuses for Not Giving
says. “We wanted to see if just making the notion salient that your donation could be better would be sufficient to trigger an excuse not to give at all.” Using the online marketplace Amazon Mechanical Turk, Exley and Kessler set up an... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Pricing Paradise
time to complete it, according to an audit). “We can never fully value natural capital,” she adds, citing the Amazon rain forest’s “carbon sink” role as an example. Still she hopes that providing a wider lens for viewing the parks’ total... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 07 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship with the City of Boston
Kiernan Schmitt (MBA 2018) is a 2017 Social Enterprise Summer Fellow working with the City of Boston Department of Innovation and Technology this summer. Imagine if, when it came to delivering city services online, your local government thought like a Silicon Valley... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Eyes in the Skies
machine-learning algorithms running on massive on-demand cloud-computing platforms like Amazon Web Services. At the same time, a trifecta of trends—namely, the widespread reliance on just-in-time inventory management; the ongoing... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 17 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?
You want people to touch your product and actually get the brand experience. You could get to a point where stores like Best Buy become just showrooms and fulfillment is done by Amazon because they are much more efficient at it. I could... View Details
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
business owners to understand their own cash flow and prospects. Now the fintech innovation cycle is at an inflection point—new streams of data have the power to illuminate the opaque nature of a small business’s finances. The playing field is wide open, with... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
Curbing an Unlikely Culprit of Rising Drug Prices: Pharmaceutical Donations
stakeholders, including the patients these charities are ostensibly designed to help,” the paper says. You Might Also Like: Can Amazon Remake Health Care? Why COVID-19 Probably Killed More People Than We Realize Lessons from COVID-19: The... View Details
- 20 Aug 2018
- Research & Ideas
Bargain Hunters Beware: A Store's 'Original Price' Might Not Be After All
on Amazon has a struck-out price, but if you look at the policy behind that price, it’s incredibly vague,” he says. Consumers have even brought class-action suits against retailers including JCPenney, Sears, Macy’s, and Kohl’s for their... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
(Tambor) coming out to his family as transgender, was only available via streaming to members of Amazon Prime’s Instant Video service. The show also took home the award for Best TV Series, Musical or Comedy, marking the first time an... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Podcasts Engage New Audiences with HBS
technology for creating podcasts, videos, and webinars. During the pandemic, podcasts are being recorded remotely. Popular Episodes Walmart’s Strategy to Beat Amazon; and Millennial Socialism Three professors discuss how Walmart is trying to compete against View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Getting New Ideas off the Ground
company called Firefly, and we pioneered personalization on the internet. We were responsible for inventing something called collaborative filtering. If you go to Amazon and it recommends books, or if you go to Netflix and it recommends... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Evolution of Modern Pricing Models
necessarily beneficial for e-commerce vendors. What led you to make that argument? TT: Amazon has been a leader in the idea of reducing friction in shopping. One click, you’ve bought your books. So other companies also wanted to reduce... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
HBS Alumni Explore Tanzania
Alumni Excursions Bhutan Oct 2004 South Africa and Namibia Dec 2004 Swiss Alps Feb 2005 Costa Rica April 2005 Galapagos and Amazon August 2005 New Zealand Dec 2005 For more information, contact alumni_travel@hbs.edu. View the HBS Alumni... View Details